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7 Scientific Reasons You'll Turn Out Just Like Your Parents
#3. You Will Stop Trying to Change the World (If You Are a Man)
There are few things as frightening to a well-toned 20-something male as the sight of his balding, soft-bellied dad, his body pulverized and out of shape from years of being a hardworking dude. Surely it's just complacency, right? You'll make sure never to let the world beat you like that. You'll push HARD, work HARD and damn well have the body of a male stripper well into your 70s.
A sad case of sudden onset rigor mortis. He hasn't moved for days.
And even sadder is the attitude of these old middle-management types -- guys who were hard-driving badasses in their 20s, only to turn into bored, soft, middle-aged golf enthusiasts at 45. We'll never be like those losers! They sold out, man, and we're gonna keep it real.
But Over Time ...
There's a common conception that men "think with their dicks," but that's a crude and insulting stereotype. We should be looking just a half an inch lower, to their balls.
If you trace almost any problem back far enough, you end up at a sweaty pair of balls.
More specifically, it's all about testosterone, the hormone men have to thank for a lot of their drive and physique. You probably already know that testosterone is what shapes the male body in puberty in terms of increased muscle mass, deeper voice, hair growth and sexual virility. What people lose track of is that these changes continue through your life -- testosterone levels peak around age 40, and then start to go down.
And as hard as you may try to prevent it, it takes that rock-hard physique away with it. This is why that wobbly belly becomes harder and harder to lose and why things like muscle aches and increased daytime fatigue start to occur. And with that come changes in your attitude. A low testosterone level can be unconsciously emotionally devastating for men, and symptoms include increased irritability, depression and lack of motivation.
On the positive side, embracing change means increased airflow around the groin area.
The condition is called the "andropause," the male version of the poorly named menopause that women experience, and this is most likely the driving reason why the male midlife crisis kicks in and men start either fighting the process with superficial changes (like sports cars, fashion changes or trying to start a rap career) or just settle in with the slippers and hot drink and damn well accept it.
"Look, boy, I felt the same. And then I realized Susan in Desperate Housewives really had it harder than all of us."
#2. You Will Find Yourself Eating Bland Food, Because You Can't Taste It
You like to think that your taste in food only gets better as you get older. You wouldn't eat the bullshit you see a toddler eating, all sugary drinks and frozen chicken nuggets shaped like cartoon characters. And when you hit 30, you look back at the all-burrito-and-pizza diet of your college years with equal disgust. Your tastes get more sophisticated, and by middle age, you're growing your own herbs and have memorized the precise number of seconds a steak must remain on the grill in order to be perfect.
So why is it that old people wind up eating the same horrible crap every night? You see them lined up at all-you-can-eat buffet places that serve bland chicken and mashed potatoes. You might think that it's some holdover from the Great Depression, when they got a taste for stale bread, porridge and the dust from the window frames. But this will never happen to you, right?
Because dust is so damn classy and expensive now.
But Over Time ...
It isn't really through choice that our diets get blander as we get older. Old people just can't taste shit, and it's mostly because of dry mouth. As you get older, your mouth produces less saliva, and saliva is actually essential for taste because it breaks down the food and washes it over your taste buds.
"I taste only the bitterness of a wasted life eating muesli."
Older people also tend to simply lose their appetites, and with it the joy of eating. So where a tasty meal used to be the highlight of your day when you were young, it eventually becomes a chore, especially when a dry slice of toast tastes the same as chicken fettuccine. The toast has the advantage of being easier to prepare, so it always wins out.
#1. Your Memories of the Past Will Become "The Good Old Days"
Why is it when people get older they seem incapable of getting their brains out of the past? There's a reason why we love to laugh at Grandpa Simpson -- lots of old people are exactly like him, rambling through their life story and how everything was better back in the day when they had to risk catching polio just to get breakfast.
Is it because the world really has gone to hell in their time? Or, like all the rest of the things on this list, is it just biological change messing with their heads?
"We used to fear the robot uprising until we got these chips in our brains. Life is better now."
But Over Time ...
As crazy as it sounds, the tendency for old people to ramble on about the past may actually have been programmed into them by evolution. And that means you'll do it, too, once your cave dweller DNA kicks in.
See, nostalgia actually has an evolutionally beneficial purpose in that it stimulates a natural antidepressant in the brain. As we get older, this reflex only becomes more pronounced. The weight and stresses of life mount up with age and added responsibility, and so having a larger amount of life experience to reminisce over helps the brain calm itself and allow us to continue existing.
Unfortunately, hyenas are immune to hard-hitting war stories.
Back in prehistoric times, the risk of becoming depressed in your cold, dank cave without so much as basic cable would have been a death sentence in a world where you had to fight cougars for your lunch. The survivors in this world would have been the ones who kept up the drive to keep at it year after year. It would be a great benefit if growing older came with some kind of defense mechanism against misery. Unfortunately for everyone else in the cave, this mechanism turned out to be rambling about the good old days to anyone who would listen.
"This story is important because it happened to me."
It's all part of the circle of life, though, that just as your granddad annoys you with the same stories over and over again, so too will you annoy your grandkids in the same way, all in the name of the survival of your species.
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Elements of the Australian defence industry are crying a river because the current government is incompetent (just like the last one) yet they look toward the moronic Defence White Paper of 2009 as if it is the crown jewels. Interesting; they seem to avoid talking less about the cancer that is the DMO and friends.
They want a 4th air warfare destroyer—which we do not need–and are deluded enough to think that Australia can make its own Collins-class sub replacement.
Since Australia refuses to pursue a true air domination mission, things like the air warfare destroyer will only see a watery grave if there is a big battle. So what about helping out U.S. aircraft carriers? Same thing here because the air wing that flies off of those will be obsolete unless hope-of-hopes UCAS-N becomes oh-so-incredible.
High-speed ship killers now proliferating in the region also don't make for a happy thought. AEGIS meet your end with discovery on the horizon and the clock running. How ready is Defence to deal with this kind of technology launched from land, sea, air and underwater? It is very, very fast. Will Nulka save the day? Roll the dice. When you have real air domination assets you get into these bad situations less. Even with that, what about this threat model? It is doubtful that an "air warfare destroyer"—which is not—has much capability here except as a range target.
Also without real air domination, ASW aircraft can't fly in all the places you want them. This takes out part of our defence against submarines.
And what about our subs? Too few and too faulty. We need real Defence leadership to push Industry to produce a large number of low manpower (20 some crew) and very simple submarines. Forget the gold-plated do everything unaffordables. Defence/Industry impotence won't deliver. What these people want is a path of doom.
Along with building simple subs, the pump should be primed by purchasing something off the shelf. It is this or given current performance with the sub sorrow, risk having yet another ineffective and expensive sub fleet.
What do we need from these people? In order to make them effective we again must have real leadership from Defence. Without that, our industry is just going to be a mediocrity because it has poor requirements thrown at it; over and over along with poor oversight.
We need to follow the only good thing about the Defence White Paper of 2009. That is to build more frigates; and not overly complex ones either. A similar size and capability to the ones we have will be fine.
Yes industry seems to be in trouble. If they want to be activist about it, they need to criticise not political parties but the entrenched Defence bureaucracy which is leading them to ruin. Once there are capable people in the Defence bureaucracy, they in turn can lead the politicians down the proper path.
Unskilled politicians—they aren't all stupid–see a poorly managed Defence bureaucracy for what it is and see the banner held high which is the project of concern list. DMO is incompetent; senior Defence is rudderless. Cry about that.

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text: There are three characters that I am going to submit from a show that is gaining popularity. I know it is becoming popular because I have been getting requests for three figures from the series. The show is called "Dan Vs", and it airs on The Hub Network. To start, I will teach you "how to draw Dan", step by step. Dan reminds me a lot of Al Bundy from "Married with Children" because they are two guys that seem to be mad at the world, and often hold grudges against everyone and everything. The truth is, like Al, Dan is a soft hearted guy that is very sensitive when it comes to family and friends. His look and style is sort of grungy, and he is also considered to be the hero of the series. I don't know too much about Dan, but I can certainly show you "how to draw Dan Vs" easily. I do believe that you will have fun with this tutorial and because the characters belong together, I will submit them in order. Have fun people and be sure to keep those requests rolling in. Adios mi amigos!


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The original version of this recipe calls for pork belly, which, I have to admit, I have never had. But, I imagine it would be kind of chewy and crispy. So, I have substituted crispy tofu. This recipe is also heavy on the cilantro, so cut back or eliminate it altogether if you don't like cilantro's unique flavour.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Five Spice Tofu
10 comments:
- chow vegan said...
We're on the same wavelength again. I just posted a baked 5 spice tofu. Too funny. Yours looks great! :-)
- May 13, 2008 at 1:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
What did you serve with this?
- May 13, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- John Plummer said...
I am sure that I am going to like this!
- May 13, 2008 at 8:14 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Chow Vegan,
Great minds, etc., etc.
This was part of a Thai feast trio. I served this dish with Sweet Potato and Cashew Curry, and Green Tofu Curry, and jasmine rice.
- May 13, 2008 at 8:41 AM
- Vegan Invasion! (Ashley Nicole) said...
MMM, that really looks mouth watering!
- May 13, 2008 at 8:52 AM
- Animal-Friendly said...
I love five spice- this recipe looks great!
- May 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
i love chinese five spice. i remember the first time i stuck it on tofu. that was a good meal.
your tofu looks flippin awesome and i hauled it all the way to the asian market today to get hoison sauce to make your green curry and fritters this week and will have to add this tofu dish to the liiiiiiiist...
damn you, how will i ever get the cookbook done? HMM? ;)
- May 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
We made this last night. It was fantastic! My son (who has tofuphobia) enjoyed it too. Cutting the tofu thin and frying it gave it a chewy(er) texture, which is what I think he liked. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
- May 16, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- Jay said...
This looks very yummy!
- May 17, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- Healthy Harmony said...
I made this last night and served it over a bed of rice noodles and steamed broccoli and asparagus. It was a big hit and the baby (1 1/2 y.o.) ate her whole plate. I replaced sugar for xyletol and fried the tofu with coconut oil. Great recipe, keep up the good work!
- February 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM


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I have looked all over Google and everyone says he's in the Icecrown Citadel but I can't find him anywhere. Where exactly can I find him?
The Lich King can actually be found in many different places, including the Death Knight starter zone, several 5-man dungeons and appears as a result of many quests in Icecrown Citadel. If you level normally throughout the "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion, you will encounter him on several occasions.
To actually battle him, you need up to 25 other players in the Icecrown Citadel raid instance. For him to properly spawn, all three wing Guardians (Sindragosa, Blood-Queen Lana'thel and Professor Putricide) must be downed. Doing so allows you to teleport to him through the center of the Citadel. I believe even if you somehow got up to the top of the Citadel, he will not spawn unless those preconditions are met.
The Lich King is the final boss in the raid instance of Icecrown Citadel. Icecrown Citadel is located within the Icecrown zone - are you sure you're actually inside the dungeon, and not simply in the zone with the similar name?
The Lich King is inside of the IceCrown Citadel, in the Icecrown Zone of Northrend. Once you clear the other quarters, the final bosses of each Quarter make it possible to kill the Lich King. You will find him in the Upper Spire. Once you get there you can use teleporter at entrance if you need to go get more people to help you with him. Once you walk in the upper spire and go through another portal type device, you will be in a room with Highlord Tirion Fordring, and the Lich King on his frozen throne. Speaking with Tirion will start the The Lich King Fight
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Discussion in 'Science Fiction' started by Werthead, Jul 9, 2011.
Book 1: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
Book 2: Better Than Life
Oh, I loved that show, what I got to see of it. I might have to take a look at the novels if you really think they're good, Wert.
it got real complex with the novels. One of them can't write, and wrote one of them alone. You have to check. That is all.
Well, it's not that complicated. The order is:
1: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
2: Better Than Life by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
3: Backwards by Rob Grant alone
And #1 and #2 are only available in a joint omnibus edition now anyway.
Doug Naylor then wrote another book in a different continuity altogether, called LAST HUMAN. Luckily, that book is absolutely terrible and can safely be ignored.
That's the synopsis yes. Sorry if I over dramatized checking there. I didn't really want to visit my shelves and find last human.
"Luckily?" Why "luckily?"
because it's off story arc, costs money, and is so bad that now you know all this you can safely not buy or read it.
Hmmmm. Well, whatever. Seems like a funny position for a book reviewer to take. Personally I find myself "lucky" when I get a good book.
Ive watched every episode of that show... except for the US pilots, been meaning to track them down.
The first 5 or so series were good, but quickly went downhill after that. (I dont remember the exact one). Basically they eventually ran into some nano machines or something, which created a copy of the ship, including all of the original crew who died millions of years back. When Dave and Lister went back they ended up in prison for whatever reasons. For awhile that worked to revive the show, them always scheming to escape... but got boring. After that it sucked. And the 3 ep Back to Earth was horrid. Bad lines and no humor.
So if the books are more like the earlier shows I might give them a try.
BTW, I hear they are bringing back the show with Red Dwarf X, airing in 2012?
well in that case give it a try...
I lost interest as soon as I read the waking up in 3,000,000 years.
Hilarious!!!! I love this series both the books and on TV. Really funny characters, excellent one-liners, definately British humour at its best.
Oh, it's comedy sci-fi!
Pretty sure its got a cat that evolves into a man.....or something.
yeah it does, i'd DEFINITELY put it in the comedy, pseudo-science-fantasy, budget brit humour niche psik.
or something similar to that maybe.
no laughs in one of the books though.
Really good novels. Brilliant TV series pretty much all of it on YouTube:
Series 2 better than series 1 I think.
Four books
Friends of mine from way back when introduced me to Red Dwarf.
I OWE them.
The first two books were definitely worth it, especially laundry night for Cat in book one. I laughed for maybe an hour.
(I was eighteen at the time)
I only recently found out about books three and four, (about the same time I someone reminded me of the sixth hitchhiker book--it was the sixth, right?) and while I now have them, courtesy of the $1.04 price and free shipping via Borders (woo-hoo!), I won't say if they're any good. The Grant Naylor relationship exploded between books two and three. Which is why there's four books written by "three" people.
Even if Last Human is terrible, I still look forward to reading it.
The series was great stuff, too. Very not Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but still very funny. There's room in the world for a second funny sci-fi satire.
I have all the DVDs, and now my son watches them. And I read all the books, which I really enjoyed. However, the lack of continuity between the books and TV shows (although common enough) is a little disconcerting at times. Scenes often crop up in the books that appear in the TV shows, but within different storylines. Basically, scenes they had written (and liked) for the shows were then popped into the books, but not necessarily in the same context.
Considering the shows were a hit, they could have just novelised them, with extra bits obviously.
Anyway, they are worth a read if you like easy-reading sci-fi.
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Qatar Petroleum (QP), in partnership with Qatars
Ministry of Interior (MOI), will open a new college dedicated
to emergency and safety professions at Ras Laffan Industrial
City, officials announced on Monday.
The Ras Laffan Emergency & Safety College (RLESC) will
open on November 12 of this year. It will offer internationally
recognized as well as professional vocational qualifications
courses and programs in Fire Safety Engineering and Fire Safety
Qatar leaders said the college will be a premier safety
academy spread over 100 hectares and equipped with ultra-modern
The RLESC is designed to be one of the largest and
most advanced education and training institutions in the
region, serving not only companies and individuals in Qatar but
also those in the greater Middle East, North Africa and
Asia," said Mr. Khalid Ahmed Al-Ansari, manager of the
"The college is a testament of our resolve to become a hallmark
of emergency safety training, and its primary objective is to
educate and train professionals to internationally recognized
qualification and standards in a variety of areas, he
These areas include the oil and gas sector, petrochemical industries, marine,
civil aviation, civil defence, industrial fire fighting,
emergency medical services, hazardous materials, search and
rescue, among others.
The RLESC will offer a large selection of
educational options comprising of vocational training courses
and academic programs, with students allowed to enroll in fire
safety management or fire safety engineering diploma and degree
programs. Plans for the future include degrees in safety, environment, occupational health,
business continuity, incident management, and other related
Applicants can enroll in single training courses on a
specific field of study, or in full-time academic degrees. The
first academic degrees will be available starting September
The Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is the
training provider of the RLESC. TEEX is internationally
acclaimed in the area of advanced practical emergency and
safety training. In addition, all RLESC courses and degrees are
accredited by the National Board on Fire Service Professional
Qualifications (ProBoard) in the US.
RLESC also has the support of Texas A&M University at
Qatar, which is the current research partner of the
college in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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Are you planniing to start Safety Engineering degree course this year? I am planning to put my son for the same who has just comppeted 12th Standard Examination
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Is there any post graduate diploma available. What is duration and fee? Inform eligibility and fee structure
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$SU(n)$ acts freely on $\Bbb C^n\setminus 0$ (not on $\Bbb C^n$) for $n=1,2$, but not for higher $n$ (the stabilizer of a point is $SU(n-1)$). If this is what you are asking about, the answer is "yes". (This IS a basic question, though.)
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Clothespin Hang-Ups
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Cover work area with newspapers. Mix paints and pour into muffin pans or paper cups. Punch holes in upper corners of poster board. Paint over poster board until all or most of it is covered. While the poster board is drying, paint the clothespins too. When the clothespins are dry, glue them onto the poster board. Let the glue dry and then thread some of the yarn through the holes in the clothespins that are next to each other. Tie yarn leaving a loop between clothespins. Now your child has a bulletin board on which to hang things and clip papers. Attach the poster board to a wall via the punched holes.
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Coilover Front Suspension Install - The CC DemonWritten by Douglas R. Glad on August 8, 2011 Installing the front suspension
"Before getting started, the vehicle must be 100 percent complete." That is the first line in the instructions for measuring the baseline spring rate on a Chris Alston's drag race 2x3 A-arm suspension and frameclip. Not that we read directions, but this one seemed important, so we thought we'd mention it. What the guys at Chassisworks meant was the car must have everything installed, and it should be running, full of gas, and feature a driver behind the wheel before adjusting the suspension.
In the July '11 issue, we welded such a frame kit onto our swap meet Demon to get the front end to work with the previously back-halved rear and to add some needed adjustability to the suspension. In the process, we gained total control over the shock rate and spring preload and the ability to place the engine almost anywhere in the chassis, and we dropped some pounds off the nose of the car. Since the car is not yet complete, we aren't ready to turn any wrenches on shock collars or rod ends, but we can tell you what we've already gained, and more important, why.
Front Suspension Install - Weight Transfer
We are building this car purely for your entertainment (and ours) and therefore it will not be entered into any official racing class. That means we can run the car as light as we want. Racers who are constrained by rules also need to be as light as possible, allowing them to use any additional weight as ballast.
Without the engine and transmission, the Demon weighed about 1,850 pounds. After we cut the stock front end off and added the new 2x3 frame and a 'glass hood and deck, the car weighed about 1,550 pounds. That 300 pounds is worth 0.30 second at the track, and we haven't even turned the key.
60-foot and R/T
Using a handicap or Sportsman Tree, the time between the last amber going dark and the start bulb going green is 0.500 second. Each hundredth of a second after that just adds humiliation. On a Pro Tree, the difference is only 0.400 second. Pro racers need to get out of the starting beam quickly, improving their reaction time, and get to the finish line first. To do this, a pro car will limit front suspension travel or adjust the spring rate and shock valving to yank the tire out of the beams. That combined with a violent motor and a light chassis will yield a fast but less consistent race car. For the dial-in racer, the reaction time needs to be combined with consistent e.t. for round wins. A driver can use rollout math to anticipate how long it takes for the tire to leave the beams instead of using violence, which will result in consistently faster times and more wins. The adjustable front suspension lets you pick how the car leaves the line.
Front Suspension Install - Shocks (Dampers) and Springs
Racing is trial and error. The difference between a monster wheelstand and porpoising all over the track is in the settings on the shocks and the rate of the springs. Without getting too far into the theory of a spring's potential energy, we can tell you that preloading a spring will help lift the front end and transfer weight to the rear of the car quicker to improve the 60-foot time.
With this suspension system, spring rates can be easily be changed and springs can be preloaded at the track or shop using an endless number of available parts.
Front Suspension Install - Alignment
The primary concern on a drag car is to get the car to go straight and avoid scrubbing off speed. The standard alignment angles are 6 to 8 degrees of positive caster, zero degrees of camber, and 1⁄8 inch or less toe-in. The greater the amount of positive caster, the heavier the steering will feel, but it will add high-speed stability and help the steering self center. Neutral or negative caster will cause the steering to feel light and unstable at the top end of the track.
The camber setting has to do with the relationship of the top of tire to the bottom of the tire, as seen from the front of the car. In a road race car, there are modifications for camber gain that allow the contact patch to stay flat on a loaded tire in the corners. In a drag car, zero degrees ensures the tire stands up, and that is all you need.
A zero-degree toe setting at ride height will generally cause toe-out under acceleration depending on suspension travel, and it can cause high-speed instability. A 1⁄8-inch toe-in will ensure zero toe when you need it. These settings are the small but effective things that turn an average race car into a great one. You're not going to get 8 degrees of caster out of a stock front end. It's all about adjustability.
Front Suspension Install - What Next?
Installing the front suspension at this point is little more than creating a roller. The weight of the drivetrain is going have an effect on virtually everything going on in the chassis. Therefore, our next step is to work with the eBay Hemi to get it into the car with the transmission, then set the ride height and corner weights and go from there.
Parts List
|Drag race A-arm suspension and frameclip
|Coilover shocks
|Fabricated spindle
|Gasser ET wheels
|Speedway Motors
|Indy slotted mags
|30.00 (each)
|Pinto rack-and-pinion
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The upper control arm features Teflon-lined rod ends for caster and camber adjustments and screw-in ball joints so you don't have to wreck them with a pickle fork when you work on the suspension. The lack of a crossbar makes a lot of room for headers.The lower control arms have replaceable polymer bushings for a more forgiving ride. They also have screw-in ball joints.The heavy power steering unit was sold to another Mopar guy to make room for the ultralight Pinto rack-and-pinion with 3.5 turns lock-to-lock and a total of 5 inches of travel. If we were going to drive this car more than a few miles, we'd pick the Mustang II or Pro-Box system.We chose the fabricated drag race spindles because they weigh only 6.5 pounds each. They also have an integrated bracket for the brakes.The tie rods use spherical rod ends instead of tapered ones, allowing them to be shimmed to eliminate bumpsteer. If you have toe-out at high speeds, the car will be uncontrollable.Left: Again, the ride height should be measured at the frame well before you get to this point in the build. The adjustable shock mounts are designed to determine the eyelet-to-eyelet dimension at ride height.The shock's purpose in a drag car is to keep the tire on the ground. A drag race travel baseline is 40 bump and 60 percent rebound. The selection of this coilover is based on the performance application (lots of power and no weight) and the amount of compression at ride height. It only has 2.80 inches of total travel, so following with what we discussed earlier in the text, this car will jump up out of the lights and take the wheel and tire with it.The double adjuster controls the rate of bump and rebound. This is an at-the-track tuning device to adjust the rate at which the shock controls the spring.
To get more of a vintage Funny Car look, we had the wheels powdercoated at Andrews Powder Coating in Chatsworth, California. The color is Ol' Brass, and it looks just like the old Dow 7 coating from the '60s. Here, Steve Strope from Pure Vision and Sandee Andrews from Andrews Powder Coating lend a hand.We've also been playing with paint ideas. The Harpoon laid on some sidewalk chalk and tape stripes to get us going. Check out the video on CarCraft.com and Facebook.com/drglad.


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I have seen competitive (amateur) cyclists with oval chainrings (front). What is the deal? Are they just for showing off, or is there a practical gain from it (different force transfer).
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In theory they are more efficient.
Throughout the pedal stroke your leg doesn't give an equal amount of force - ideally you want to spend most of the time pushing down with the big thigh muscles and a minimum time in the horizontal movements at the top and bottom of the stroke.
Elliptical front cogs give you a more up-down leg motion, so more time with the big muscles and more power - not sure how much it actually works in practice, or how much practice it takes to make it work.
I cannot trot out the studies from memory now, so take my answer with a big grain of salt. Or as an invitation to do more in-depth research.
When I was actually researching these things several years ago, my conclusions were than the classic oval chainrings were ineffectual in whatever goal they were attempting to reach, while the newer Rotor system actually provided some small benefit on the order of 1-2% better average power.
It seems that right thing to strive for is minimizing the maximal force exerted by the muscles, because the maximal force is correlated with utilization of glycogen (the bigger the force exerted, the greater the proportion of glycogen burned via the inefficient anaerobic pathway). Rotor succeeds in this by flattening the power delivery curve, while the immovable ovals just phase-shift the curve.


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The Carmi-White County High School girls' tennis team improved their record to 3-3 for the 2013 season with a win on their home courts against Benton Thursday, Sept. 19. The team rallied for a score of 8-1 in varsity action and 4-0 in junior varsity play.
Sophomore Tiffany Winkleman stepped up to play in the number one singles slot, staying close early on to Benton's Culbreth, but could not keep up the pace, falling 10-3 in the 10-game set format. Alexa Combs was a quick winner at number two, winning 10-1 while Madison Wheeler topped her opponent at number three with a 10-0 shutout.
Shayle Knight faced a solid player at number four singles, but prevailed 10-3 while Kami Frymire was an easy winner at number five with a score of 10-0. Karrissa Siegel completed the singles roster with a 10-2 win.
In doubles action, Combs and Knight teamed up for a 10-4 win at number one doubles followed by Frymire and Siegel at number two with a score of 10-1. Winkleman and Lexi Wheeler, the only freshman on the team, won at number three doubles with a score of 10-1.
In junior varsity action, the Wheeler girls teamed up for a 6-1 win at doubles. Mackenzie Armstrong played three separate sets of singles, winning all three with scores of 6-0, 6-1, 6-1.
The girls' tennis team is on the road next week with a trip to Fairfield on Tuesday followed by a visit to Carbondale on Wednesday.
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[ 14 March 2013 to 22 March 2013. ]
In our borderline-obsessive quest to cram as many free arts events down our fellow ACTians throats as possible, You Are Here is filling the coveted lunchtime real estate by showcasing a wonderful local band (and the odd award-winning poet) almost every day of the festival.
Lunchbox concerts will be at 1pm (the best lunch is [...]
[ 14 March 2013 to 12 April 2013. ]
Martyo has been sending us amazing photographs for some time now.
He's just sent in the exciting news he's putting on an exhibition:
Ollman's Canberra
Martin left traditional film photography 20 years ago – moved out of photo-
journalism into computing and the internet and never looked back. Then, a year ago, he submerged himself in the digital [...]
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Word has gone forth about The Art of Nature Exhibition at the CSIRO this month:
Works of art featuring birds, beetles, bugs, botanical specimens and beyond, can be seen in this colourful and dynamic exhibition. Established over 14 years ago in Canberra, WABA's goal is to bring artists, scientists and environmentalists together to promote an appreciation [...]
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In May 1912, the entrant 29 won the Federal Capital City Design Competition. This was of course Walter Burley Griffin, you've probably heard of him.
Design 29: Creating a Capital has collected a whole bunch of maps, paintings, and documents from the famous competition, including some pieces that have apparently not been displayed since the original [...]
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Grandmaster Monk
No Hausfrau
Monday 4th 8pm
CMC Presents The Bootleg Sessions
The Bodies
Buck et Al.
Hayley Shone
Tuesday 5th 7:30pm
Andrew and Shannon's Pub trivia
Thursday 7th 9pm
The Second Hand Salmon
Cannery Row
Josh Veneris
Saturday 9th 9:30pm
Bored Nothing
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2XX Local n Live Present The Bootleg Sessions
Bent Hent
The Bus Vipers
Vintage Vulva
Miss Terry
Tuesday 12th 7:30pm
Andrew Galan's Your Favourite Fictional Fascist Trivia
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This looks like a good use of a Sunday Morning:
As the saying goes, a year is a long time in politics!
Behind the Lines 2012 looks back on the highs and lows of the political year through the eyes of Australia's best cartoonists. Their observations of the personalities, parties and political power-plays are insightful, amusing [...]
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Facebook has word on a program of parties planned at local shops around Canberra in March for the centenary:
On 12 March 2013, Parties at the Shops events will be held all over Canberra to celebrate the city's 100th birthday. Come and party with your neighbours!
We're pretty sure that Canberra must be the only city in [...]
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The ABC want you to know they're having a look at the darker side of Canberra:
Nothing much happens in Canberra, never has. That's what most people think. ABC presenter Annabel Crabb is set to change your mind in Canberra [...]
[ 1 March 2013 to 24 March 2013. ] So it's not the Spiegel Tent we're getting, which explains some disquiet. It's a Spiegel Garden. It might be in a tent too.
The Centenary team are letting it be known that the delayed program is now out.
Gosh! Robyn Archer in concert!
The programme – which runs from March 1st to 24th – includes such famous [...]
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The National Gallery have announced a new exhibition:
Vanuatu is very different from other Pacific nations. Traditional practices better known as Kastom remain strong even after a century of dual colonial religious influences. Kastom: Art of Vanuatu presents for the first time the unique collection of arts from this area held by the National Gallery [...]
[ 14 January 2013 to 3 April 2013. ] The Centenary team are letting people know about the foundation treasures of the city which are going on display at Parliament House:
Centenary of Canberra History and Heritage Advisor Dr David Headon today unveiled some of the treasures related to Canberra's 1913 foundation stones and naming ceremonies.
Dr Headon acquired the items on loan from the [...]
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An intriguing exhibition up on the War Memorial website:
The small French village of Vignacourt was always behind the front lines. For much of the First World War it was a staging point, casualty clearing station and recreation area for troops of all nationalities moving up to and then back from the battlefields on the [...]
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The excellent You Are Here festival has announced next year's dates for 10 days of mayhem.
And now, to business. The dates for the 2013 You Are Here festival have been confirmed, and we will be running from Thursday 14 – Sunday 24 March. Begin getting excited, we are.
Secondly, if you're interested in being involved – [...]
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The National Gallery has announced Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge is the big summer drawcard coming up.
'The National Gallery of Australia is excited to bring together Australia's first Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective exhibition, showing only in Canberra. Together with our own collection of works, the exhibition will provide a comprehensive insight into the artistic life of [...]


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Residents are warned to take care outdoors as snow, hail and wind gusts send Tasmania into a big chill.
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Is there any way a pure math guy can get his rigorous math fix while simultaneously moving fusion research forward? Is fusion simply too complicated to take a pure math approach? What open math questions are there pertaining to fusion?
There's a lot of research being done in computational magnetohydrodynamics. This is the study of the flow of ionic fluids, usually in confined magnetic fields. The governing equations of magnetohydrodynamics are a coupling of both the Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. In pure/applied mathematics there is the famous problem of smoothness in solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
Most of the problems in fusion energy are mostly engineering problems but there is still a lot of theoretical work being done.


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I am new to programming, so this question I'm sure is extremely basic (bear with me!)
I just installed zxing into my current xcode 4.5 project. It took me a while to get through the errors, but I finally got it.
I created a button called "scan" where I want zxing to be called. How can I make this happen?
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Many bars (and hotel lobbies) will add a lemon wedge to the top of a glass of soda; often it's used to differentiate between Diet Coke (gets the lemon) and regular Coke (no lemon).
Does this pose a kashrus problem?
Many bars (and hotel lobbies) will add a lemon wedge to the top of a glass of soda; often it's used to differentiate between Diet Coke (gets the lemon) and regular Coke (no lemon).
Does this pose a kashrus problem?
And a warning: if you're trying to impress your date by just quoting my answer here, there's a decent chance she's seen it too by now, so nice try. (But then again, if you're both yodeyans, you're off to a good start ...)
Here are the issues, as I understand them and as I've heard:
Lemons are, according to some, a davar charif. The assumption is that a knife cut can transfer into the thickness of a lemon slice not only what's on the outside of the knife, but even what is absorbed in the knife- even taste that is lifgam (24 hours old), the sharp taste makes it lishvach.
The Shach limits the transfer to what's in the knife's outer edge, since lemons are not so strong.
The Rema permits lemons that come in a barrel, if such is the minhag. The Shach says that it's base on the following leniencies:
Hotel lounges may not have the last 2 requisites, although, as Shalom said, a bar may be different. Since we Ashkenazim hold chanan by reg. issur, 60x the lemon seems like a lot of soda in the glass. (60x would be the maximum even if you can taste the lemon after 60 (avidi letaima) since your only machmir by chanan to what's absorbed).
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Essentially do not use it if it has a lemon.
No problem.
The Maharsham (YD 96:1) holds that by a normal davar charif we go after rov tashmisho - the majority of its usage. Meaning, if most of the time the knife in question is used for cold (non kli rishon) things or for hot but kosher things, then it will not render a davar charif non-kosher, even if sometimes it is used to cut non-kosher meat straight off the fire. This Maharsham has been cited to me lehalacha by a very mainstream rabbi. I think it is clear that any knife being used to cut lemons will fall into this category.


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I am trying to add a feature for logging out, which is called in the click event of a ApplicationBarMenuItem, following the instructions on this blog
This is what my code looks like:
var oauth = new FacebookOAuthClient();
var logoutParameters = new Dictionary<string, object>
{ "next", "http://www.facebook.com" }
var logoutUrl = oauth.GetLogoutUrl(logoutParameters);
FacebookLoginBrowser.Navigate(new Uri(logoutUrl.AbsoluteUri, UriKind.Absolute));
What I expected this code would do is log the user out of Facebook when the Navigated event completes and then displays whatever URL is passed in the parameter (in this case facebook.com). However, what I'm seeing is that it always loads "http://m.facebook.com/" regardless of what is passed in and it does not logout of Facebook. I don't care what it loads after (that would be great, but at this point I just want it to do the logout action so the user can quit and login when they launch my app again). The only way I can successfully logout a user is if they understand when the page loads that they need to scroll down, zoom in, and click "logout" manually at the bottom of the page - which just isn't an acceptable user experience.
I also downloaded the sample code from that blog and it does roughly the same.
I've seen this and this post and the URL used is pretty close to what is returned by oath.GetLogoutUrl(logoutParameters), but I tried constructing the exact URL with the same result:
var logoutUrl = new Uri("https://www.facebook.com/logout.php?next=http://www.facebook.com&access_token="+fbClient.AccessToken);
This is definitely a ship stopper for my app, so any help or suggestions anyone can provide would be much appreciated!


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I'm a little confused on the concept of hearing music in your head. I dont think I really do that. Some people I know say they can hear specific instruments as they "listen". Do I not have the wiring, or is it less hearing and more trying to recreate?
You're absolutely right: not everyone can do this, although it's rare to have no 'inner ear' at all. Most people's inner ear improves as they receive musical training; as you're asking on this particular site, I'm guessing you've either had some or are keen to begin.
Don't let this worry you. You may find that you only think musically when you're actually playing or actively experimenting. There's also a distinct advantage you have: getting a tune stuck in my head can keep me awake for several hours!
This is how I see it... Imagine something you've seen often. Can you "see" it in your head? Maybe you don't get a very detailed image but you'll probably see something. And I don't mean it should look like the image is actually coming through your eyes, you just kind of remember the image; the shapes, colors, some details. Similarly you might be able to remember how something feels, like how does it feel to touch the doorknob, etc.
The same way you can remember how a piece of music sounds. If you've listened to a piece many, many times you might remember it pretty well and be able to "play" it in your head. You don't actually hear it, but remember the aural image, foreground melodies, rhythms, probably some harmonies etc. If that image is detailed enough, you can really "listen" to it. For example you can follow different lines than usual or concentrate on large scale structure or whatever. And yes, you can hear specific instruments. For example you don't only hear the melody, but you hear how the melody sounds, which includes the timbre of the instrument.
You can also, at least to some extent, change it, just like you can imagine something you have not actually seen. Or if you're really good you can imagine a completely new piece. You can in your mind create the instrumentation, harmonies, melodies, rhythms, dynamics, anything (maybe not in full detail if you're not Mozart).
Listening to music is something we learn. It is cultural. In order to hear a sound and be able to read its elements you need training, exposure to music and the way music is made. Sound is, for the most part, a two dimensional type of information -- the air pressure in your ears and the time --. Since the pressure goes up and down in time people call it a wave, the sound wave.
When instruments are played, the pressure in the air produced by them is added together. Like 2+9, which gives 11. In principle, from 11 you cannot recover that it was 2 and 9 the numbers you added. It could have been 1+10. In the same way, from a given music, played by a violin and a piano for example, it is not determined that a piano and a violin were played together to produce that sound. For example, you can take, in a computer, the same wave and decompose it into the sum of two other waves (or more if you want), each of which doesn't have to correspond to the sound of a piano or a violin.
The reason we are able to make an educated guess that the sound comes from a piano and a violin is precisely that, education, experience. We have listened to pianos and violins and have learned (roughly) what sounds they can make. We humans are fairly good at pattern recognition and that is what we do. We detect rough patterns in the sound that reminds us of the sounds we have heard in past experiences.
This said. Even very experienced musicians can listen to the sound of an ensemble of many many instruments and miss detecting some of them if the music is complicated enough. Or at least it may take them listen to the sound many times.
If you lack the skill. That is not such a big problem. You can get it just by listening to music. Specially try some in which there are parts in which instruments play solo and then together. Even better if what they play solo is the same as what they play together. That way you build the memories of how the instrument sounds by itself and you can practice decomposing the sound when they play together into the sum of the different instruments.
Edit: I see. I mistook the "can hear specific instruments as they "listen"". Well, in that case, that "listen in your head" is most of the times using your memory of sounds you have heard and is far from the act of listening. On the other hand, there are also neurological conditions that make you actually hear sounds without external stimulus. In The man who mistook his wife for a hat, by Oliver Sacks, he talks about some cases like this. Many of us can also have small acoustic hallucinations, small rings, bangs, or buzzing in your ears (not coming from physical vibrations in your body like the blood flow). I personally have experienced some after long periods of sleep deprivation.
I've always heard music playing in my head, even as a little kid (I'm now in my late 60s). My parents had the radio on a lot and there was usually some music in the background at home, pop, jazz, blues, as well as some classical. My mother liked to sing along with the radio tunes. The Catholic school I went to was big on music and taught us choral singing - even taught us Gregorian chant! - and we listened to classical music once a week in class. My oldest brother played accordian well, and I learned a bit, and guitar too. With all that music around me, I always thought it normal to be able to not only hear music in my head at any time, away from any radio or record player, but also to expand on it, change it, make up new rhythms, chord progressions, and melodies, and so on, all in my head, with all the instruments playing their proper roles. I have learned to play some instruments, but none really well, so when I want to actually record a song I've created it takes me forever and a day to get it right on tape (or, nowadays, on the computer). I wish I had the hand coordination and dexterity to bring the music in my head to reality a lot easier. I like to think I've "created" some really great compositions, but they're still inside my skull! All that being said, sometimes my brain gets stuck on a tune and it drives me nuts playing over and over and over, especially if it's one I don't even like.
I don't hear music in my head at all... But when I write music, especially on a computer, I sort of hear instruments parts that are not actually here... I think it's a matter of practice, both in learning pieces and in composing yours. I think actually hearing music in one's head depends on an actual academic training : once you've learn rules of composition, you happends to hear what is supposed to come after following these rules...and then later on your musical path, you should or should not have a need to go beyond these rules.


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You seem to be quite knowledgeable and I am in desperate need of help.
My boyfriend threatened suicide on Wed, and he has been missing since Fri afternoon since he got off of work. I want to get into his hotmail email account and see if there is anything in there that might help me and his parents find out where he is or what events may have led up to this.
I am 39 yrs old, this is not a joke or a way for me to randomly check out my significant other for no good reason. He has given me his password to some other accounts, etc. that he has but none of them are working on his hotmail account. I've never had a reason before today to try and read his email.
But right now I am pretty desperate (obviously) to get into his email. I tried doing the "forgot password" link but I think he set this account up when he was in another state (before he met me) and I don't know the zip code.
Is there anything you can do to help me? Obviously time is of the essence and I am trusting you not to be a crazy person (lol) and to understand discretion is very important here.
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The $1.3 billion facility will convert 163,000 million British thermal units of natural gas into 5,000 tpd of methanol. The new plant is "emblematic of the reindustrialization of the US based on low-cost energy feedstocks in the form of natural gas," said Simmons & Co. International analyst Bill Herbert.
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South Louisiana Methanol said Thursday it plans to spend
more than $1 billion to build what it says is the largest
methanol production plant in North America in St. James Parish,
The $1.3 billion facility will convert 163,000 million
British thermal units of natural gas into 5,000 tpd of
Methanol is a chemical used in industrial and consumer
goods, and is a key ingredient in formaldehyde. In its
announcement, South Louisiana Methanol said the plant's output can
be distributed as feedstock for Gulf Coast chemical
producers or exported to foreign markets.
"The technical and capital efficiencies of our plant in St.
James Parish will make us directly competitive with overseas
plants," said Barry Williamson, CEO of South Louisiana
"The conversion of natural gas to methanol offers natural gas producers
an alternative avenue to LNG [liquefied natural gas], enabling
the creation of products which are consumed at home on a
long-term basis."
The new plant is "emblematic of the reindustrialization of
the US based on low-cost energy feedstocks in the form of natural
gas," said Simmons & Co. International analyst Bill
Herbert. "We'll see more of this going forward in various
Construction on the plant is slated
to begin later this year, with start-up planned for 2016.
South Louisiana Methanol is a joint venture between
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its financial backer, the Todd Corp., a private company in New
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Dear Mr. B J Rao,Your seem to be an expert in this field, I have a question for you -- who is the technology provider for this wonderful MIDREX tech?I heard a lot about Holdor Topsoe, Sasal, UOP, etc. Which one do you recommend? Thanks.
Brian Tinsley
My client is in need of 100,000mt of methanol per month. if you can supply, please send me your best possible price. Please only real supplier, my client will send an agent to verify supplier. Please contact me at email@example.com with prices and contact phone and skype
B J Rao
It is a very good project. CAPEX & OPEX are the key factors for viability of the project. For conversion of NG to syngas, MIDREX (USA) Stichometric reformer can be seriously considered. This reformer is more efficient when compare with Team-Methane reformer (SMR) or Auto-thermal reformer (ATR). There are >60 reformers operating world wide. H2:CO ratio is >1.65. Tail Gas from Methanol plant can be used as fuel as well as process gas.I have operated this reformer for ~13 years. I am interested and You may consider me for this project
Bassey Rex
It will be brilliant idea but they have to maintain services and follow up. Cheers
Diana M.
I know the conversation went to Coal Syngas to Methanol through coal liquefaction or gasification, but I am reading they are using CH4 as feedstock not coal? The U-GAS® gasifier is one coal fluid-bed gasifier that has been commercialized in China and Finland. In this article the plant will use steam reforming of the CH4 to generate CO:H2 syngas ratio of about 2 to produce methanol and then sell it or further process it themselves to commercial commercial-grade gasoline with zero sulfur level plus some LPG. I'd go further using ExxonMobil's Methanol to Gasoline process (1970s) or TIGAS ... with zero sulfur or as feedstock to other chemicals as aldehydes etc that can be sold to even pharmaceuticals....
Pablo Camargo
What company will doing the construction?? or this plant is the reinstallation of the Chile one ?? I am Process Chemical engineer and I am interested in this project
Sunil K Guliani
Like Hermann I am also interested to know which technology. I was involved with Indonesia's second 2000T/day Methanol plant at Bontang for many years. Lurgi's 5000T/day plant, Atlas, at Trinidad is doing very well.
Jaime Bárcena
What will be such new methanol consume in balance between with its new production production of 5000 TPD ...?? A process fast balance between CH4 to CH3OH show a process yield of 77% ...The issuance do not mention which shall be the chemical process for like Techint or Davy, Lourgi technlogy
Gerard Janssen
Dit artikel geeft informatie over de omvang van deze Uniten het product methanol interresant is informtie over het procesbedanktGerard Janssen
W. Hermann peterscheck
Please advise wich technology is used.I was in charge of constructing a methanol plant for Pertamina based on LURGI technology.Therefore I am interested.I am retired, so I have no connection to the previous client and employer anymore.Thank you for the info
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The 6 Most Impressive Cases of Identity Theft Ever Pulled Off
#3. Like Gary Oldman, But Less So
On the one hand, who hasn't watched Gary Oldman awesome it up on the big screen and wished he (or she) could be Gary Oldman? On the other hand, it's Gary Freaking Oldman, who we're pretty sure could twist your clavicle into a 'G' for Gary with a twitch of his eyebrow.
That sound you just heard was the simultaneous destruction of thousands of collarbones.
So when Mark Tufano got it in his ballsy brain that he was going to impersonate one of the world's baddassest actors, you've got to you admit that made him pretty hardcore.
It started in 1998, when Tufano found out that a big Hollywood type was casting the role of Andy Kaufman for The Man in the Moon. Several leading men were going for the part, and to audition they had to send in videotapes of them impersonating Mr. Kaufman himself. Here's where things got tricky.
Tufano began making calls, posing as Oldman, even though Oldman himself had turned down the part weeks before. So naturally the director was confused. Especially when he got the video of Mark Tufano, pretending to be Gary Oldman, pretending to be Andy Kaufman. Even more especially when Oldman read that he was a leading candidate for the role that he previously turned down. So the real Oldman got on the phone to clear up the mess.
"Got on the phone" is Oldman-code for "threatened with a handgun."
And How Did That Work Out For Him?
Everyone sort of took the whole thing as a prank, which was totally appropriate considering an Andy Kaufman project was involved. Oldman himself wasn't so amused, though. In fact, he was annoyed enough to call Tufano directly, when the following conversation apparently took place:
Gary Goddamn Oldman: Mark? Mark? It's Gary.
Mark Tufano: What do you want?
Gary Goddamn Oldman: You've been me, haven't you? You can't be me. You can't be me.
No, Tufano. You can't be Gary Oldman. Ultimately Tufano claimed that Oldman told him he was a good actor, and let him go on his merry way. Either that or he murdered Gary Oldman and took his place. But that's just impossible. Right?
#2. Arnaud du Tilh - Le Imposteur
So you're a peasant in France in the 1500s. It goes without saying that life stinks. You'll do anything to get ahead. Even if that means, say, impersonating royalty, or pretending to be from a foreign land, or, best of all, impersonating another lowly peasant. It started when a guy named Martin Guerre went off to fight some wars and just stayed gone.
Three years later, a stranger showed up in town, claiming to be Guerre.
A rare photo of the Martin Guerre impersonator.
And apparently he looked enough like him and knew enough about his past that everyone went along with his story, including--wait for it--the original Martin's wife, who this medieval Don Draper was quick to knock up.
"Trust me. I'm Martin. Have a cocktail."
And then things really got weird. Real Martin's uncle eventually concluded this new, virile Martin was a fraud, especially when a passing soldier commented that he knew the real Martin, and that the real Martin looked a little different. Specifically, he had one fewer leg, having lost his in the war.
Pictured: A minor detail
So the imposter is accused of fraud in a highly dramatic trial, and Fake Martin loses. He is sentenced to death.
But OH SNAP... Fake Martin then appealed to higher authorities, and had his accusers arrested on perjury. And his new judges were going for his version of the story, too, when in a twist the writers of Scooby-Doo would envy, the REAL Marty actually showed up in the middle of the trial.
And he would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling, peg-legged, peasant.
Wooden leg and all. Fake Martin's multi-year, multi-babymaking jig was up.
And How Did That Work Out For Him?
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In execution, obviously. It was the Middle Ages. You couldn't go around getting women pregnant in another man's name and expect to live to tell the tale. It wasn't until after his official conviction that Fake Martin confessed, apologized and revealed how he almost got away with the whole thing. Two strangers had once confused him for the real Guerre and filled him in on all the details he needed to get his start.
As for the real Martin Guerre, he had just been chilling at a monastery after his time in the army. And the fact he and his wooden leg showed up just as the trial of his wife and uncle was under way was just a coincidence. An awesome coincidence.
#1. Barry Bremen Must Get Really Bored Sometimes
Barry Bremen was a man with a dream, and that dream was to crash as many sporting events as humanly possible, by any means whatsoever. He snuck onto the field of the 1979 MLB All-Star Game dressed as a Yankee. Also in 1979, he showed up in a Kansas City Kings uniform to the NBA All-Star Game, actually got onto the floor, and pulled it off again in 1981. He showed up in a limo to the 1982 Super Bowl as the San Diego Chicken and almost managed to get into the game. He played nine holes at the U.S. Open, he's pretended to be a referee, he even managed to impersonate a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, before getting hog-tied, handcuffed and booted off the field.
From 1979 to 1986 Bremen had himself a ball planning and executing elaborate impersonations, often with the help and support of his wife, just for the fun of it.
And How Did That Work Out For Him?
Not too shabby, all things considered. The Dallas Cowboys fined him $5,000 for his cheerleader shenanigans, but it appears his stunts got him many times that amount in publicity. He was featured in People Magazine and got to chat it up with Johnny Carson at a time when people actually cared about that sort of thing. And since those few minutes of fame and attention were all he was really wanted in the first place, we'd say Barry Bremen is a raging success of a man.
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