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7 Insane True Stories Behind the World's Most WTF Houses
#3. The Beer Can House
Somewhere in Houston, Texas lays the Beer Can House, which in a stirring tribute to both recycling and alcoholism, is adorned with over 50-thousand crushed beer cans.
So Who the Hell Built This Thing?
We know what you're thinking, and no, the Beer Can House was never a frat house, believe it or not. The house was actually created by upholsterer John Milkovisch. The whole project started when Milkovisch decided to replace his lawn with cement slabs which he covered with marbles, metal and all sorts of other random junk, because in his words, he just "got sick of mowing the damn grass."
One must prioritize.
With his property now officially an eyesore, he decided to really go for broke. According to friends, Milkovisch lived on the route the beer truck drove to get to the grocery store where, like a middle-aged beer-bellied kid, he'd run out like he'd seen the ice cream truck and clean it out, stocking eight to 10 cases in his garage at all times. Perhaps it was the influence of all those beers that made him think sticking the empties on the walls was a good idea, but it turned out fine for Milkovisch as the house is now considered a beloved local landmark.
Basically what we're saying is that if there's ever a vote on who the awesomest guy ever was, John Milkovisch ought to at least be on the ballot.
And he looks exactly like you'd imagine him.
#2. The House on the Rock
Near the unassuming small town of Spring Green, Wisconsin lays one of the oddest houses in America. For starters, it's perched on top of a 60-foot tall column of sheer rock, and inside you'll find a seemingly randomly assembled collection of bizarre themed rooms. There's a room full of strange automated instruments, a recreation of an early 20th century town, a large carousel and more.
So Who the Hell Built This Thing?
The house's creator, Alex Jordan Jr., was famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's biggest fan. Jordan traveled to meet Wright so he could show him the plans for a building he had designed, hoping to get his idol's approval, and well, Wright basically straight-up told Jordan he was the shittiest architect in history, dropping the following awesome line on him...
"I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop. You're not capable." There's only one thing to say to that. Ouch.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Don Rickles of the the architecture world.
Well, after that, Jordan turned in his Frank Lloyd Wright fan club badge, and decided he was going to make Wright eat his words by building a house on top of a rock spire he spotted while driving home in a huff from the fateful meeting. 80-years later, Wright is America's most respected architect and Alex Jordan is one of seven crazy people mentioned in a Cracked article. You sure showed him Alex.
Not even Alex Jordan's hat could compare to FLW.
#1. Le Palais Ideal
Somewhere amongst the French countryside, near the town Chateauneuf-de-Galaure, lays Palais Ideal ("The Ideal Palace"), a huge, incredibly ornate palace built out of small stones, and decorated with imagery from the Bible, as well as from India and many other cultures from around the world.
It may seem like a monument from some sort of long-lost civilization, but it was actually built by some mailman, just for the hell of it.
Mailmen need insane hobbies too.
So Who the Hell Built This Thing?
Remember in The Shawshank Redemption where Andy dug a hole in the concrete and smuggled the fragments out of his cell in his pants pockets? Well imagine instead if Andy had done the opposite: picked up tiny stones in the yard and built a prison out of it. That's what Ferdinand Cheval did.
Just like Andy, if his plan had been retarded.
He was the mailman who, one day, tripped over a stone while on his route. Cheval found himself fascinated by its shape and, apparently having stunning amounts of spare time, decided to create the Palais.
From that day on, and for the next 33 years, Ferdinand Cheval would collect stones along his route, at first stuffing them into his pockets, before upgrading to a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. Fortunately the backhoe wasn't invented yet because we're sure Cheval would have taken one on his route if he could.
Clearly not the kind of man you say "no" to when he asks to pick stones off your sidewalk.
After collecting the stones, Cheval would then painstakingly piece together his ideal palace, usually working at night by the light of an oil lamp. Cheval wanted to be buried there, but unfortunately that was against French law. Since Cheval was a mailman, and thus possessed that unique postal worker combination of insanity and love for pointless rules, he decided not to fight it and instead spent the next eight years building a mausoleum using the same techniques he had used for his palace. He made sure the mausoleum didn't get all musty before he moved in either, promptly dying less than a year after he finished it.
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What is the best place online to buy books (used or new)?
There have been various book requests in the challenge section and folks have come back with good sites for book shopping. I'm haflway through Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments quadrilogy and I'd like to get the Infernal Instruments prequel books in hand before I finish. I've found decent prices on the two that are available at Abebooks.com, I was just wondering if there is anyplace else I should look before buying. Amazon, BTW is higher than Abebooks, and the Kindle editions are quite pricey.
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Check out http://www.paperbackswap.com . My wife trades dozens of books there (both soft and hard cover) every month. She has been able to get every book I've asked her to get for me (eventually). All it costs is media mail postage and a few old books to swap.
Cool, thanks. I am going to be finishing this series soon (read the first two in a week, the others probably won't last till the weekend) so they'll be ready for trade-in next week.
@turbinator42: Awesome website! I will have to take advantage of this with all my old books!
My personal favorite (of late) is http://www.gohastings.com/
96 cents shipping for entire book order, and you can currently use coupon code "BATMAN" for 40% off your entire order (used only).
Every book I've ordered from them has arrived in excellent condition. Protip: Their search function doesn't always work as well as it should, if you are looking for a specific book, find it on Amazon (or wiki, etc) and search for the book by the ISBN number (with the dashes removed)
I've been a fan of alibris.com in the past - assuming you're buying a decent quantity of books to spread out the shipping. They've always got discounts available, search coupon codes online for the current ones.
For one-offs, I usually stick with Amazon because I'm impatient.
I am also a member at paperbackswap.com and would recommend it.
Couple of tips for just starting out. Do some searches and see if the books you want are available to order or if you need to wish for it. New releases often have long wish lists but tend to move pretty quickly as more members get the book to read and post it for trade. Some older books may have a short wish list but also may not be posted for trade very often. Do a search for the books you plan to post. Some new members get overwhelmed by requests and the cost of mailing them. If your books are on someone's wishlist they will be likely be ordered soon after you post it. Other than that be patient, some members are quick to mail and others take some time to get the book in the mail.
PM me here or there if I can help with any questions.
@izzyizzo: They have good initial prices. But I can't see the shipping charges till I finish checking out all the way through Paypal. That makes it impossible to compare their prices with the other vendors.
@moondrake It's admittedly a pain unless you qualify for free shipping. Like I said, good for a whole stack of books, not so much for just a few.
Recently, I posted this book search engine somewhere else. It is, IMO, the very best way to find books.
Add-All They search 36 sites for you. Including Abe's, Powell's & Alibris. Hastings isn't included yet. BTW: I agree w/@tossthedice - Hastings has excellent books. Have bought a lot from there recently. Great condition/prices on used hardbound books w/dust jackets.
An interesting aside: AbeBooks is a subsidiary of Amazon!!
@gmwhit: Wow. I think we have a winner! It gives both the book price and the shipping to my state. And, for what it's worth, I'd been checking my shopping list all the sites that people have been suggesting and Abebooks was winning every time. It does using this search engine as well. But I will keep this as my go-to as it appears that it will give me the best price without having to search around.
Abebooks has always been cheaper to me in my past usages.
I go to www.bigwords.com to comparison shop between all the major online new and used bookstores. It's particularly helpful if you have a list. I've been in grad school for quite a long time now, and that's been my go-to place for finding the best prices, especially on academic books.

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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector's Edition unboxed in new videoWritten by: / / 2 Comments
If you've already ordered the Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Collector's Edition from the Square Enix Online Store or are contemplating doing so then be sure to watch the bundle's official unboxing video for a closer look at its contents. The Collector's Edition sells for $89.99 and includes a collector box featuring the game's Japanese box art along with a 80-page art book and a fully functional silver embossed pocket watch complete with chain. The bundle also includes a DLC code for a costume based on Aerith's flower girl attire from Final Fantasy VII.
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11 Nov 2010 7:04 AM #1
Possible security issue with ColdFusion sever side sample code
I am new to Ext's Direct functionality and was looking over the server side code for ColdFusion that is available with Ext 3.3 download. I may be misunderstanding the sample code but it looks like it contains a security issue that could expose private information and allow data to be altered in unintended ways, all without authentication.
It looks like the Router.cfm file will call any component and method specified by the client and return the result. This looks like a security issue as methods that were not remotely accessible before, now are.
ColdFusion remotely accessible methods have an "access" attribute that needs to be set to "remote" to run. However, because they are now called by Router.cfm and Direct.cfc, this built in security mechanism is neutered.
It might be wise to consider checking the access attribute of the components method before allowing a method be called.
12 Nov 2010 2:34 PM #2
remento - Thanks for the concern, the latest version checks simply to see if the ExtDirect attribute is set to true or yes.
https://github.com/aconran/DirectCFMAaron Conran
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A northeast Kansas activist is planning a Christmas Eve candlelight vigil to honor victims of the mass shootings at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The vigil is set for 4:15 p.m. Monday in Dornwood Park, near Highland Park High School in east Topeka.
Organizer Sonny Scroggins is encouraging people to bring flashlights, drums, bells, horns and candles. He says he wants to drown out what he calls the evil spirits occupying the city and the U.S.
Twenty-six people, including 20 children, were killed Dec. 14 at the school in Newtown, Conn., by a gunman who then killed himself.
The Connecticut shootings occurred two days before two Topeka police officers were gunned down in a grocery store parking lot.
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As first reported by Newsday, the netminder has signed a two-year, $2.6 million contract with New York to be the No. 2 goalie behind Jaroslav Halak.
Johnson proved himself at the NHL level last season in Boston after signing a one-year, $600,000 contract to back up Tuukka Rask. In 27 games, he went 17-4-3 with a 2.10 GAA and .925 save percentage.
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A bar mitzva or bridegroom is usually (in congregation I'm familiar with, or, at least, Ashkenazic ones) given maftir. Why is this, considering that it's the lowliest of all the aliyos? (The question is made even stronger by the fact that a katan can get maftir, so it seems a very odd choice to give a new gadol.)
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I don't really know why, but here are two possible ideas:
Conceivably, another point might be the fact that maftir is more of a "public performance," so to speak, than the other aliyos. Nowadays most people who get an aliyah don't read their own portion, but the maftir nearly always does (except on the rare occasions where someone is called up for it and doesn't know how to read it properly).
Many Chasidishe Shuls give Maftir to the Bar Mitzva boy the week prior to his actual Bar Mitzva. They can not give the Bar Mitzva boy any other Aliya as he is still a Katan. Those Chasidishe Shuls that give the Aliya after the Bar Mitzva give a regular Aliya, not Maftir.
I would imagine that this Minhag of giving a week prior has led to some giving it the week after. It also may be as they want to give the Brachos of the Haftora to the bar Mitzva boy.
I learned it as a combination of Menachem's point 1 (Rashi on beloved) and Gerson Gold's last sentence (the additional honor of the haftorah brachot).


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I uncommented a line that says all users in the admin group are sudoers and I think that caused my problem. I'm pretty sure I corrupted the file or something.
I would show what the sudoers file looks like but it's telling me access denied.
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HARKER HEIGHTS (February 7, 2013)—Michelle Newton, 24, who critically injured in a near fatal hit-and-run on Dec. 1 in Harker Heights, is out of the hospital and walking again, two months after she was struck.
Newton suffered a shattered pelvis, two broken legs and a broken back when a red Ford Ranger pickup truck struck her just after midnight on Dec. 1 at the intersection of West Veterans Memorial Boulevard and Harley Drive.
The impact threw her 30 feet.
Police have not made an arrest in the case.
"My whole life has changed," Newton said Thursday.
"You don't know how strong you can be until you're put into the position,"
Newton had hoped to be out of the hospital in time to spend Christmas with her 4-year-old son and family, but developed a major infection for which she required additional surgery.
"I worked very hard and pushed through the pain and just thought about my son and how much I wanted to go home," she said.
The infection was an unexpected complication in Newton's long and painful recovery, as a result of which she and her family are also facing mounting financial pressure.
Newton's mother, Kathy Vaughn, underwent spinal fusion surgery in October and then suffered a heart attack in November.
With Newton uninsured and unable to work, the family was facing the possible loss of their home.
Newton was unconscious and in intensive care for seven days, and two weeks passed before she was allowed to see her 4-year-old son.
She underwent intensive therapy at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco simply to learn how to get from her bed to her wheelchair.
"I'm scarred, broken, and I've had to go through a lot," she said.
"I don't know if the person who hit me knows what they did."
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Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is one of only eight photographers chosen by the Museum of Modern Art to participate in their latest exhibition, "Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950 to Today."
According to Museum of Modern Art Curator Ann Temkin, Deschenes was chosen because of her impulse towards the "democratization of art." Temkin explains that for the 44 artists included in the exhibition, their reference point is "ordinary life, rather than a transcendent realm apart." She writes, "These artists position themselves and their work not as an elite fraternity but as a part of the real world."
For the exhibition, Deschenes takes as her subject the media green-screen. "Green Screen #5 (with cube),"—photographed at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001—illustrates a particular color of the green screen that is generally valued for its technical utility rather than aesthetic quality. In a "positively brilliant" inversion, Deschenes subverts the role of the object, making the utilitarian color the subject according to Margaret Sundell of ArtForum.
Deschenes' work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. "Color Chart"—the first major exhibition devoted to artists who openly attest to the mass-production and standardization of color—will be on display March 2 through May 12, 2008, in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor, as well as at other locations in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.


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STEUBENVILLE - Two 16-year-old girls who used social media to send messages to a 16-year-old Weirton rape victim entered guilty pleas Thursday to telecommunication harassment misdemeanors and were placed on probation for six months.
On the same day, a grand jury adjourned for three weeks while investigators go back to analyzing evidence and interviewing witnesses to determine whether other laws were broken in the rape case.
The two Steubenville High School students also were sentenced by Jefferson County Juvenile Court Judge Samuel Kerr to 30 days in juvenile detention, but the judge suspended the sentence in favor of the probation and 40 hours of community service.
The two were initially charged with felony intimidation of a witness and aggravated menacing and telecommunication harassment, both misdemeanours.
The girls, through their attorneys, officially denied the charges during a court appearance in March. The juvenile court did not release the girls' names.
Both defendants told the judge Thursday they "made bad tweets."
They were originally arrested by Steubenville police March 18, the day after visiting Juvenile Judge Tom Lipps found Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville and Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale delinquent of rape. Mays also was found guilty of a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the 16-year-old victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone.
The judge also ordered the girls' cell phones be released to them.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel Pate said he was satisfied with the plea agreement and the statements made by the two girls.
The panel in Steubenville had met three days in a row before the adjournment was announced after the grand jury wrapped up Thursday afternoon.
The delay until May 23 will allow investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation "to continue evidence analysis and witness interviews," Attorney General Mike DeWine's office said in a statement.
It's the second such delay for the panel, which was seated April 15 but didn't begin work for two weeks while investigators continued their work.
One of the issues before the panel is whether adults like coaches or school administrators knew of the rape allegation but failed to report it as required by Ohio law.
Before Thursday's adjournment, DeWine had said the 14-person panel would meet three or four times a week with no deadline to finish its work. DeWine has said nothing is off the table for the panel.
Text messages introduced as evidence in the football players' March trial indicated that head football coach Reno Saccoccia may have known about the rape early on.
The coach "took care of it," defendant Trent Mays said in one text introduced by prosecutors.
"Like he was joking about it so I'm not worried," Mays said in another text.
Saccoccia has not commented and school officials say he won't be made available until after the grand jury concludes.


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Let $C$ and $S$ be abbreviations for $\cosh$ and $\sinh$, and consider the following function:
$$f(x,y) = \int_{-y\le r+l \le y} \frac{ (C(x)S(l)C(r) - C(l)S(r))(C(x)C(l)S(r)-S(l)C(r)) } {(C(x)C(l)C(r) - S(l)S(r))^2-1} dl dr$$
If $y=\infty$, this specializes (I think!) to $4\mathcal{L}(1/C^2(x/2))$ where $\mathcal{L}$ is the Rogers dilogarithm (maybe some constants and factors are missing). The question is whether the function $f$ is studied anywhere. References would be appreciated.
Note: This function arises as the volume of a certain region in the unit tangent bundle of a hyperbolic surface; therefore I am not looking for an answer which just translates it back into its geometric origin.


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The other night we went to a pasta dinner at the boys' school--a way to meet with other parents and build school spirit. We had a great time, but between chatting and trying to shove pasta into the mouths of kids, Vegan Mom and I really didn't eat a lot. We were both feeling pretty peckish later that evening so I whipped up these fantastic quesedillas (he said, tooting his own horn).
Friday, April 24, 2009
Sweet Potatao and Kale Quesedillas
The other night we went to a pasta dinner at the boys' school--a way to meet with other parents and build school spirit. We had a great time, but between chatting and trying to shove pasta into the mouths of kids, Vegan Mom and I really didn't eat a lot. We were both feeling pretty peckish later that evening so I whipped up these fantastic quesedillas (he said, tooting his own horn).
Posted by Vegan Dad at 10:33 PM
Labels: beans, kale, Mexican, sweet potato
23 comments:
- jvegegirl said...
Ha! I eat cereal when I'm peckish. I'm an ashamed vegan now :).
- April 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Janet said...
toot away (and you would, after beans and kale): these sound fantastic!!
- April 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM
- Vegetation said...
Yum! These look fantastic!
- April 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM
- shelby said...
Kale & Sweet Potatoes?! Perfect match!!! They are my two favorite vegetables =)
- April 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- lebkuchen said...
Ha! I literally just minutes ago finished making a batch of your sweet potato quesadillas from your e-book! I looooove them so much, especially with chopped pecans in the middle. I can't wait to try these ones, too! Nice!!
- April 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Macie said...
That sounds freaking delicious! The only part I'm a bit confused about is the corn: it says to add it twice. Is this a typo or do you divide the corn in half and add some of it with the jalapeno? Or am I reading something completely wrong (entirely possible)? Thanks!
- April 25, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Mary said...
Those are perfectly browned and crispy! I don't like sweet potatoes, but these sound like they'd be good with regular potatoes and lots of garlic.
- April 25, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Chaos Mom said...
thanks. i just drooled all over my keyboard. also, now i have to stop at the store on teh way home.
can't wait to try this. :D
- April 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- DJ said...
Sounds perfect - we had a chilli based around very similar ingredients this week which was also really good!
- April 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- Carlota. said...
I love kale and sweet potatoes! that looks really good!
- April 26, 2009 at 6:53 PM
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- April 27, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- Cafe Cyan said...
Great idea - I have both kale and sweet potatoes waiting for me to give them a purpose!
- April 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Steph (I am Bee) said...
ooh i want some of those!!
- April 27, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Gwen said...
Oh my goodness, I just made these and they were wonderful. Thank you so much for posting this recipe :)
- April 30, 2009 at 4:53 PM
- Viki said...
I've been following your blog for a bit and made a few of your recipes. I have to tell you this one Wowed me so much, I told several friends who also made it.
I even tooted your horn on my blog.
I did substitute spinach for the kale as I was out of kale. They turned out wonderful.
- May 2, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- Angie said...
I made these last night (subbed black eye peas because we were out of black beans)...they were totally awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
- May 5, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- draculor said...
I absolutely adore these--I have made them 3 (soon to be 4) times since you posted them! The combination of kale, sweet potato, and black beans is just to die for. Thank you for sharing! I wrote them up on my own fledgeling blog, that's how much I adore them. :-)
- May 12, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- Carrie said...
these look AMAZING! wow!! I'm SO glad I just found your blog today! I'm a newby vegan and am so short of good recipes. thank you so much for this!!! I'm making the snobby joes tonight with your additions of ketchup, red wine vinegar, and tobasco! can't wait!
- August 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- kellycrochets said...
I am making these tonight for dinner. I can't wait. I just planted some kale, and will be using it fresh from the backyard. hooray!
Thank you!!
- September 21, 2009 at 8:09 PM
- Mrs Shew said...
I have a full half sitting with me cooling (bites already taken) as I type this. I LOVE THESE!!! Another wonderful recipe. You never disappoint!
- October 27, 2009 at 7:55 PM
- Kiersten said...
Hey Vegan Dad. I made this recipe for the Blog Recipe Challenge we are doing on the PPK. I LOVED these! Great recipe!
- November 20, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Basil said...
These made really good wraps! And I liked the mashed potatoes- they made an excellent glue, so the wrap was easier to eat. Great for satisfying cravings for sweet potatoes.
- September 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Rachel said...
This looks delicious...I plan on making it tomorrow. Which do you mean, sweet potatoes or yams (the orange ones often mistaken for sweet potatoes)?
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The city of Redding has been clamoring for a Halloween store since September when Spirit Halloween Store, which usually occupies Circuit City on Dana Drive, never came in.
Now, a new Halloween store has come to town--kind of. Paige Allen used to be Redding's resident Halloween store owner when she would sell costumes, makeup and wigs at her downtown shop, The Humor Store, every October.
Now that Spirit has not come to town, Allen decided to open up shop again. Although The Humor Store has since become an online-only store, she decided to rent out a store about a week and a half ago and sell Halloween gear. Her store, Halloween Headquarters is off of Hilltop Dr. next to Petco.
"They're [Spirit Halloween] usually open at the end of September. As soon as I found out that they weren't going to open here, I knew I had to do something," says Allen.Spirit Halloween's headquarters in New Jersey was contacted for the story but never responded to requests for an interview.
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Mark and Donna Groom of Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners will present a free concert at the Penn State Beaver Brodhead Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29, in the J. P. Giusti Amphitheater. In the event of rain or inclement weather, the concert will be held in the auditorium of the Beaver campus Student Union Building.
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Tom Hentschell's 29 Ford Model A Tudor - ResuscitatorWritten by on February 29, 2008 Tom Hentschell's Not-So-Subtle Hot Rod
One of the first things you notice about this model A is the burly looking, horizontally mounted, semi-truck stacks that run below its Tudor body. There's a good reason for that-owner Tom Hentschell wanted his latest hot rod to have a unique signature, something that would be different and also act as an attention grabber. "The plan was to have the side pipes and headers be the focal point of the car," said Tom, who has owned a number of attention-grabbing cars. Up until a recent visit to Hot August nights in reno, he was a corvette guy, but Tom said, "I'm not one of those concourse guys. I like to hot rod my Vettes!"
In 2000, Tom and his wife, ellen, ruised down to reno in their highly customized '63 corvette roadster to see what Hot August nights was all about. While there, Tom became enamored with hot rods and he promptly sold the Vette and replaced it with a deuce highboy when he returned home to Tacoma. It didn't take long before Tom was personalizing the '32, but after attending a few rod events he noticed all the cars started to look the same, including his. Tom was used to having loud and flashy cars, so he assembled a talented team of craftsmen who shared his "dare to be different" approach to hot rod building and they created a cartoon-car-come-to-life he named the defibrillator.
The team consisted of bob "mr. Weld" biehler from olympia, Washington, larry Foss restorations from montesano, Washington, and Tom, the team leader and out-of-the-box visionary. The result was a radical, ed roth-influenced, metalflake orange, '33 Hemi-powered three-window coupe, and the shifter and driver's head poke through the roof just like roth's drawings! Although it drew smiling crowds wherever it went, it was mostly a unique fairgrounds cruiser, and Tom wanted a hot rod he could drive on the highway.
So in the fall of 2004, Tom reassembled the team and together they laid down a plan to build a clean, classic-looking hot rod. "The concept was to build a reliable car that would have an old-school look that I could blast down the freeway doin' 80 mph," Tom said. Where the defibrillator was wild and crazy, he wanted his new rod, the esuscitator, to be traditional and tame; "I also wanted it to be subtle and uncluttered," Tom added.
He started by acquiring a chopped '29 sedan body and grille from bob biehler and delivering it to larry Foss. Biehler got busy beefing up a model A frame so it would handle the torque from the rat motor Tom intended to use for power. In the meantime, larry's crew began the body preparation, which consisted of finishing the 4-inch chop job and installing patch panels to replace the rusted lower portions of the body. When all the parts and pieces were ready, larry doused the whole works in Plum cherry.
Tom also wanted the no-chrome look, so everything that wasn't painted was either polished or ceramic coated. Tom also thinks holes are "hot roddy," so lots'a holes were tastefully incorporated into the overall look of the car. A soupedup 454ci engine was shoehorned between the radiator and the recessed firewall, and because the car was meant to be a driver, Tom explained, "We compromised with single, effi cient four-barrel carb and an electronic overdrive tranny."
Classy and tasteful best describe the interior of the Tudor. The saddle and black vinyl combo gives an old leather appearance. The gas tank and battery are hidden behind the rear seat. For safety, larry Foss built a four-point rollbar outfitted with shoulder straps. Regarding creature comforts, Tom said, "Hot rods should have loud pipes and no radio-and air conditioning is for sissy cars!" However, he added, "my wife, ellen, did insist on a heater!"
Tom's new hot rod was invited to the invitation-only mild to Wild car show in the Tacoma dome not long after the team finished the project in January 2007. As might be expected, the A-bone with the big pipes was a crowd pleaser and was surrounded all weekend long. But this car won't be a static rod riding around on the back of a railer. "We'll drive it everywhere and we're looking forward to seeing what it will do in the quarter-mile," Tom said. "right now, the problem is keeping the cheater slicks stuck to the pavement!"
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Bob "mr. Weld" bieler beefed up the stock model A 'rails by adding boxing plates and new crossmembers. He then mounted a dropped I-beam axle, transverse spring, and hairpins up front and a four-bar/coilover suspension out back. Bilstein Shocks and a Vega steering box round out the frontend. Tom said no to chrome, so the front suspension was ceramic coated. The frame was Z'd in back and notched in front to lower the car. The narrowed 9-inch Ford rearend sports 3.50:1 gears. Brakes are disc in front and drums in back. Tom digs the look of holes on his hot rods, so the framehorns and the suspension frame supports got punched!
The resuscitator is powered by a built 450hp, 454ci big-block, fed through a demon 750-cfm carburetor topped with a '50 buick air cleaner. A polished aluminum edelbrock manifold sits between aluminum edelbrock heads. The signature, ceramic-coated headers and side pipes took mr. Weld between 40 and 50 hours to fabricate. Even though Flowmaster Hushpower mufflers are tucked inside the 6-inch pipes, they still have a nice bark. Tom wanted the rod to be a driver, so he backed the motor with a 700-r4 overdrive.
Wheels & Tires
American Torq-Thrust classics with spokes painted a dark metallic gray to complement the rod's Plum cherry body were used at the corners. The big 'n' little wheel combo helped create the subtle rake Tom was after. Rear wheels are 16s wrapped with Firestone dragster cheater slicks (10.00-16); Firestone bias-plies (5.60-14) are mounted to the 14-inch Americans up front.
Body & Paint
Larry Foss restorations handled the metal prep and Plum cherry paint job. Larry had to finish the sedan's 4-inch chop and then channel the body 2 inches in front and lower the grille to match to get the stance just right. The sunvisor, grille shell, and buick air cleaner got the "holey" treatment, too, and larry also fab'd the polished nerf bar. The dietz small bucket headlights, frenched '37 Ford taillights, and frame were painted the body color. Pinstriping was done by Jr. Nelson of Tacoma. The body received a black vinyl top to keep the original look.
Charlie rowell from Holcomb upholstery in Aberdeen, Washington, handled the stitchin' chores, covering the seats and door panels with a combination of saddle and black vinyl and installing German loop carpet. Bob biehler built the custom steering column drop that houses switches for the lights and wipers and the starter pushbutton. The '32 dash is outfitted with stewart Warner gauges and complements the mooneyes tach, Pete & Jake's four-spoke wheel, and lokar shifter with skull knob. Larry Foss built the four-point rollbar.


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February 10, 2013
To the editor: It was wonderful to see our president's compassion, even the shedding of tears, when those 6- and 7-year-old children and their teachers were killed....
Maverick, you are worse than Mr. Core. At least core does not believe in God. You seem to believe in him but hate him. Are you a satanist?
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@Maverick, that was the best Godophobic rant I have read in a long while. As long as human history has been recorded, there has been violence. The direct relationship is between violence and humans not religion. Even though many people have been violent in the name of religion. It is not inclusive by any means. People don't need religion to murder others. You try to describe God as all-merciful. This is incorrect. First of all, God is a righteous God and Sin can not be in the presence of God. Man can not follow the Old Testament Law to come back into the presence of so God sent his Son. He was the sinless blood sacrifice to allow mankind back into the presence of God. God is in a period of forgiveness, love and acceptance. But the Bible indicates that Jesus, the Son of God will return with a vengence and remove all sin and wickedness from the earth.
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@playtowin, before you attempt to quote the bible to make your point, you should read the whole verse for it's meaning instead of taking a small passage out of context. The verse you are trying to quote doesn't mean not to judge or condemn. It means that the standard or measure YOU judge people will be the standard or measure that is used to judge YOU! "For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."
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I wrote that post in reply to the writer of his LTE.
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LUKE 6:37, "Judge not, and you will not be judged; Condemn not, and you will not be comdemned; Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
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R u expecting God to end violence. God has a worse track record than America for violence. Most of his followers also have a violent track record. God is such a contradictory concept. An all-merciful God creates an eternal Punishment for the sins committed on this mortal planet that is steeped with evil. The bible is rife we with violence and evil. There is a direct relationship between violence and religion. God sent his son to earth to suffer one of the most violent deaths in history. For what? He used an ugly, senseless, sinful murder to cleanse the world. God unleashed Satan on his loyal believer (Job)and exposed him to vile and inhumane punishment. God plays violent games with his followers and we look to him to show us the way. Something seems so absurd about the portrayal of God as all-Merciful when he creates a*****that is eternal, destroys the earth with a flood, burns two cities,kills Jobs children,traps his chosen people in the desert. He seems all-bipolar not merciful.
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He seems very tranquil, but he probably has to be to preserve energy for the harsh conditions. I love his decorations. They are more intense hues of the landscape. If they were yellow or green, it just wouldn't work.
Beauty in a stark landscape!
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LAMPASAS (October 4, 2012)—After nearly 30 years, County Auditor Jack Clark will leave his post at the end of the year.
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About 30 residents were relocated recently because of plumbing issues in the public housing units at Cammie Clagett Courts in Spartanburg.
Daryl Dalton, director of housing for the Spartanburg Housing Authority, said the residents were moved to allow engineers time to work on the problems.
"The upstairs bathrooms in some of the units were leaking downstairs, and we didn't want to leave people in those units," Dalton said. "Some of the residents were relocated into other units inside Cammie Clagett, and a few residents were moved outside to other housing units."
The housing authority is working with engineers to resolve the issues. Dalton said engineers are conducting an assessment of the plumbing problems and will present a written report within a couple of weeks.
Several community meetings have been held with residents to explain the problems.
Cammie Clagett Courts. located at 400 Highland Ave, was built in 1971, and there are 150 units in the complex. Once the engineers complete an assessment, residents will be informed about other actions that may be needed.
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Let $(E,\phi)$ be a $G$-Higgs bundle $\phi\in H^{0}(X,ad(E)\otimes D)$ where $D$ is a divisor on X.
I suppose that $(E,\phi)\in \mathcal{M}^{ani}$ the anisotropic locus.
In particuler, this bundle is stable as a Higgs bundle because, it doesn't have any reduction to a parabolic.
Does it imply that the underlying bundle $E$ is itself stable?
More generally, when a stable Higgs bundle has a stable underlying bundle.


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March 08, 2013
Cape Argus 2013: Two ladies to ride their 30th race
For 29 years Janet Moss and Marje Hemp cycled the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour without ever meeting each other. This year, the two will set off alongside each other, as they commemorate their 30th race together.
They form part of a group of very special women: there are 90 of them who have completed the race 20 times, of whom 25 have cycled it 24 or more times.
"We are the terrific 25," Moss, 61, says. A track cyclist, Moss has represented South Africa in seven World Championships. She is a 500-metre specialist and says she uses the cycle tour as one of her training tools. She has just recovered from having a knee ligament replaced, and says she is "just about ready" for the race. "I will finish, I can't not do," she states.
Moss, who lives in Hout Bay, and Hemp, 62, who lives in Pinelands, recently met for the first time and so will together celebrate their 30th tour. They have been invited to join the Safe Cycling Group and will wearing yellow-and-red shirts. Hemp said of the group: "This is a great initiative, made even more important since the death of Burry Stander."
"I am very excited about doing my 30th Argus Cycle Tour this year. I would also like to inspire other women to keep cycling and enjoy many more Argus tours," Hemp says.
Each year both women look forward to the tour, which they say is always well-organised and supported by spectators. Hemp also says she is thankful that a substantial amount of the race proceeds go to charity.


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(AP) PHILADELPHIA - Don't rule Michael Vick out just yet.
Two days after injuring his left hamstring, Vick was back on the field Tuesday. He threw and jogged, though he didn't participate in team drills during practice.
"I was surprised I was able to throw and throw with such velocity," Vick said. "I feel a lot better than I did on Sunday. Sunday was kind of agonizing. It was tough. It was tough to deal with but I'm glad with where I'm at today."
Vick left late in the second quarter of Philadelphia's 36-21 win at the New York Giants after pulling his hamstring running out of bounds on a 13-yard scramble. Nick Foles came in and threw two touchdowns, sparking a debate over who should start for the Eagles (2-3) this week at Tampa Bay (0-4).
If Vick is healthy, he's the No. 1. But coach Chip Kelly left open the possibility that Foles could win the job if he plays and performs well.
"My expectation is to work great (in practice), get a lot of work in, study the film, and whatever it is on Sunday, I'll be ready," Foles said.
Vick was excellent in the first two games, but his production dropped in the next three. He's thrown for 1,185 yards, five touchdowns and two interceptions, and has 307 yards rushing and two more scores.
"You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't get back out there for two or three weeks," Vick said. "We're playing it smart. The coaches told me to come out and do whatever I could. I came out and threw the ball just to get a feel for what I could do. I know my body better than anybody else. You don't want to strain it.
"You don't want to do anything to make the injury worse."
Foles has 246 yards passing, three scores, zero interceptions and a 122.4 passer rating in parts of two games. A third-round pick last year, Foles was 1-5 as a starter last season after Vick sustained a concussion in November. His only win was on the road against the Buccaneers.
"It's kind of disheartening when you can't be out there and playing," Vick said. "But the good thing is we've got a good backup who will be able to step in and do a great job with this team, and we've got a lot of players who believe in themselves and each other.
"So, that'll take us a long way."
The biggest difference between Vick and Foles besides mobility is efficiency in the red zone. Vick is 5 for 19 for 38 yards and one score inside the opponents' 20. Foles is 2 of 3 for 11 yards and two touchdowns.
"When you look at it, there's not quite large enough sample size to see any trends," offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. "I just think it's a mixture of things. We can't have penalties. We've got to do a better job of throwing and catching, and then of course in critical areas in the field, we've got to do a better job protecting."
After snapping a three-game losing streak to AFC West opponents, the Eagles are tied for first place with Dallas in a weak NFC East in which the teams are 5-14 combined. The Eagles already won at Washington and at New York, and host Dallas in two weeks.
NOTES: WR DeSean Jackson isn't concerned about going against three-time All-Pro CB Darrelle Revis on Sunday. "I don't think he can run with me. I don't think he's as fast as me," Jackson said. "It will be a challenge. He's a great player. Nothing to take away from him. I'm focused on what we have to do here, which is win a football game. We're not going to make it into a one-on-one battle, me versus Revis. It's the Eagles versus Tampa Bay. At the end of that game, as long as we're winning, that's all that matters to me." ... Tampa Bay has scored just 24 points in two home games.
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At a point on a surface an incompressible fluid begins to up well at a constant rate and spread across the surface.
Is there a physical law - like the heat equation - that describes the flow?
Will the fluid eventually cover the whole surface?
Once the surface is covered allow sinks to appear to keep the volume of fluid on the surface constant. Will one then get an equilibrium distribution of fluid flow on the surface?
I have in mind closed surfaces with no boundary so that the fluid can't fall of any edges or leak through any holes.


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I have a shapefile of United States counties. I have two counties that I would like to highlight. I would like to draw a straight line distance between them. By straight line, I mean, if you were to lay down, say, railroad tracks that go straight. I want to know which counties this line would pass through.
For example, suppose that I would like to draw a line between San Diego County, California, and Cook County (containing Chicago), Illinois. I would want to know which counties this line would pass through. For example, I imagine it would include counties in California, possibly Nevada, and so forth until Illinois, and obviously not include counties in states like Texas, Oregon, Florida, or Vermont.
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Anyone else have a problem with their Acer monitor from June 5?
This is the monitor I ordered from the June 5 sponsored deal.
Acer 23-inch Widescreen LED Monitor 1080p | S231HL
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...problem is, there's no HDMI port. (only VGA and DVI) Am I missing something here?
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I contacted them on ebay so I imagine I won't hear until tomorrow.
file a paypal dispute and message the seller
Are you sure they sent you the correct model #? I looked at a picture of it on Amazon and it appears to be to the left of the other ports.
@drsilentg: Message the seller first, give him/her/them a day or two to respond, and if there's no response or an unsatisfactory reply, then file a dispute with Paypal.
@magic cave: i do both that way they HAVE to respond. i've had to many sellers try to ignore me until i file a paypal dispute, then they message me within 12 hours
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Thanks for pointing out the issue.
Just as a follow-up... Acer did respond to my message on eBay... they acknowledged it was a listing error and offered a partial refund to keep the monitor or a full refund to return it all-together. I opted for a full refund and they even paid the return shipping, even though the eBay listing was described as "buyer" pays for return shipping.
So even though it didn't work out, they were very professional and I was happy with their customer service.


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I am trying to generate an MD5 check-sum of every element on a page that has the
<h2> tag, then display the values as a popup.
The code I have already should get each
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If you install wireshark on a web server sitting in the DMZ, is there a hack that can be used to get backdoor entrace to that server even when RDP is disblaed? I'm trying to monitor the wire on the DMZ web server but getting pushback from the DMZ team that it opens up a back door hack without a lot of details
A proper DMZ will isolate hosts on the DMZ from each-other in addition to managing access between the hosts and the internet / internal network. The DMZ environment provides for a single choke-point to enforce security and access policies, and provides one single point to monitor traffic into, out of, and within the DMZ.
A DMZ isn't just a network that has access to the internet and the internal network. That's called a security risk and poor planning.
There are potential buffer overruns and security risks with any application that is taking data from uncontrolled sources, especially if the application is running with root / superuser privileges. This is true of wireshark, this is true of sendmail, IIS, true of anything.
To my knowledge, there aren't any "RDP back doors" in wireshark.
My point is "So what if it does open a back-door?"
A proper DMZ should
I'm not completely in agreement with the DMZ descriptions described above. The security professionals who operate the DMZ probably have "paranoid" in their job descriptions and the DMZ is a "production" space, so see it from their point.
Many of the vulnerabilities cited occur due to flaws in packet dissectors, which are only used during the interactive rendering of traces. This interactive access does not require the same elevated privileges required for packet capture.
Since what you seem to need this for is analyzing local packet capture from the web server, why not separate the functions? Run packet capture on one host, and do the analysis (keeping the dissectors up to date, etc) from another, more restricted, non-production segment after retrieving the trace files.
and implement the practices described there.
Wireshark doesn't offer any networking service and doesn't open any port on the system it's running on, so this just doesn't make sense. Having it installed on a system doesn't pose any security threat on its own.
The only potential risk here is, if someone manages to take control of that server, he can use Wireshark to examine network traffic in the DMZ. But, if someone takes full control of your server, he could also install any program he wants on it... so not having it installed wouldn't stop him from installing it, if he wants to.
I really can't see any problem in installing it on a server.
Wireshark has suffered from its fair share of remote compromise vulnerabilities [CVE-2010-1455, CVE-2010-0304, CVE-2009-4377 + 8, CVE-2009-4376] (CVE lists hundreds). As anyone whose gone to Defcon or the Blackhat security conventions knows, Running any sort of packet sniffing software is wildly dangerous if you're in a secure environment. I'd guess that practically every Security Metrics book published in the last few years would strongly recommend against it.
That said, a proper DMZ would prevent an attacker from gaining any leverage anyway, however, you need to weigh the potential of your IDS or routing control software of choice to be compromised with the usefulness of running WS.
First up, I'm of the opinion that anything extraneous installed on any machine in the DMZ is a potential security risk. I work on the principle that anything in the DMZ is a target and has been placed there to try and minimise risk through isolation. Such machine should be treated as if it can be expected to be compromised.
Despite the foregoing, while Wireshark could potentially be used to watch the traffic in the DMZ the reality is that in order to use it the machine must already be compsomised, which means the perpetrator could just as easily install it themselves if they wanted to. By having it already installed you might at worst be saving them a few seconds of time.
Wireshark has had plenty of vulnerabilities in the past, and will likely continue to have more discovered in the future. They usually lie in the protocol analyzers. If an attacker sends specially crafted packets, wireshark could have a buffer overflow while analyzing those packets and execute arbitrary code. (So RDP is irrelevant). Try using a simpler sniffer like tcpdump and just analyze the pcap files elsewhere. (Why do you really need Wireshark's GUI anyway if you're not RDPing into the box?) Another thing to keep in mind is that depending on what this webserver does, sniffing the traffic may reveal info you're not supposed to have.


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My Physics teacher stated that Pluto has a gravitational pull on objects on Earth, namely humans. Is this true? What is the free-fall acceleration of Pluto with respect to being on the Earth's surface? (i.e. the Earth's free-fall acceleration is 9.8 m/s*s).
This is true. Newton's law of universal gravitation says everything attracts everything. To get the free-fall acceleration of some object on Earth towards Pluto, take Newton's law and divide by the object's mass to get $$a=\frac{F}{m}=\frac{GM}{r^2}.$$ Subbing in reasonable values - $M=0.002$ Earth masses, and $r$ between 29 and 49 AU you get something like $10^{-14}\textrm{ m s}^{-2}$.
As Emilio points out the gravitational attraction by pluto is on the order of $10^{-14}\textrm{ m s}^{-2}$.
However this is not an acceleration that can be felt in any meaningful way - In a flat gravitational field movement due to acceleration by gravity is identical to inertial movement. However as it happens the gravitational field from pluto is not flat, it's inversely proportional to the square of the distance. This means that with a suitable reference point it's in theory possible to detect the tidal force that pluto creates.
For us a suitable reference point would be earth.
We know, from the other answers, that the acceleration from pluto's pull is $$a_{me}=\frac{GM}{d^2}.$$
Where $M$ is the mass of Pluto and $d$ is our distance to Pluto.
If we assume that we are on the side of the planet facing Pluto, and on a direct line between the center of the planet and the plutoid. We get that the acceleration of earth due to Pluto is $$a_{earth}=\frac{GM}{(d+r)^2}.$$
Where $r$ is the radius of the earth.
The difference is thus $$a_{me}-a_{earth}=\frac{GM}{d^2}-\frac{GM}{(d+r)^2}=GMr(\frac{2}{d^3+d^2r}-\frac{r}{d^4+2d^3r+d^2r^2})$$
However the radius of earth is tiny compared to the distance to Pluto so we can approximate the above to; $$a_{me}-a_{earth}\approx\frac{2GMr}{d^3}$$
Pluging this into WolframAlpha tells us that we can perceive a difference in acceleration of roughly 10-19ms-2 between us and the Earth.
I am not a physicist but this will answer your query; According to Newton's law of universal gravitation every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
for example: lets say r is the distance between earth and pluto, G the universal gravitation constant, m1 is the mass of pluto and m2 be the mass of a human on earth, we can then calculate the gravitational force exerted by m1 to m2.
you can also refer this site http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circles/u6l3c.cfm
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