Taken by the Dark Energy Camera of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, this accidental picture of Comet Lovejoy must be one of the most beautiful comet portraits we’ve ever seen.
If you’re debating living in a tiny home, this video might tip the scale in one direction.
Texas has a beef with the so-called “Brisket Bandit.”
In his latest heist, an unidentified man with a meaty moniker stole 13 smoked briskets and 10 cases of beer, according to a Facebook post by the victimized shop, Augie’s Barbedwire Smokehouse in San Antonio.
The Brisket Bandit has allegedly hit three other area restaurants over the past few months, pilfering hundreds of dollars worth of brisket and pork products, News 4 San Antonio reports.
This time, the perp was caught on camera.
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Security footage (above) shows a man in a white hat rifling through the smokehouse at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, then loading the meat and beer into a white van. The shop’s owner, Augie Cortez, said that his smokehouse is staffed around the clock, but the Brisket Bandit struck during a shift change, according to KSAT.
“I feel for the guy — obviously he has good taste,” Cortez said.
Police are reportedly looking for the thief, who may have stolen 12 pork butts at The Smoke Shack, 200 pounds of brisket from B & B Smokehouse and 450 pounds of raw meat from Two Bros. Meat Market in January.
The Time a UFO Invaded Los Angeles: <em>UFO Diary</em> Recreates the Great LA Air Raid of 1942
Posted in: Today's ChiliToday marks the 73rd anniversary of The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great LA Air Raid, one of the most mysterious incidents of World War II — and one of the most colorful tales in all of UFO lore.
It’s also a tale we couldn’t resist turning into a movie.
Between the late evening of February 24th, 1942 and the early morning hours of February 25th, the City of Angels flew into a panic as what were initially believed to be Japanese enemy aircraft were spotted over the city. This suspected Japanese raid — coming soon after the Pearl Harbor bombing, and just one day after a confirmed Japanese submarine attack off the Santa Barbara coast — touched off a massive barrage of anti-aircraft fire, with some 1400 shells shot into the skies over Los Angeles during the frantic evening.
Strangely, however, the anti-aircraft shells hit nothing. Despite the intense barrage, no aircraft wreckage was ever recovered.
Indeed, once the smoke had cleared and Angelenos calmed down (the public panic over the raid was mercilessly satirized by Steven Spielberg in 1941), no one really knew what had been seen in the sky or on radar. Were they weather balloons? German Zeppelins? Trick kites designed by Orson Welles?
Many people believed the aircraft they’d seen was extraterrestrial – one eyewitness even described an object he’d seen as looking like an enormous flying “lozenge” – and some accused the government of a cover-up. Conflicting accounts of the incident from the Navy and War Departments didn’t help clarify matters.
As if to confirm public fears of extraterrestrial attack, one famous L.A. Times photograph (see above) emerged from the incident showing an ominous, saucer-like object hovering over the city. This much-debated photograph inspired America’s first major UFO controversy — a full five years before Roswell.
To this day, no one knows for sure what flew over Los Angeles that night and evaded the city’s air defenses. But since it’s more fun to assume that it was aliens than weather balloons, we decided to honor The Battle of Los Angeles by dramatizing it in our film UFO Diary as an encounter with the unknown. And as a special treat for UFO enthusiasts and history buffs, we’re releasing the trailer for UFO Diary today.
UFO Diary also honors the contributions of the 350,000 women who served in the US military in WWII. The film tells the story of a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) Captain (Govindini Murty) who, assisted by a WAC First Lieutenant (Rachel Clark), fights the alien invasion with pluck and ingenuity, shattering stereotypes about women’s roles.
The full version of UFO Diary will be released soon and features visual effects by such talented artists as Antony Vannapho (The Twilight Saga), Kiel Figgins (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Sean Dollins (Prometheus), Rini Sugianto (The Hunger Games), Delano Athias (Polis), Bren Wilson (Paradise Lost), and an array of others.
Of course, if you’re a movie fan, you already know that LA has been invaded countless times over the years in blockbusters like War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Transformers and V. Indeed, no other city — other than perhaps Tokyo — has suffered more on-screen calamity at the hands of extraterrestrials than Los Angeles.
Maybe LA deserves it. Whether because of the sunshine, the celebrities, the botox or the generally laid-back lifestyle, Angelenos have been drawing the wrath of their fellow Americans for generations.
But on one winter night during war time, 73 years ago today, wrath descended from the skies in the form of a UFO, seen by hundreds of thousands of Angelenos – and there was nothing we could do to stop it.
Did a UFO really invade Los Angeles in 1942? Look at the evidence – and decide for yourself.
This is part of the #CareerAdvice series – featuring successful professionals who share their advice to people who would want to take their career to the next level.
Today’s #CareerAdvice is from someone I had so much respect for and had a pleasure working with in the past. Always armed with fresh ideas, he’s always filled with interesting ideas and never fails to keep the clients updated with the latest digital trends.
Giles Henderson, Director, Media & Channels at VML Qais and now he shares with us some of the most important lessons he has learned in his career, how he got into advertising and the power of constantly having the passion for continuously learning.
Giles Henderson, Director, Media & Channels at VML Qais
Tell us a bit about how you started and highlights of your career
I had the desire to get into advertising from the age of 15. I blame this on my father. He was in advertising. He made it look sexy.
When I was 18 and had finished my A-Levels, I told him I wanted to ‘do advertising’. He advised against it.
That made me want to do it more. So I worked hard.. I sent myself on a trip around Australia to experience things. I worked hard to send myself to college. I did an advertising diploma course and that got me into advertising.
I spent 7 years in my first job and I would have to say that I owe everything thereafter to my first boss, Ian, who taught me how to plan media, how to buy media, how to deal with clients and publishers and how to enjoy advertising as it was then.
The highlight of my career was being able to argue with our Creative Director in my first agency (so we’re talking a career difference of about 15 years) that I was right in my thinking for a specific client strategy… and have the client agree with what I was proposing too.
If you could advise your 20-year-old self today, what would you tell him?
Make sure you learn everything you can about the company you are looking to work for. It’s pointless turning up for an interview totally unprepared.
Think big, but don’t think above your station and always believe that you have something else to learn at some point in your career.
What has been the most valuable advice you’ve ever gotten when you were faced with challenges in your career?
The most valuable advice I was ever given was I my very first full time job – which was working in a brewery in Ipswich, Suffolk.
One of the long-term warehouse staff there told me that I should never discuss my salary/wages with anyone I work with.
But that held true for anything else work-related too. Never reveal anything personal about yourself in work to your colleagues.
What would you advise those who are looking to take their careers to the next level?
Always know that there is more to learn. Keep researching.
Find out about anything that is even slightly related to your specific career path and make sure that you always know more than the person who employed you.
Use that as the way forward.. always advance yourself personally and never give in to thinking that the powers that be are more important than you.
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For the longest time ever, gamers who wanted to get PC games had to go to a retail store to get their hands on one, or they could purchase and download it via the developer/publisher’s website directly, at least until unified storefronts such as Steam came along where it introduced a community, friends list, and a ton of games for gamers to choose from.
So exactly how many players does Valve have on Steam at the moment? For those who are curious about the size of Steam, it has been revealed that Valve is boasting as much as 125 million active Steam accounts! Granted there are probably a few duplicates but still, 125 million active accounts is a lot, not to mention all these accounts are downloading and purchasing games on a daily basis.
Just so you can get an idea of how big 125 million is, it has been estimated that in Japan there are 126 million people, 121 million in Mexico, 80 million in Germany, and 65 million in the UK, meaning that the amount of gamers on Steam is almost double that of the amount of people living in the UK at the moment, pretty impressive, huh?
Valve had also previously boasted that they had 8.9 million concurrent users (which is basically 8.5 million players online at once), and with DotA 2, the company saw an all-time high of 1 million concurrent gamers.
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