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[SPEC] Tagruato Corp. & Subsidiaries Discussion Thread

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Dr. Awkward
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Duckie wrote:

From the website's interactive drilling map, it looks like they're opening several new drilling stations this month; one of which will be by the eastern American coast.
Don't do it!!! Shocked

MrToasty wrote:

I'll ask before anyone else does to get it out of the way - any drilling near the Bloop?

Melampus wrote:

Can't wait for the ParafFun! and Bold Futura sites to come on-line.

Also, the PDF files for the financial statements don't link to anything yet.

So, who is "Hiro Takahashi" and his wife, "Akemi"?

Duckie wrote:

Hiro Takahashi is probably either a nod to Hiro, from heroes (since jj and the heroes guy have that love affair with each other's work) or Hiro Takahashi, a Japanese musician. Interesting what he writes about, that they discover compounds and specifically test them to cure cancer.

keeno_82uk wrote:

hi, first of all i'm new to this.

the drilling at the Chuai Station, nearest to the USA and New York and the fact that it starts so close to the actual disaster date puts things into perspective as to why this creature from the depths attacks New York. Its the closest land mass to where i think it is disturbed by the drilling off shore.

I think that all of the special ingredient mentioned in other topics, have run dry, hence why there are so many drilling stations around the globe. It seems like it was only a matter of time before the Tagurato Corp disturbed something and it in return, sought revenge.

I beleive this is a big find, seems authentic. I have been following everyones investigative work over the past month or so and thought i'd join in the action at this stage. Well done so far guys

Melampus wrote:

All the names of the 14 Drilling platforms seem to be names of Japanese Emperors, historical and/or mythical.

EDIT: In fact, check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emperors_of_Japan

NYC5 wrote:

Emporer Chuai - "Station on Mid-Atlantic Ridge"

According to these same legends, his wife was suddenly possessed by some unknown gods. The gods promised Emperor Chūai rich lands overseas. Chūai then looked to the sea, but he could see nothing and denounced his belief in the promises of the gods. The gods were enraged by this and declared that he would die and never receive the promised land. Instead they would go to his conceived but unborn son. The legend then states that Chūai died soon after and his widow, Jingū, conquered the promised land, which is conjectured to be part of modern day Korea.

Siffblu wrote:

OMG AN ANAGRAM FOR TAGRUATO CORPORATION IS:

A Arrogant Octopi Tour

lol.

/humor off

iconsumer wrote:

http://tagruato.jp/headlines.php?story=news_07_06_02

The numerals 0 1 18 0 8 are scattered through out this news item, albeit some extra.

Just kind of stood out to me as a subtle nod to the players of the ARG, maybe.

MrToasty wrote:

WHOIS info for those interested:
http://whois.domaintools.com/tagruato.jp

Domain Information:
[Domain Name] TAGRUATO.JP
[Registrant] Daiske Kagashima
[Name Server] ns51.domaincontrol.com
[Name Server] ns52.domaincontrol.com
[Created on] 2007/07/25
[Expires on] 2008/07/31
[Status] Active
[Last Updated] 2007/07/25 23:38:22 (JST)
Contact Information:
[Name] Daiske Kagashima
[Email] Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by DomainTools.com
[Web Page]
[Postal code]
[Postal Address] 118-8336 Marunouchi
[Phone] 8105805681
[Fax]

keeno_82uk wrote:

it would seem the chance of it being in game is more likley now seeing as though the site was made in July probably during the start of JJ Abrams promo campain

MrToasty wrote:

Melampus wrote:

Can't wait for the ParafFun! and Bold Futura sites to come on-line.

"Coating your hard cheeses? ParafFun!"
"Improved bowel movement? ParafFun!"

W-Three wrote:

Bowel movement, is that a possible relation to the Jamie thing? Forgot exactly what was said though, so correct me if im wrong.

NYC5 wrote:

Yea, jamie was a uti, a urinary infection, this is bowel movements, helps ya drop that deuce (in medical terms lol)

Melampus wrote:

Ok, so, here's a breakdown of their drilling platforms, and TAKE NOTE that the order in which they went operational (w/the exception of the 5 that started on the same day in Feb. or 1995) is the same order of "Legendary [Japanese] Emperors" - listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emperors_of_Japan. Here's a list of the names of each platform and the date opened (I'd have included workforce and cost, but I can't figure out how to TAB and do neat columns here... argh!).

1. Jimmu 6/14/91 (Fri)
2.. Suizei 9/4/92 (Fri)
3. Annei 9/11/92 (Fri)
4. Itoku 9/18/92 (Fri)
5. Kosho 2/25/95 (Sat)
6. Koan 2/25/95 (Sat)
7. Korei 2/25/95 (Sat)
8. Kogen 2/25/95 (Sat)
9. Kaika 2/25/95 (Sat)
10. Sujin 11/7/98 (Sat)
11. Suinin 1/30/01 (Tue)
12. Keiko 5/17/03 (Sat)
13. Seimu 3/15/05 (Tue)
14. Chuai 9/07

So, February 25, 1995 was a banner day for the Tagruato Corp., eh? Five Drilling Platforms opened on the same day!

Anyway, for what it's worth...

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:24 am

Dr. Awkward
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Kraker wrote:

Amazing finds!!!!!

This + Jamieandteddy.com as well as the new picture have let me believe that this is an ARG once more! Thank you, whoever was in charge.

Although I must admit, it is quite creepy...

Quote:

"I felt like a pretty angel," said longtime Smiler! Kimi. "Dancing in front of those old folks showed them that just because they cannot leave their beds, the rest of us can, and the world is still a bright shiny place."

Dance in front of old people? Feeling like an angel?

Ecstasy anyone????

BTW, for anyone concerned, the links at the bottom of the page for privacy, legal, help, and site index all lead back to index2...

Henrik wrote:

iconsumer wrote:

I totally overlooked that on my first read-through... a rather cool detail..
I hope this site is legit - really need something to set the 'wheels in motion' again..

NYC5 wrote:

Totally Legit Dude...

Kraker wrote:

HAHAHAHHAA...

I wonder if this was a subtle hint to ARGers also...

Quote:

Ganu will accept the award at a gala ceremony on the conference's final day. "I have to give a speech," commented Ganu. "They hope for me to tell my secrets. They will get none."

Siffblu wrote:

Taken from the Slusho! Tagruato subsidiary page:

Slusho! has grown to the second most popular frozen drink in all Asian markets.

What is/was the first then?

Kraker wrote:

Oh and btw, sorry for the multiple posting, but here is something else that is quite interesting.

Quote:

agruato has positioned itself to become a world leader in energy resources, medical research, advanced technology production, and consumable product.

Consumable product? Their company only does deep sea drilling. It's quite obvious what they're drilling for... In the history section they say he drills for oil, but that's probably just what he says.

MrToasty wrote:

Quote:

Tagruato CEO to be honored at Pacific Oil Conference

The Pacific Oil Conference seems legit, and the dates are the same as mentioned in the press release:
http://www.petroshow.com/

W-Three wrote:

Anybody tried sending an email found on the contact page, im about to.

MrToasty wrote:

Quote:

Tagruato's crew of Slusho! Smilers! arrived at the Ibaraki Nursing Home in Mito yesterday with a special surprise for the feeble elders on Floor 3 - Slusho! brand happy drink! The lovely ladies handed out seven drinks to each senior in any flavor they could imagine.

"This Mikan-Strawberry Tasty makes me feel young again!" exclaimed 98-year-old Hiro Chinen.

Another aged lady asked to have a Nashi-Banana Anime hooked into her IV.

As the patients sucked their drinks down, the Slusho! Smilers! sang and danced to the Slusho! Song! Those who were able clapped along.

Seven drinks to each senior?! Sang the Slusho song?

At any rate, we now have a big corporation to add the possibility of a conspiratorial element.

Kraker wrote:

Quote:

Ganu Yoshida is set to meet with Tanzanian Energy Correspondent, Gamal Mobari in mid-October to discuss the potential for mineral excavation on the Tanzanian coast.

At a recent press conference, Yoshida had this to say: "Tanzania's coast houses a plentiful supply of minerals that are pivotal in the production of many of today's medical necessities. Our company would like to explore these possibilities in hopes of providing better service to our loyal customers and opening yet another door on our path to the future."

GOOD NEWS!

We now have a date to expect a new update Smile

Kraker wrote:

OH...MY...GOD...

Quote:

The company is currently working on the Slusho! Sea Freeze, a frozen pop that will be available for purchase in your local market and will contain the company's healthy special ingredient. The product will compliment the Make Your Own Slusho! kit already on market shelves.

OK CALM DOWN EVERYONE... JUST RUSH TO YOUR NEAREST MARKET AND LOOT THE PLACE FOR SLUSHO PRODUCTS!!!

OH AND BY THE WAY THIS WAS "RELEASED" ON MAY 28th, SO THE SEA FREAZE SHOULD BE OUT BY NOW!

Henrik wrote:

Yeah it�s legit... (guess I got a bit suspicious due to all the OOG sites/trailer etc. posted in the past month..)

I want to go work at the Korei Station near Greenland... perhaps I could get an 'inside scoop' (and discount on Slusho).. what qualifications do you need..?!

Kudos for finding the site...

Melampus wrote:

Some names to keep an eye out for, or even to look for on myspace, etc.:

Danno Jo, COO Targuato Corp.

Rafu Funaki, chair of Future Energy Development Committee, Targuato Corp.

Kano Yasuri, investor relations, Targuato Corp.

Fudo Goto (age 11) - 1st baseman, Targuato Lions Little League. Laughing

Masakuzo Endo - pitcher, Targuato Little League. Laughing

Geoff Jingle, Coach, Nishio Dragons Little League. Confused

Also, if you look at the timeline of things... Ganu took over in 1989. Before that, the company was floundering (no pun intended). Then, the Jimmu station finds the secret ingredient in 1991. In 1992, 3 more platforms start up, each one is coastal regions (Annei, Itoku, and Kosho). Then, in 1994, five platforms open on the same day - Feb 25.

It's not until 2007 that the platform opens in the N. Atlantic, which is presumably what sets off our monster and the attack on NYC.

So, the most plausible, non-fantastic story would be: Tagruato Corp. found their deep sea *whatever* and started plundering the oceans of the world in search of more of it, and finally, w/platform 14, they disturbed something big and, well.. peevish.

Makes sense to me. Either that, or the monster is a genetic hybrid of Noriko and a whale, and if you drink seven Slusho's, you'll also turn into a big whale-thing, or at least, a parasitic crab-thing...

One or t'other. Whatever floats your boat.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:29 am

Dr. Awkward
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iconsumer wrote:

Henrik wrote:

Just looked at the source codes for the Tagruato Corp. site... found this:

... img src="images/sidebar_whale.jpg" alt="whale breaching ocean surface" /...

... the whale 'theme' strikes again (on Slusho and here).. or it�s perhaps a coincidence...

Interesting... looked like a dolphin to me before you mentioned that.

avpruler wrote:

if ur serious about that, no offense but thats pure stupidity IMO(NO OFFENCE, ok), he wants an original movie, so I really doubt he's gonna copy the pattern of Godzilla, Confused

Quote:

i_c_weiner Wrote: He'll need to make more than one movie and not have the monster seem like the bad guy in the sequels, like Godzilla.

cmg wrote:

http://www.petroshow.com/index.html

the above is a link to the Pacific Oil Conference.. which is referenced on the tagruato site, I haven't had a chance to scour the site for IG v OOG, but it does take place on the same dates as the tagruato site suggests.. but it would be simple for them to simply reference a real conference

Melampus wrote:

avpruler wrote:

if ur serious about that, no offense but thats pure stupidity IMO(NO OFFENCE, ok), he wants an original movie, so I really doubt he's gonna copy the pattern of Godzilla, Confused

"You talkin' to me?"

avpruler wrote:

no, I quoted i_c_weaners post

Melampus wrote:

Oh, fair enough. Laughing

There's no mention in the Pacific Oil link about "Tagruato Corp" - which makes me think it's OOG, and they're just referencing it for the sake of authenticity.

avpruler wrote:

i_c_weiner wrote:

We think he's bad, but he's really good as we learn when the Bloop monster comes in the SEQUEL. JJ wants an American monster. He'll need to make more than one movie and not have the monster seem like the bad guy in the sequels, like Godzilla.

thats what I thought was stupid(no offence)

Melampus wrote:

Yeah - I don't think they're going to make this into a regular monster-movie series, anything like Godzilla. And, Bloop (for lack of a better name) sure as hell ain't gonna do battle with other monsters. That just doesn't fit with the realism 'twist' of this movie.

iconsumer wrote:

Melampus wrote:

Oh, fair enough. Laughing

There's no mention in the Pacific Oil link about "Tagruato Corp" - which makes me think it's OOG, and they're just referencing it for the sake of authenticity.

Agreed. The site also has logos of many real world companies, which is something I don't think this particular ARG would do (technically infringing on other people's copyrights / trademarks).

iconsumer wrote:

http://tagruato.jp/history.php wrote:

The origin of Tagruato goes back into 1945, when our creator, Kantaro Tagruato, founded a mining company in Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost island. Tagruato, who had emigrated to Japan from Polynesia with his family as young boy, started the company with dreams of "holding Earth's energy in my fist." He called his fledgling company 力の手.

The name of the original company translates to "The hand of power"

I think it's interesting this turn of events involving drilling for resources, especially in relation to the idea of the writers creating a monster that people in the USA could appreciate.

I mean, between the hot topic of global warming (tampering with our environment), oil (greed and corruption), and contaminated food (slusho?), if the Bloop was a creature awakened/created in relation to such topics, well, it'd just be a great modernization of the classic humanity-reflected-in-monster theme. Twisted Evil

TheBeginningIsTheEnd wrote:

Anyone have a clue what the japanese on the main Language Portal page background translates to?

Duckie wrote:

TheBeginningIsTheEnd wrote:

Anyone have a clue what the japanese on the main Language Portal page background translates to?

"Ta - Gu - Ru - A - To"

It's written in Katakana, a subset of the language that's used to transcribe foreign words.

You actually can't have the word "Tagruato" in Japanese, the closest is, indeed, "Taguruato". Either way, it's definitely not a Japanese word/name.

Interestingly enough, English is the ONLY language that works on the site (even japanese is a broken link, hah!)

TheBeginningIsTheEnd wrote:

Duckie wrote:

TheBeginningIsTheEnd wrote:

Anyone have a clue what the japanese on the main Language Portal page background translates to?

I thought of that as funny too, the kind of irony you get from having an American try and make a website that looks like its from Japan.

Duckie wrote:

TheBeginningIsTheEnd wrote:

I thought of that as funny too, the kind of irony you get from having an American try and make a website that looks like its from Japan.

I'm actually impressed that they have a reason for it not being a Japanese name: the company's founder was [from] Polynesia.

[edit]

jawbone wrote:

Go figure...
http://tagruato.jp/boldfutura_subsidiaries.php

boldfutura.com - parked

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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:30 am

Dr. Awkward
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W-Three wrote:

Funnily enough Futura Bold is a type of font. Probaly just a coincidence.

(Humor) What if the monster is, in fact, climate change!

Red Walrus wrote:

Anyone see this yet?
http://tagruato.jp/images/bold_futura_logo_1.gif

W-Three wrote:

Sorry about multiple posting but i just noticed something about the charity events. The one in the article mentions giving slusho to elderly people. The other two mentioned blankets and a circus trip.

Its interesting how the slusho one is specifically using a brand name slusho, while the others use unrelated products.

Maybe someone can connect this to something else.

The Vampirate wrote:

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but website in the other languages isn't available yet.

Edit: Oooo; Kaika Staion = Puerto Rico Trench ;]

Edit 2: Ok.. it kinda mentions it on the first post. Confused

My bad.

MrToasty wrote:

I'm sure of you have checked out Dr. Takahashi's page by now:
http://tagruato.jp/drtakahashi.php
Lots of talk about using deep sea ingredients for research into curing cancer and the like. Also lots of talk about the rather lengthy process of screening these compounds and possible cures for toxicity in humans.

Quote:

If it's a new compound, somebody would go about studying whether or not it could be a useful drug. So for example, using the screen, we might know that the compound kills pathogenic bacteria, but it wouldn't be a useful drug if it's too toxic to people, or gets broken down in the body too quickly, things like that! This might involve a "clinical trial": Trying the drug on real people after it's been through plenty of tests and development!

I wonder if they might be doing some rather unorthodox/unethical trials using they're elderly friends:

Quote:

The lovely ladies handed out seven drinks to each senior

Melampus wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^
nice - that's a good twist. Like Ben Stiller in Happy Gilmore, but not funny. Smile

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Melampus wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^
nice - that's a good twist. Like Ben Stiller in Happy Gilmore, but not funny. Smile

Thomas Mittlework ring a bell?
Wink

jawbone wrote:

Red Walrus wrote:

Anyone see this yet?
http://tagruato.jp/images/bold_futura_logo_1.gif

What about this?
http://tagruato.jp/images/bold_futura_logo.gif
or this
http://tagruato.jp/images/paraffun_logo_1.gif

AfterDystopia wrote:

Quote:

Another aged lady asked to have a Nashi-Banana Anime hooked into her IV.

This convinces me that there's some sort of drug element in Slusho!. Who gets a drink put directly into their bloodstream if they can't even taste it? Because that there's something in it which "makes [them] feel young again".

Just grasping at straws here, but maybe it's some sort of anti-aging drug? A bit of a stretch, but maybe the Fountain of Youth?

Euchre wrote:

I would call it evil, but has anyone tried to look up the number on the contact page? I imagine it's listed somehow in phone records in Japan if it's a real number. If it is listed, and it's named as being Tagruato's number, then I'd say it's worth calling it - if you can afford it.

Nighthawk wrote:

See? Told ya! Stop looking at the character's lives; follow the "odd man out"!

What's got my attention is Yoshida Medical Research... A genetic research company.

Quote:

Treatment applications for Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, and herpes are also under consideration.

Thank God! They're researching a cure for herpes! Don't panic, Jamie, there's still hope for ya!

YMR's web page points right back to the same site. But the "day in the life" is an interesting read.

Actually, a lot of links point back to the home page. Even the sitemap. Kinda looks as haphazard as when Slusho first started. Site might not be done yet.

They have all the bases covered:
- Slusho
- A generic research company
- A technology company to reach the depths of the Earth
- A... er... wax company.

Chuai says "Opening September 2007". Guess they're behind a bit... For the record, it's the closest one to New York and also the largest (workforce of 355).

Melampus wrote:

AfterDystopia wrote:

Just grasping at straws here, but maybe it's some sort of anti-aging drug? A bit of a stretch, but maybe the Fountain of Youth?

I think that's on the right track - in the "Slusho Ices Competitors" newsbit (under Investor News), it said:

Quote:

As the company completes comprehensive testing on their wonder ingredient, which is expected to reveal unmatched health benefits, stock prices in Slusho! are bound to continue to rise.

and, a bit earlier...

Quote:

the company is currently working on the Slusho! Sea Freeze, a frozen pop that will be available for purchase in your local market and will contain the company's healthy special ingredient.

AfterDystopia wrote:

Nighthawk wrote:

But the "day in the life" is an interesting read.

Whoever wrote that uses a few too many exclamation points for my liking... Very Happy

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Euchre wrote:

I called the number on the contact page... It's in Japanese then in English...

Tagruato Corp.'s recording wrote:

Thank you for calling Tagruato, due to high call volumes we have transfered your call to the automated answering service. There are NO UPDATES at this time. Please leave us a message and we will return your call.

Actual phone number internation further verifying the sites legitimacy.

badnuzjr wrote:

Anyone else think the story about the little league team is a poke at people claiming the line in the trailer started "It's a lion...."?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:32 am

Dr. Awkward
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Posts: 374
Location: Marunouchi - Tokyo, Japan

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Siffblu wrote:

AfterDystopia wrote:

Quote:

Another aged lady asked to have a Nashi-Banana Anime hooked into her IV.

I'm pretty sure that was intended to be a joke. =)

AfterDystopia wrote:

Siffblu wrote:

AfterDystopia wrote:

Quote:

Another aged lady asked to have a Nashi-Banana Anime hooked into her IV.

I'm pretty sure that was intended to be a joke. =)

Hey, ya never know. We've already established that it's addicting, and it apparently makes its drinkers really happy, so it isn't a long jump from that to some sort of hallucinigenic compound.

Nighthawk wrote:

badnuzjr wrote:

Anyone else think the story about the little league team is a poke at people claiming the line in the trailer started "It's a lion...."?

No doubt about, it if you ask me.

Melampus wrote:

This is pretty random, but it might figure in at some point...

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, at Columbia University in New York (or Jersey - not sure) houses a repository of deep-sea core samples taken around the world. Here are some links:

The general link is: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/

and, the Deep Sea Sample Repository link is: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/CORE_REPOSITORY/RHP1.html

The fact that it houses all those deep sea core samples and it's location made it vaguely interesting.

Snyde Comment wrote:

anyone wondered how they found the locations of the ingredient to drill for?

shot in the dark here - maybe its literal when they say you cant drink just six? those people were given 7 for a reason....so maybe if you do drink six something happens? but what reaction would happen if you had 6 rather than 7?

also.....i would say that the stuff is a never ending source where they drill. simply because none of the platforms have shut down have they? so they must still be getting something from them....

has anyone considered the possibility that the monster was a test subject of the stuff? there is no way they could know the limitations of the stuff (needs to be kept cold etc etc) without testing. maybe they gave it six, and were like....oh god.

i dunno, shitty ideas rly, have ur say.

Nighthawk wrote:

As far as I know, offshore oil platforms take a hell of a long time before they run dry. And all of the ones mentioned are relatively new, it seems.

Oniduo wrote:

I double dare somebody to call the tagruato phone number.

Doo Et!!!

TEL +81-3-5403-6318

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Oniduo wrote:

I double dare somebody to call the tagruato phone number.

Doo Et!!!

TEL +81-3-5403-6318

Go ahead and and call it...I already have Very Happy

This is an excerpt from approx. ten posts back...
(nobody acknowledged Rolling Eyes

)

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Euchre wrote:

I called the number on the contact page... It's in Japanese then in English...

Tagruato Corp.'s recording wrote:

Actual phone number internation further verifying the sites legitimacy.

The number's functional Wink

Oniduo wrote:

first thing is i think the website is incomplete because most of the links take you back to the start of the webpage so maybe in october the number will take you to a more informative automatic service and the website will expand more. Goodies!! Its like Christmas!

Melampus wrote:

Check it out!

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/09/30/new-cloverfield1-18-08-viral-website-tagruatojp/

Pay special attention to the last line:

Quote:

Thanks to the great people at the Unfiction Forums for a big chunk of the legwork and details that went into this update.

IronJ146 wrote:

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Oniduo wrote:

I double dare somebody to call the tagruato phone number.

Doo Et!!!

TEL +81-3-5403-6318

Go ahead and and call it...I already have Very Happy

This is an excerpt from approx. ten posts back...
(nobody acknowledged Rolling Eyes

)

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Euchre wrote:

I called the number on the contact page... It's in Japanese then in English...

Tagruato Corp.'s recording wrote:

Actual phone number internation further verifying the sites legitimacy.

The number's functional Wink

I'm assuming you left a message, right? Sweet, hopefully there'll actually be some interaction now.
This is exciting..."Pace is the trick"

deletia wrote:

At first I thought it was a total drag that we'd discovered this site now, so soon after the Pacific Oil Conference. If we'd discovered it a bit earlier and had a man or woman out in Reno, perhaps there would have been some sort of opportunity there, right?

But then it occurred to me that this site was discovered originally via "kaitei no mitsu," which is on the back of the card at 1-18-08 (which led to the menuism thing), and the new card was posted conveniently just after September 20. All of which seems to indicate that we discovered this site exactly when we were supposed to.

avpruler wrote:

no wonder we never found this, it doesn't show up on google, ask.com, or any search engine, even if you put in:

http://Tagruato.jp/

you just get:

Your search - http://tagruato.jp/ - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.

Kraker wrote:

ParafFUN! wax distributors???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin

Quote:

The solid forms of paraffin, called paraffin wax

Quote:

Paraffin liquid: a mixture of heavier alkanes, has a number of names, including nujol, adepsine oil, alboline, glymol, medicinal paraffin, saxol, or USP mineral oil. It is often used in infrared spectroscopy, as it has a relatively uncomplicated IR spectrum. When the sample to be tested is made into a mull (a very thick solution), liquid paraffin is added so it can be spread on the disks to be tested. Liquid paraffin (medicinal) is used to aid bowel movement in persons suffering chronic constipation; it passes through the alimentary canal without itself being taken into the body, but it limits the amount of water removed from the stool. In the food industry, where it may be called "wax", it can be used as a lubricant in mechanical mixing, applied to baking tins to ensure that loaves are easily released when cooked and as a coating for fruit or other items requiring a "shiny" appearance for sale.

Now here is the deal. Why is Ganu interested in wax? There have already been references to liquid bacteria...

It also can help people medically, and be used in the food industry as a lubricant.

MrToasty wrote:

This from the Slusho! subsidiary page

Quote:

A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market.

would finally seem to legitimize the speculation that Rob may be going to work for Slusho.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:34 am

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fitofjoy wrote:

Under "Rob Hawkins's Details" on Rob's myspace, his occupation is in Marketing. The fact that the Tagruato site specifically mentions needing marketing for the Western market is a pretty big clue.

Another clue that Rob will probably work for Tagruato is the article "Testaments of happiness and gratitude from Tagruato's finest" from the Tagruato website, which is all about how good it is to work for the company. If someone was going to uproot their life and move to Japan, it'd have to be an amazing job.

From the article:

Quote:

The study found that Tagruato was in the top ninety-fifth percentile for wages, health benefits, and overall employee morale. They also received high grades for their retirement savings plans and investment opportunities. Workers cited their pride in the Tagruato Cares foundation and their card allowing for half-off Slusho! at any participating vendors as some of their most favorable factors.

Melampus wrote:

Many posts back, there was mention of a "scandal" in the 80's for Targuato Corp. It must have been mentioned on the company website somewhere, but I can't find it - anyone remember where the 'scandal' is mentioned? And, I mean, where is it mentioned on the Targuato Corp. website, not this forum (i.c.weiner mentioned in back on p.2 or 3 of this thread)? Thanks.

Siffblu wrote:

Quote:

Hard Times

The golden age could not last. The 1980s brought decline, scandal, and great losses to Tagruato's dream. Mining, still 力の手's main function, was a rapidly declining industry in the '80s. Domestically, it became more financially viable to import coal. Demand for zinc and lead decreased. In response, 力の手 was forced to cut jobs and salaries.

Throughout the decade, the company was falsely accused of various malfeasances, none of which were anchored in truth. Though Tagruato himself was becoming elderly, he still was running the corporation, and blame was placed upon his hobbled shoulder. When the defamations became public, Tagruato -- ashamed by his company's soiled reputation -- laid upon his sword. 力の手 went bankrupt. The dream, it appeared, was over.

Under the Company History section.

Dr. Awkward wrote:

fitofjoy wrote:

Quote:

Here's an excerpt from the former article fitofjoy is referring to I think...this is a link that gives a lotta pull to Rob getting a job for Tagruato Corp.. Now that the Ganu's site is out in the open we may see something on Rob's myspace giving even more evidence supporting this theory...

Slusho! wrote:

A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market. Our aspiration is to one day place Slusho! dispensers in every convenience store and mini mart. Slusho zoom!

Melampus wrote:

Many thanks, Siffblu, for pointing me to the 'scandal' reference.

After reading through that history again, and some other news pieces, here are some quick thoughts:

1. People were wondering about the ParafFun - why are they making that?
I think it's a hold-over from the old Targuato Corp., before Ganu took over:

Quote:

In mid 1970s, 力の手 staked a claim in the rapidly expanding petrochemical industry, producing plastics, polystyrene, and polypropylene

2. Under Investor News, in a 7/2/07 piece entitled "Investor Conference Held in Tokyo" it's reported that 12 of the 14 ships in their fleet will be upgraded with double-hulls - the extra hill "functions as an additional shell that distances the oil storage compartments from the dangers of the sea by a few feet, should the tanker run aground or strike a reef or iceberg." Do you suppose their ships have been damaged by something out near one or more of the platforms? Or, is this just routine?

3. "You can't drink just six" might just be a reference to the fact that there are "six combinable 'happy drink' flavors" and the "Make Your Own Slusho! kit already on market shelves." If there's a make-your-own "kit" then there's no standard flavor of Slusho! A make-your-own kit is pretty unusual for a drink, so that would be what people associated with Slusho! So, it would explain their odd slogan/motto.

cmg wrote:

i'm sure some of you have seen this already.. but a simple googling of the name akemi takahashi (the wife that dr. takahashi references) points mostly to an apparently famous female bodybuilder of that name..

this detail is obviously oog.. but i think it's sort of funny and perhaps an intentional joke on their part

Melampus wrote:

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't be the first joke like that. At the Pacific Oil Conf., Ganu was supposedly "honored with the Khodorkovsky Award for innovation." A search for that name turns up this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm

Colori wrote:

Hm. Did anyone else think that Slusho! in the little league section sounded like steroids?

The Slusho! Powered lions...

I hit the ball far! <- sounds like stupid.

Company sponsored team destroys the competition

Destorys. sounds frightening.

Also, anyone look up the team they were going against? Nishio Dragons? Doing so now.

Edit: AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA.

Done.

It seems, Daisuke Nishio made some dragon ball Z.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Cough. sorry.

JJ's having a bit too much fun with his names.

Euchre wrote:

MrToasty wrote:

This from the Slusho! subsidiary page

Quote:

A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market.

would finally seem to legitimize the speculation that Rob may be going to work for Slusho.

What we really need now is a genuine marketing person with an existing resume to apply to the address in the Contact Us section. I would hope if they respond it'd be something along the lines of "this is just a promotion for a movie, sorry to inconvenience you".

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Melampus wrote:

3. "You can't drink just six" might just be a reference to the fact that there are "six combinable 'happy drink' flavors" and the "Make Your Own Slusho! kit already on market shelves." If there's a make-your-own "kit" then there's no standard flavor of Slusho! A make-your-own kit is pretty unusual for a drink, so that would be what people associated with Slusho! So, it would explain their odd slogan/motto.

Definitely seems as if some conspiratorial agenda may be brewin' Twisted Evil

Slusho! wrote:

Nobody can drink just six!!...and this company sees to that apparently. Wink

They made sure even the feeble folks of the Ibaraki Nursing Home in Mito each got more than six Slusho!'s.

What's the motivation?? Confused

Kingpin wrote:

Dr. Awkward wrote:

What's the motivation?? Confused

Pure unadulterated evil! Twisted Evil

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Colori wrote:

Hm. Did anyone else think that Slusho! in the little league section sounded like steroids?...

lol...
Combine that w/ the reference of the effects of kaitei no mitsu (Seabed's Nectar0 that Vernon MacDooble experienced @ Garbanzos and there may be some type of theory forming...

The Doobster wrote:

...It was as if I tasted the food not just with my tongue buds but with my very soul. A feeling of great strength washed over me, as though I could take a boulder into my fist and squeeze it into a pebble. My fork became a scepter, raised high as I envisioned myself conquering the Nordic empire and laying waste to any filthy peasant who stood in my path. Glorious

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Kingpin wrote:

Dr. Awkward wrote:

What's the motivation?? Confused

Pure unadulterated evil! Twisted Evil

lol...

Muha...
Muhahaha...
Muhahahahahahahahah Twisted Evil

W-Three wrote:

Going back to the whole "You can't drink just six" phrase...

The fact that the company made sure they drank more than six.

"They made sure even the feeble folks of the Ibaraki Nursing Home in Mito each got more than six Slusho!'s."

Does make it sound like there is something possibly 'dangerous' to it. For example, certain drugs (medicinal) have a minimum dosage. So possibly drinking six or less may damage the body. Or (as there are six flavors) perhaps having all 6 flavors at equal proportions creates something deadly, so you have to have a 7th one to make an imbalance. Of course this is a bit of a stretch, but it does sound like you 'have' to drink more than six.

Helo wrote:

This is a cool find, although I still think it's marketing vs. ARG, and I lean toward marketing.

What's even funnier is that most of you are acting like this is your first time having angry nerd sex. Calm down, people!

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:35 am

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jawbone wrote:

Found a couple more pics.
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo.jpg on the page http://tagruato.jp/profile.php
then
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_1.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_2.jpg

e2c wrote:

hey every1 i just registered after reading up a lot of stuff on 1-18-08, these forums and that new viral website tagruato.jp. i really think (and hope) this site is legit. it all seems to make sense considering the "clues" on that site. deep sea genetic research and more...

on http://www.tagruato.jp/headlines.php?story=news_07_07_29 however, it says Tagruato CEO Ganu Yoshida will be honored with the Khodorkovsky Award for innovation. Google searches for this "award for innovation" remained unsuccessful.

the biggest clue for me YET is this news article:

http://www.tagruato.jp/headlines.php?story=news_07_06_02

Quote:

� Tagruato Lions win Little League Championship
The Tagruato Lions Little League Team are victors once again! For the third straight summer, the Slusho! fueled Lions became league champs after defeating the Nishio Dragons by way of forfeit. The game was called midway through the 4th inning, with the Lions already leading 18-0 thanks to four homeruns by slugging first baseman, Fudo Goto, 11.

"I hit the ball far," said a jubilant Fudo following the game.

Lions pitcher Masakuzo Endo (8-0) had nine strike outs and thirteen hit batsman. Nishio coach Geoff Jingle was forced to forfeit after he looked to his bench and found no Dragons brave enough to step to the plate.

slusho seems to make the players strong and notice all the number dropping?? 18-0,11

iconsumer wrote:

I'd just like to make a point about "Can't drink just six."

Seeing as this ARG has so far not stretched beyond the bounds of reality too far (i.e. being fairly realistic in terms of human behavior etc.), it seems to me highly unlikely that they would imagine a situation where if someone drinks less than six Slusho! drinks that something bad would happen.

Seriously, if Slusho! is huge in Japan, and Japan's population is obviously very large, the likely hood that _someone_ has at sometime drank less than six would obviously happen eventually.

I think it's pure IG marketing... a throwback to Pringles "Once you pop, you can't stop" if you will.

If anything, based on what I've heard about JJ and the Lost fanboys, they're reading unfiction, and maybe wrote the number 7 in relation to the old people just to fuck with everyone. :')

iconsumer wrote:

e2c wrote:

Not everything referenced IG is associated with OOG reality. I think they tend to steer clear from most real world connections that would make the ARG seem obviously unreal. (i.e. it could be plausible the award is simply something us in the USA wouldn't be able to find readily on the 'net, where-as if he was up for a Nobel peace prize, it'd be pretty obvious it was a fake).

I know that it's all fiction to begin with as does everyone obviously, but I think they have done really well to create a sense of reality which makes it all so much more intense as the real-time date arrives!

e2c wrote:

yea i know what you mean. i doubt you wouldnt find any google result on the award though even if it was more of a local thing (within the US).

still pretty good shit how they worked out everything. really enjoying this sort of marketing! Laughing

does anyone remember *lol* who 1st found the site? like who was the 1st one to throw this link on the imdb forums, /film or even these forums? might have been someone involved in the whole project to start with(?).

e2c wrote:

the contact details on the website are invalid as well. http://tagruato.jp/contact.php

Quote:

As someone who lived in Japan for quite some time, specifically the Tokyo area, this address is invalid. For starters, the postal code does not exist. Second, there is no Palace Plaza in Marunouchi. Lastly, the phone number is missing a couple of digits before it could be remotely valid.

taken from:
http://1-18-08.livejournal.com/2763.html

iconsumer wrote:

e2c wrote:

Tagruato.jp?

Actually two people here followed some clues to find it.

iconsumer wrote:

Forum member Dr. Awkward found the following review (posted Sept 24th) after googling "kaitei no mitsu", as found in the Japanese text on the back of the new picture.

http://www.menuism.com/users/deliciousmacdoob/reviews

Then forum member MrToasty found the Tagruato website (Tagruato is mentioned in the above review), I'm assuming by simply typing in Tagruato.jp (because Tagruato brings up nothing in google for me).

e2c wrote:

oh thats great thanks so people actually followed all the clues n found it themselves.

does anyone else think "lost" when they click on the different drilling stations on http://www.tagruato.jp/deepsea2.php ? Laughing

Red Walrus wrote:

jawbone wrote:

Found a couple more pics.
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo.jpg on the page http://tagruato.jp/profile.php
then
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_1.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_2.jpg

Good one jawbone.
The site is quite sloppy with their unused site pictures.
One thing I never noticed before is the Tagruato Logo on the floor...very cool detail.

Colori wrote:

Hip adult drinkers have begun concocting deliciously intoxicating alcoholic mix drinks starring Slusho!

sounds like what they were drinking at the party. (found this on the tagruato slusho page)

might explain a small connection to the movie.

jojo wrote:

MrToasty wrote:

This from the Slusho! subsidiary page

Quote:

A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market.

would finally seem to legitimize the speculation that Rob may be going to work for Slusho.

It definitely seems to be pointing this way -- and if the producers didn't somehow work in a monster.com tie in here, they have really missed the boat.

jojo wrote:

It seemed to me from reading that the employees aren't really "happy", but are too high on Slusho! to realize that they're working in a sweatshop.

This statement sounds pretty ominous/threatening:

Quote:

"In the past, the reputation of Tagruato has been sullied by reports of mistreating their employees," announced Ganu. "I have personally seen to it that no such claims will ever be made again."

And then followed by this:

Quote:

Workers cited their pride in the Tagruato Cares foundation and their card allowing for half-off Slusho! at any participating vendors as some of their most favorable factors.

Seems to suggest that giving everyone discounted Slusho solved all of their labor problems, because all of a sudden everyone became Slusho! Happy!

eleven11 wrote:

e2c wrote:

the contact details on the website are invalid as well. http://tagruato.jp/contact.php

Quote:

taken from:
http://1-18-08.livejournal.com/2763.html

Along with the mentions of slusho and the WHOIS data, that really just further proves that the site is IG since it the company doesn't actually exist.

crazedstapler wrote:

i was looking through the investors area and saw in an 'article' that they were buying new ships or something along those lines. its not really that important. but i was googling some of the names and whatnot and i google Watatsumi.. because in the article they mentioned a Watatsumi Shipbuilding Corp. or something.

what came up was somewhat interesting. there were some links on there about something called the watatsumi-no-kami, or the sea-god. i couldnt find much of anything else... and this has already probably been brought up. but oh well. just thought it was interesting.

jojo wrote:

Quote:

力の手

Is this kanote? or kanoshu? Why is this in Japanese when nothing else on that page is? Seems like a big hint.

Also, "ka" is in katakana (i.e. foreign word)-- could this be the Egyptian "ka", meaning a person's "life-force" that is Egyptians believe was "sustained through food and drink"?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_soul

Also, some new characters mentioned on the Tagruato site:

Danno Jo: COO of Tagruato and Ganu Yoshida's cousin and "right hand man"

Rafu (Ralph?) Funaki: Chairman of the Future Energy Development Committee

Suzume Soga: Company spokeswoman

Kano Yasuri: head of investor relations

Kantaro Tagruato: company founder, who killed himself right before the old Tagruato company went bankrupt.

How much does this look like the Hanso Foundation site?? Right down the the shadowy pictures of the CEOs, suggestions of unethical misconduct and the different symbol/logos for each company. Not that I'm complaining, I'll take anything at this point, but someone in TPTB really has it in for big business.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:36 am

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Uninvited wrote:

jojo wrote:

Quote:

Workers cited their pride in the Tagruato Cares foundation and their card allowing for half-off Slusho! at any participating vendors as some of their most favorable factors.

Seems to suggest that giving everyone discounted Slusho solved all of their labor problems, because all of a sudden everyone became Slusho! Happy!

There's definitely something in slusho that makes you happier and perhaps stronger and younger.

brettoniasam wrote:

Doesn't Rob *already* work for Slusho?

Remember his post on his MSP about trying out some new marketing software his boss had given him...

Also, another name to add to the list (above) of new people appearing on the Tagruato site: Chef Nakamura, from Garbanzo's, the restaurant in Sandefjord, Norway. He's the guy who fed "Vernon Macdooble" the mysterious meal, which is probably the recipe given out on 1-18-08.com.

I'm thinking Chef Nakamura is either the guy on the 1-18-08 pic, or maybe the young Asian dude at Rob's party...???

InAFieldofClover wrote:

Hmm.. CloverfieldClues.com seems to think this site is OOG. Anyone else buy into this theory? I don't for a few reasons:

1. The site was registered at the end of July. If this was a hoax, I doubt the owner would take this long to spread it around the internet.
2. JJ said in July that there were more sites we hadn't found yet. It took two months (almost to the day) to find this. Aside from this site and Slusho, what other sites have been discovered from that month? (Jamie's site doesn't count) None. There's more out there.
3. The call-in number wouldn't be the work of an amateur. What hoax sites have paid that close attention to detail?
4. It's too in-depth. Fake sites are more or less rush jobs put together by people looking to capitalize on the hype, intended to be ready ASAP. This site is too well-done to have been completed in a few days.
5. It was updated regularly even though no one had found it. It was waiting for us to find it.

If it's fake, this gets my vote for the best spoof thus far. But I'm 99.9% sure it's real.

brettoniasam wrote:

InAFieldofClover wrote:

Yeah, it's legit.

I think someone at Cloverfieldclues (which is usually a good site) -- namely, Dennis -- is just peeved that he didn't know anything about Tagruato until Unfiction posted it, and childishly dismissed it as a "spoof."

Euchre wrote:

Indeed, I can't quite see why a gamejacker would be so insightful to register the domain less than a month after the trailer was released, sit on it for so long, then release it like this.

colbyrook wrote:

On the interactive map of drilling stations, has anyone thought of or tried to use a program like BB flashback or another screen recorder to slow down the flash, and analyse the code that comes up below whilst the station details are being formed? Do you know which one I mean? Maybe chuai the station would be of specific interest?

Red Walrus wrote:

Why it has to be Legit for me is the first lead came from 1-18-08 itself and it you do the google search for "kaitei no mitsu" it comes up with the review with the Tagruato reference. End of story.

I suppose everyone could do their own translation but I trust Lasher as he has been a poster here for a while. That would be the only thing that would keep this from being legit -- a fake translation(which I highly doubt). Someone else should confirm Lashers' tranlation of the word.

Kaitei no --- is fairly easy to prove:
For Kai -- http://www.kanjisite.com/html/start/rhsinfo/r_kaiumi.html
For tei -- http://www.kanjisite.com/html/start/rhsinfo/r_teisoko.html
For no -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_%28kana%29

Even with just that(Kaitei no) -- the review clue will come up:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Kaitei+no&hl=en&safe=off&start=40&sa=N

mitsu does seem to represent nectar\honey. I just haven't found that last symbol yet. Has anyone else?

But even with Kaitei no which comes right from the 1-18-08 site it quickly leads to the review with the Tagruato reference. So it's legit to me.

{EDIT} Ha... just found the last symbol:
http://www.formosa-translation.com/chinese/h/hh70.html

iconsumer wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

Pretty sure it's just random gibberish, as every time I click on the same one it comes out with different symbols (trust me, I have a good eye for patterns like that).

AlexGrave wrote:

Anyone try calling the number? If not I'll do it.

colbyrook wrote:

iconsumer wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

Pretty sure it's just random gibberish, as every time I click on the same one it comes out with different symbols (trust me, I have a good eye for patterns like that).

Ok then.... if you say so. My computer is crap Crying or Very sad

so I'll trust you to know . Anyone know if the contact e-mail for the site works? I got a plan....

InAFieldofClover wrote:

AlexGrave wrote:

Anyone try calling the number? If not I'll do it.

Dr. Awkward wrote:

Euchre wrote:

I called the number on the contact page... It's in Japanese then in English...

Tagruato Corp.'s recording wrote:

Actual phone number internation further verifying the sites legitimacy.

MrToasty wrote:

^^^
Was just about to post that.

However, if you're still willing to call, what would really be cool is if you could record the message and post it here for the rest of us to hear. No one has done that yet to my knowledge.

AlexGrave wrote:

Anyone try calling the number? If not I'll do it.

deletia wrote:

Two brief comments... 1) If this is a gamejack, I'm as happy to play along with the impostor as I was with the original. Happier, in fact. 2) This has been mentioned before, but I'd just like to emphasize: Chuai station seems really significant. It's just now started drilling into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and New York is due West.

colbyrook wrote:

guess no one's gonna ask me what my plan is then...... Sad

InAFieldofClover wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

guess no one's gonna ask me what my plan is then...... Sad

I'll take the bait. What's the plan?

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:37 am

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AlexGrave wrote:

Alright I'm getting ready to call the number and am going to try to record it, be back in a few.

colbyrook wrote:

InAFieldofClover wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

guess no one's gonna ask me what my plan is then...... Sad

I'll take the bait. What's the plan?

Thank god! Very Happy

Ok... so back in The Lost Experience last year, I found that some of the info was gained by gamers actually interacting with the game creators.... [e.g. hanso foundation, apollo candy, mittlwork, lost ninja, etc.]. If they hadn't of done this, the games would have not progressed (or taken longer to do so). Second thing..... earlier this month, a guy over on cloverfieldnews or cloverfieldclues (cant remember which one) messaged one of the characters on myspace...., and got an actual response- people are obviously there to interact with

So here's my plan.... instead of waitin around for things to be discovered like I've been doin, I'm gonna try and get into it. I'm about to e-mail the following to the taguato email contact (18kagashimadSPLATtagruato.jp):

"

To Whom it May Concern,

I am somewhat interested in employment opportunities with Tagruato Corp, specifically working with marketing of Slusho! products. On you website you have stated that "A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market". How is it possible to become an applicant for these positions? If you can give me contact information for your head of marketing or head of employment, I will send my extended resume to your offices with haste.

I will briefly tell you about myself: I am currently living in New York City, United States of America, in a small apartment in Manhattan. Previously residing in Australia, I have gained a degree in Bachelor and Masters Business Marketing (University of Sydney, 1999). I have had previous experience in marketing international events and products, specifically boating races (for example, I was the chief marketing organiser for the Sydney to Hobart Australian Yacht race [http://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com], as well as international world boat races for several concurrent years [http://www.widmorerace.com] [http://www.microtransat.org]). I have also been involved in the trans-national marketing of specific products and services, including Gannon Car Rentals, "FULL O' NUTS" candy bars [http:\\www.apollocandy.com] and Ripple Potato Chips just to name a few. I am currently just finishing work with an airline company, helping it 'get back on it's feet' after an incident numerous years ago- I can offer you a referral from them about me if it is appropriate.

My current living position being America, I think, would suit your motive to move into the western market appropriately. I would greatly appreciate any opportunity you could give me.

Awaiting your reply,

Jason Mc Gillan

[extended contact information can be supplied if need be]

"

So good plan or no? Remember this site has been around for a while and we haven't noticed it... how much more stuff is already out there that we just haven't made the move to access it? Maybe the big drought of information we've just had is our own fault....

lol if its stupid don't rip into me please Embarassed

At least I'm tryin

AlexGrave wrote:

Go for it....

DANG IT somone tell me how to dial in this number I keep getting a "cannot be completed as dial" >_< *has everything set up to record*

InAFieldofClover wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

InAFieldofClover wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

guess no one's gonna ask me what my plan is then...... Sad

I'll take the bait. What's the plan?

Thank god! Very Happy

At least I'm tryin

Hey, go for it. Any lead is a good lead at this point. I'm sure some people thought it was silly to message the characters on myspace in the beginning but many had an interaction with them that at least proved to be entertaining.

MrToasty wrote:

colbyrook - It's worth a shot - go for it.

And as far as the site being around and us not finding it, I don't think there was any way for us to find it before this latest clue. Searching directly for Tagruato in Google only brings up the restaurant review and discussion since the find. Google most likely has not crawled the site, so even looking for Slusho and Ganu Yoshida wouldn't have found it.

Uninvited wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

So good plan or no? Remember this site has been around for a while and we haven't noticed it... how much more stuff is already out there that we just haven't made the move to access it? Maybe the big drought of information we've just had is our own fault....

Well, we only found it because of the picture on 1-18-08.com. Which was put up two days ago. So, I'd say we found it on time.

Ah, MrToasty beat me to it.

colbyrook wrote:

Uninvited wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

Well, we only found it because of the picture on 1-18-08.com. Which was put up two days ago. So, I'd say we found it on time.

Yeah I guess so... just thought I'd pose the question.

*btw my name is colby rook, not J. Mc Gillan, and I live in Australia, not Manhattan. Just thought that, along with the lost ty-ins in the e-mail might spark something (as well as similarities to what we know about Rob).

MrToasty wrote:

Ha - brief and cynical, yet a humorous and fairly true take on this latest development:
Cloverleaf, JJ Abrams, Viral Marketing�all getting old.

i_c_weiner wrote:

Mentioning the film as "Cloverleaf" is the most hilarious part of that whole article, to me.

colbyrook: Very good idea. The best strategy for us would be a good offense, especially considering people think we're behind. I just can't wait for some n00b to come along and make a thread called "Z0MG!1! $10 GUY FROM TRAILLER IS NAMED JASON McGILLIAN!1!" if this gets us somewhere.

colbyrook wrote:

i_c_weiner wrote:

lol sure

Red Walrus wrote:

I'm bumping this cause I edited so many times.

So here it is-- a step by step translation of "kaitei no mitsu". I don't know how Lasher got it but I had to do it for myself after a few people were distrusting the translation.

If the blue oven mitt fits it must be legit. Smile

elvis cocho wrote:

are'nt the letters on the privacy terms section looking like ethan haas letter dont flame as i wont check back and see you flame me

InAFieldofClover wrote:

elvis cocho wrote:

are'nt the letters on the privacy terms section looking like ethan haas letter dont flame as i wont check back and see you flame me

O...k then.

colbyrook wrote:

elvis cocho wrote:

are'nt the letters on the privacy terms section looking like ethan haas letter dont flame as i wont check back and see you flame me

flame you? ah... ok Shocked

anyway the 'privacy and legal' link doesnt even work*!

*yet [on my computer anyhoo]

colbyrook wrote:

any1 know whats with 0-00-00.com? is it official or fan-made?

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stugots wrote:

anyone try telling Rob that this company is looking for marketing talent?

PmpdAlig8tr wrote:

Also this: Very Happy

the_velociraptor wrote:

So, maybe the Kaiju in Cloverfield is created by this corporation?

Euchre wrote:

stugots wrote:

anyone try telling Rob that this company is looking for marketing talent?

Isn't that Teddy's job? Wink

biff wrote:

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but Tagruato's logo (upper lefthand corner of the page) changes if you click on it.

The logo as it usually stands is of two hands propping up the world in a somewhat benevelont manner. What appears to be the rising of sun of Japan sits behind a picture of the world with the Eastern hemisphere facing out - i.e. Japan.

Now click on either that logo or other hyperlinks and you will get a very quick glimpse of another logo. This one is a single hand grasping the whole world. And this time, the Western hemisphere is facing out - i.e. NYC?

Perhaps Tagruato has a large role to play in the movie. The second logo is rather menacing and seems to have a directed purpose to the "west". Why else would Tagruato not have just kept the eastern hemisphere logo in the alternative.

Jon8907 wrote:

biff wrote:

Your eyes are really fast! I can see the form of the hand but the picture switches back to the normal view before i can focus my eyes on it. Good find.

CloverfieldClues.com wrote:

brettoniasam wrote:

I think someone at Cloverfieldclues (which is usually a good site) -- namely, Dennis -- is just peeved that he didn't know anything about Tagruato until Unfiction posted it, and childishly dismissed it as a "spoof."

Wow! That's pretty rude. Why would I be peeved at Unfiction? Last time I checked I had more posts here than you. Wink

Two words for you: Ethan Hass

Uninvited wrote:

I just noticed that the station opening by NYC has the largest workforce. Which meens that there is going to be alot of work done there, or that there is something special there.

colbyrook wrote:

stugots wrote:

anyone try telling Rob that this company is looking for marketing talent?

just sent him this:

Quote:

Hey man read ur profile... I know you've just finished your stuff with marketing and I found this on the net..... www.tagruato.jp

go to the 'slusho' section in subsidiaries... they're lookin for western marketers dude!
Listen... I know a guy who knows a guy that works with slusho over in japan.... he said they'rll b big bucks in western marketting of the drink.... the Asians are crazy over the stuff apparently.

Anyway, I've sent them an e-mail to apply myself.... they dont give much info but hopefully they'll reply soon... I told them about my work with the widmore race and alike.

Anyhoo... check it out man.... you may have a future in this sort of thing!

Euchre wrote:

PmpdAlig8tr wrote:

Also this: Very Happy

That appears to be a dolphin. Yes, it's an ocean mammal like a whale.
I think they put it there on porpoise

iconsumer wrote:

biff wrote:

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but Tagruato's logo (upper lefthand corner of the page) changes if you click on it.

Not seeing it.

McPhearson wrote:

Good find, Biff. I am, however, going to be have to agree with Jon on this one: your eyes must be super-quick. I can barely make out the image of the hand aggressively holding the globe, before the whole thing refreshes. Whatever it means, you're right. It's heck-a menacing.

biff wrote:

iconsumer wrote:

biff wrote:

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but Tagruato's logo (upper lefthand corner of the page) changes if you click on it.

Not seeing it.

It's quite subtle, but it is definitely there. If you just keep clicking on the logo it will pop up more frequently.

And, I was reading a previous post and apparently Targuato means "hand of power" or something like that. The "hidden" logo fits well with that translation.

crazedstapler wrote:

here� [url] http://tagruato.jp/images/nav_backup.jpg [/url]

Red Walrus wrote:

Cool find, I would never of seen that.

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McPhearson wrote:

Great job, Stapler. Good picture. With this new logo, it makes me wonder if Tagruato is really as clean cut a company as it sounds. Not to mention the Ganu Yoshida picture on the "About Us -> Company Profile" page. Hmm... an evil empire with a peaceful facade? Twisted Evil

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

I can't seem to see that logo changed, and I even decompiled the nav.swf file...strange. Every time I click on it the page just reloads.

Anyway, I didn't see these few pictures posted in the thread. More unused images:

http://tagruato.jp/images/drilling_map_1.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/drilling_map_2.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/paraffun_logo_3.gif
http://tagruato.jp/images/Itoku_station_1.gif

drilling_map_1 and _2 are notable, since they both focus on the new Chuai station, while the original drilling_map.jpg on the page has Jimmu station highlighted.

Euchre wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

I can't seem to see that logo changed, and I even decompiled the nav.swf file...strange. Every time I click on it the page just reloads.

Decompiled the flash and it isn't there? Imagine that.

Quote:

Anyway, I didn't see these few pictures posted in the thread. More unused images:

http://tagruato.jp/images/drilling_map_1.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/drilling_map_2.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/paraffun_logo_3.gif
http://tagruato.jp/images/Itoku_station_1.gif

drilling_map_1 and _2 are notable, since they both focus on the new Chuai station, while the original drilling_map.jpg on the page has Jimmu station highlighted.

Actually the little indicator is smack dab on NYC, whilst the actual drilling site as we know is in the middle of the Atlantic. VERY interesting.

colbyrook wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

Hey yeah I cant see it either! Bummer.... must be there tho.

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

Ah, I wasn't paying attention, heh. And yeah, I have no idea where that screenshot came from, but unless there's some trickery with multiple flash files, I didn't see it in http://tagruato.jp/swf/nav.swf

colbyrook wrote:

Euchre wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

I can't seem to see that logo changed, and I even decompiled the nav.swf file...strange. Every time I click on it the page just reloads.

Decompiled the flash and it isn't there? Imagine that.

Quote:

Actually the little indicator is smack dab on NYC, whilst the actual drilling site as we know is in the middle of the Atlantic. VERY interesting.

Yes the Atlantic station is far farther out east then on the real indicator... maybe tagruato corp have set up, or plan to set up a drilling station closer to NYC than previously expected...

Euchre wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

Flash files can reference other flash files, but you'd see a pointer in the scripting of the file. I would guess your decompiler might be capable of extracting the scripting as well as the images and sound?

iconsumer wrote:

crazedstapler wrote:

here.

You're gonna have to tell us how to see it exactly because I'm not getting anything even remotely looking like that.

Even though it would definitely fit with the entire scheme of things, I'm calling bull shit till someone can verify.

McPhearson wrote:

Let me just say, I think I speak for a large majority of us when I say, if this friggin' site is O.O.G., I'm gunna ticked. Especially after it has several things pointing to clarification of theories we've all been discussing.

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

Euchre wrote:

Yeah, I'm looking through but there don't seem to be any other files referenced.

crazedstapler wrote:

call bull shit all you want.

it took me 10 goddamn minutes to get that thing to pop up when someone said they saw it. i left the site 3 times because it wouldnt work.

try clicking on the inactive links on the bottom, so it takes you back to the main screen, and then just re-enter. thats how it started working for me.

iconsumer wrote:

crazedstapler wrote:

Hey, it's all good. Just needed another reference, and some instructions.

(still not seeing it btw)

crazedstapler wrote:

i wasn't getting defensive. i was just saying, its no big if you don't believe me.

i don't think there's much that we could do with that information right now anyways. sure, it hints that there is a dark side to tagruato.. but that's a given. there's a dark side to every conglomerate in the world.

except maybe pepsico. how can there be a dark side to the people who make mountain dew.

MrToasty wrote:

Voila!!!!

Just check the page source, find this:
http://tagruato.jp/images/nav_backup.jpg

iconsumer wrote:

MrToasty wrote:

Just check the page source, find this:
http://tagruato.jp/images/nav_backup.jpg

Awesome! Thanks Mr. Toasty!

Funny too because I saw that when looking at the source but just assumed it was a gray background for the nav bar or some such. Embarassed

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MrToasty wrote:

iconsumer wrote:

MrToasty wrote:

Just check the page source, find this:
http://tagruato.jp/images/nav_backup.jpg

Awesome! Thanks Mr. Toasty!

Brownie

No problem. My guess is that it should show before the flash loads, but you most likely won't see it unless you clear your cache and your machine or internet connection is slow.

Euchre wrote:

This makes me wonder if you can trick the site into thinking you don't have Flash and it shows you different content?

MrToasty wrote:

There are also parameters sent to Flash objects in the page script like this:

Code:

var fo = new FlashObject('swf/nav.swf', 'navigation', '912', '300', '8');
fo.addParam('menu', 'false');
fo.addParam('wmode', 'transparent');
fo.write('header');

Not sure if changing a 'false' to 'true' will show us anything more. Too lazy to look too deep into the decompiled flash right now.

colbyrook wrote:

I'm really sensing another 'hanso foundation' caper where the crisis is gonna be blamed on the big, evil, greedy corporation or corporate boss (remember mittlework?)

colbyrook wrote:

here is what I got with disabled flash.... i'm gonna keep playing around with a saved version of the source code in a html document. You can do it to if you want, by copying the source code over to notepad, save it as a .html file, and then as "http://tagruato.jp/" before all the file location references in the code and save

btw setting that specific command to 'true' does nothing I can see

colbyrook wrote:

what I find interesting is the following line of HTML referring to the links at the bottom of the page:

<a>Privacy and Legal</a>   <a>Sitemap</a>   <a>Help</a>

the link targets are left blank [boldened bits].... I think this site is still being developed

mjames wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

I think this site is still being developed

The consistent thing I've found in the Source code for all the websites is that a base site is made, and when we find it, "they" begin working on it more heavily. Some of the sites (like the myspaces) were ready and are sites that a person would normally update anyway, but Slusho was sitting there with almost no links working when it was found, and this page is the same way in it's first form. Now that it's been found, it will be fleshed out. If there are other sites (like JJ said), that we haven't found yet, they won't be complete fully-functional sites, they will be bare bones until we find them. You can only have so many coders working at a time, and "they" aren't going to update them until we give them a reason to.

Logic states that by my theory "they" watch these forums... which was kinda proven when JJ told ARGamers that Ethan Haas had nothing to do with 11808, since that meant that he or his people had been cruising these sites for false info... "They"'re watching....

keeno_82uk wrote:

if they are indeed watching us seeing if we are hooking onto their bait like the promotional fishermen that they are, maybe we should all just play dumb and thus forcing them to provide us with more informaiton (joke).

As for the website, They are probably leaving gaps in the coding for if and when they decide to provide us with more obscure clues. Whos going to stakeout the website 24/7 to find out what the add ons are? not me thats for sure. I'm into solving the mystery, but i wouldn't lose sleep over it

lordnaff wrote:

There are 2 issues bothering me about this site at the moment. The first is the list of languages to choose from from the front page. There are 13 languages which I would assume would match up with the 13 drilling platforms that are supposedly currently functional. But why choose these languages? There's only 1 platform in the Mediterranean and yet there are 5 European languages represted here. And there a some fairly obscure languages here. Any ideas?

The other problem is that it is now October the 1st and yet supposedly the Mid-Atlantic platform (the one presumably that's going to feature in the flim) was supposed to open in September. Why is there no mention of it?

I'm wracking my brains and trawling tagruato.com but can't find anything.

wargasm wrote:

perhaps someone that is familiar with other languages should check the other pages for discrepencies.

also, does anyone else think that the full story of the slusho given to the nursing home sounds like a bunch of ditsy j-pop girls running around taunting old people because they cant get out of bed?

Quote:

"Dancing in front of those old folks showed them that just because they cannot leave their beds, the rest of us can, and the world is still a bright shiny place."

Red Walrus wrote:

I don't have a picture of the "whale" to the left on the opening page. Any ideas why not?

deletia wrote:

When you select a new location on the interactive drilling locations page, gibberish spews out as the information on the station appears at the bottom of the screen.

Someone else brought this up previously and it was dismissed, but now that we've seen that evil logo that shows up for only a split second, it occurs to me that we should probably investigate.

I would do it myself, but sadly I don't have the know-how

Edited to add: Now that there appears to be hidden content on the site (that is, the evil logo that flashes by so quickly), there is also the potential for a mole on the inside. How else did that logo get there? I wouldn't guess it was the director of marketing for Tagruato trying to be clever. If there is a mole, then this really may be turning into an ARG after all.

Red Walrus wrote:

deletia wrote:

Good idea about the mole.

MrToasty wrote:

mjames wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

I think this site is still being developed

If this site is meant to help drive the game forward, then there will definitely be updates. The lack of completeness in certain areas (financial statements, subsidiary sites) may be meant to control the pace of the game.

While I do find it likely that the PMs have their eyes on boards like this one, I think it just as likely if not moreso that they merely are looking at the Google Analytics statistics from the Urchin tracker on the site to see if the site has been discovered and has been seen by enough eyes to move to the next step. "Sept. 28 - 0 hits. Sept. 29 - 10,000 hits. OK, now we can worry about updates."

Oh, and Google has now finally crawled the page as of Sept. 30th.

One comment about the "mole" above. I highly agree that this site now opens up the possibility of a whistleblower, especially if this continues the similarities with the Lost Experience. However that image is hardly hidden, it just gets used if you don't have flash. Still odd though that it is a completely different and somewhat ominous logo.

Be@rbrick wrote:

Okay, two things. The first is, do you think this "evil logo" is simply a reference to Tagruato's old moto "holding Earth's energy in my fist"? Perhaps it was just the old logo? That can't explain why it was hidden, but thought I'd point that out.

The second thing is that if someone decompiled the flash on this site and was unable to find this alternate logo, wouldn't it still be possible that the flash on the Slusho site might actually have some hidden secrets as well?

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MrToasty wrote:

Be@rbrick wrote:

Not hidden at all, see my post on page 12. It's right in the source of the page's html and shows up if you don't have Flash installed. Again it is odd though.

Red Walrus wrote:

Here's one freaky monster if it was 1000 times bigger.

Valken wrote:

Hi, I'm Valken.

So what?

Secret Slusho ingredient turned a "little fish" into a "whale."
Out in the ocean there was a large untapped amount of the ingredient.
A sea creature was living around it so it growed really large.
So they drilled and woke it up?

Chuai "looked to the seas and saw nothing, so abandoned his faith."
If I don't see it, It's not there mentality?
No giant sea creature in sight, must not be there.

I'm just curious though. If this is the case, and the Slusho ingredient was what made the monster a monster in the first place. Which seems very possible. Then why only one monster? And if it's an energy drink, why was he sleeping?

Maby it's got to do with an ancient prehistoric beast sleeping in the ocean, and they get the ingredient and get greedy and dig deeper. Disturbing the slumbering beast. So he shifts but doesn't attack because he's not aggressive. Just old. In turn the oil rig breaks and spills all of the minded ingredient around the now unveiled beast. Filling him with energy and making him mad at being woken up. I mean. If you're woken up and you had all the energy in the world wouldn't you exact revenge on the people who woke you? As apposed to just slowly swatting them away like it did at first.

Oh and this just a thought i've had on my mind. If the world was once Pangea (one continent) and a meteor did hit it. And it did break apart. Then wouldn't Chuai be around the most likely spot a meteor hit. Concidering the size and positions of the continent. Perhaps something on the meteor? Perhaps the meteor was the origin of the ingredient? I don't know. Just a thought.

dontlookmyage wrote:

I guess I should go on vacation more often! I come back and the jackpot was hit! New picture, new website and a LOT of information! Anyway, here are my thoughts:

1) Regarding Dr. Awkward's call to the Tagruato Co. - it said that "there are NO UPDATES at this time" - should we perhaps call every so often to see WHEN there are updates posted?

2) The changing Tagruato logo - I use Firefox, and I could NOT for the life of me, see any change when I clicked on the logo, went to different places on the site, etc. Then, I switched the rendering engine from Friefox to I.E. Tab and BAM! There was the "hand of power" logo staring me in the face! It was somewhat startling at first, but there it was. I couldn't navigate through the site like in Firefox, but that may be because I need to upgrade my IE tab (though I may try with regulat IE just to see what's what).

3) I must agree about the writing of the day in the life of Dr. Takahashi - way too many exclamation points to seem professional to me. But hey, it's interesting reading - perhaps they'll find a cure for bladder infections as well....

Good find! Thank you so much! You guys rock and I love this forum! ARG or not, I'm definitely enjoying the ride, as this is my first one of whatever it is!! Very Happy

BTW - my youngest daughter's name is Keiko (really!). Not that she cares, but I'm going to tell her that her name is part of this whole thing (she thinks I'm the biggest nerd ever, but I don't care!). Geek

Heff wrote:

Hello, this my first post so please bear with me. I didn't see this posted, but I didn't read through all 14 pages of this thread.

In the history section the phrase "A New Sun Risen" stood out as odd to me so I threw it in the anagram solver and one thing that came out was "New Sin Near US". I just thought that was kind of interesting.

Keep up the great work!

eliwein wrote:

deletia wrote:

Can someone do this, please? Its a 50/50 chance that its important.

crazedstapler wrote:

i like the whole pangea idea, although some of the facts you had were wrong. pangea wasn't actually broken up by a meteor, it actually is believed that the reason pangea started to break apart was because of continental drift. we've all taken high school geology or earth science, so i would assume everyone knows what the continental drift theory is.

but, in keeping with the pangea idea, if you look at pangea and compare its position to the continents of today, you can see that the mid-atlantic rift/ridge is central in the breakup of pangea. thank you wikipedia.

so what if, instead of it being some kind of alien life form, its just a prehistoric creature that lies dormant in the deep recesses of the ocean, somewhat undisturbed until ganu starts pestering him with his damned digging devices.

i do know that the last part has been brought up a number of times, but it seems more logical now with the information of pangea and the location of the mid-atlantic ridge in relation to pangea.

dontlookmyage wrote:

One other thing - there are 14 drilling stations, which is double 7 (Slusho 7). Just a thought.....

tiny420 wrote:

Don't know if this has been discussed..But.

18 Palace Plaza
36-40-10 Marunouchi
Marunouchi, Tokyo 118-8336
Japan

TEL +81-3-5403-6318

Has anyone tried to see if this is a real location...Or, like if anyone is in Japan, tried to call this number. I think it would be better than trying to send an Email. Considering will we probably get the same email. But if this is a real location, who knows.

rjharris1960 wrote:

I posted this in another thread. Maybe the Cloverfield monster really is an alien. Perhaps many eons ago, a civilization from another galaxy banished this monster from their planet sending the creature off into space encased in a capsule filled with a liquid sedative and this capsule crash lands in the Atlantic Ocean. Cut to the present�.a company discovers flora in the deepest part of the ocean that secretes an edible, flavorful and intoxicating compound that has health benefits and no side effects. No one realizes that these plants are actually the result of from a leak in the alien creature's ancient capsule; and the sedative in the capsule mutates surrounding aquatic plant life to create the secret ingredient used in Slusho. The drilling rigs accidentally drill to deep and puncture the creatures capsule. The creature wakes up and follows a scent trail back to New York City, sees and oil tanker, and tosses it into Midtown Manhattan. Then it sees the Statue of Liberty and tears the head off the statue and launches it into Manhattan. Then it reaches the island , and all hell breaks loose.

Red Walrus wrote:

YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH
YMR is a genetic research firm specializing in deep sea bioprospecting. YMR implements Tagruato's advanced exploration technology to study extremophiles found only in the deepest parts of our oceans. The understanding of such organisms that thrive in conditions of extreme pressure, temperature, and toxicity has boundless pharmaceutical and industrial promise.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
I found a real life counterpart of YOSHIDA MEDICAL RESEARCH
Kinda interesting
http://www.funcrypta.de/www/en/

The strategy of FUNCRYPTA, therefore, is:

(i) to use a cultured tardigrade species, which will be used for all investigations as a model organism,
(ii) to link molecular, biochemical, and physiological data by bioinformatic techniques and modelling, and
(iii) to transfer the knowledge to the industrial sector

Also:
http://www.bio-pro.de/en/region/stern/magazin/02623/index.html

This could explain why the secret ingrediant has to be keep cold and also may be how a sleeping monster awakens:

Cryptobiosis
The way that tardigrades have adapted to environmental stress is to reversibly suspend their metabolism and to effectively isolate themselves from the changes. This state is known as cryptobiosis and is a truly death-like state. Cessation of metabolism in other organisms is called death. Metabolism in tardigrades can lower to less than 0.01% of normal, or be entirely undetectable and the water content of the body may decrease to less than 1%. Tardigrades have been revived from this state after more than 100 years and shown signs of life! However, experiments have only shown cryptobiosis under natural conditions of 12 years but frozen they could theoretically survive for ever! The change in environmental conditions determine which cryptobiotic method�anhydrobiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis, and anoxybiosis�will occur.

Most studies of cryptobiosis have been done on anhydrobiosis, the form of cryptobiosis initiated by desiccation. Tardigrades living in a limno-terrestrial habitat, such as moss or lichens, require that they can survive long periods of dryness. Anhydrobiosis involves an almost complete loss of body water and the animal can stay in this state for an long period of time. Tun formation is an essential part of the process, which can be done repeatedly throughout the life cycle, even by adults, resulting in a body that is constricted and folded up. The limbs invaginate, the body contracts and becomes folded.The tun formation is an active process requiring metabolism and synthesis of a protective sugar Trehelose. After the tun is formed further desiccation can take place in 0 % relative humidity and the tardigrade can still survive. Revival typically takes a few hours from natural habitats but depends upon how long the tardigrade has been in the anhydrobiotic condition.

Cryobiosis is cryptobiosis which is initiated by a reduction in temperature to below 0 �C and involves the ordered freezing of water within the body cells . Osmobiosis is a form of cryptobiosis initiated by a decreased water potential due to increased solute concentration in the surrounding solution.A reduction of the % of oxygen initiates a suspended state in tardigrades, but is mostly not considered a form of cryptobiosis�tardigrades in this state remain extended, turgid, and immobile but it can only last for days before they die

TaninimBait wrote:

Here's a screenshot of the gibberish as it rolls accross the screen. Just seems like nonsense to me. Just a cool effect, especially since it change rapidly at every space.

crazedstapler wrote:

I really like the water-bear theory. When I read the mission statement of yoshida medical, the first thing i did was look up extremophiles.

I never found the water-bear though. After reading 'the art of survival' and researching the water bear, it seems highly likely that it could be our monster.

Good find.

MrToasty wrote:

TaninimBait wrote:

Here's a screenshot of the gibberish as it rolls accross the screen. Just seems like nonsense to me. Just a cool effect, especially since it change rapidly at every space.

In the decompiled flash they fill the fields with randomly generated text, so no, there is nothing interesting in the flashing text aside from a cool effect.

dontlookmyage wrote:

..I can't get this out of my head - this new find it too "tasty" Wink

. Anyway, thinking about Slusho! quickly becoming the second most popular frozen drink in Asia, I, like others, was wondering what the first was. I Googled and found these websites about Bubble Tea (or Boba Tea).

http://www.bubbletea.com/

http://www.boba.com/

Something that caught my eye was at the bottom of the "What is Bubble Tea" page from the Bubbletea site:
[url]
http://www.bubbleteasupply.com/index.php?page=what.html[/url]

"One thing is for certain. Bubble Tea is not a fad. It's a trend. This drink is addictive. If you've had a good one before then you know what we're talking about."

Also on the boba.com site (a.k.a., "Boba World"), a few of the links don't work, all located under the "Info" menu.

These are real sites, from what I can tell, but I thought that was pretty interesting. I'm not even sure that Bubble Tea IS the most popular frozen drink in Asia right now - I don't even think it's always frozen - but that's what I found, FWIW. I've actually seen it offered in the Japanese restaurant near my house, but didn't try it (though now I may). I'd like to see if I can find a Japanese website featuring Bubble Tea, and see how it's set up.

Right now, though, I really need to get back to work.....

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:48 pm

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meph wrote:

Bubble Tea has been around for some time. There is a Filipino restaraunt up here in the Yukon Territory, ( whitehorse ) that serves bubble tea.
A lot of kids go and get it at lunch time. It is cold, not frozen, but has the gelatin like balls that float in it. Rather odd consistancy, but you can get it in several flavours, blueberry being my favourite.

A few years ago, there was a bottled soft-drink version of it in canada called "Orbz", or "Orbs".

No slusho brand at the restaraunt.... yet. Twisted Evil

tyclizzle wrote:

NOt sure if this is anything or not, but on the tagruato website, they mention the CEO's name As Ganu Yoshida (http://tagruato.jp/headlines.php?story=news_07_07_29)

Quote:

Tagruato CEO to be honored at Pacific Oil Conference
Tagruato CEO Ganu Yoshida will leave the Pacific Oil Conference this year with more than just a belly full of gourmet hors d'oeuvres. He will be honored with the Khodorkovsky Award for innovation. The award is a long time coming. Ganu's introduction of the Tagruato deep sea drilling techniques has revolutionized off-shore drilling, and has put his company on the brink of mega success.

Ganu will accept the award at a gala ceremony on the conference's final day. "I have to give a speech," commented Ganu. "They hope for me to tell my secrets. They will get none."

The POC takes place between September 17th and 20th in Reno, Nevada.

a quick google of that name returned ' http://ganuyoshida.blogspot.com/ '

Quote:

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

New Website!!! @.@
I have decided to keep a journal for my friends in the American United States.

I am doing well here in Honshu. The family company is running smoothly now, and I have relinquished much of the more technical aspects to more capable hands. However, I am still on the Board of Trustees as the "Creative Director", which sounds silly for a man who makes soft drinks. However, I will not relinquish my supervisory role in the corporation. Mother would have wanted it that way.

For those of my American friends who remember Mother, she was headstrong and moody at times, but she always knew exactly what she wanted and how to get it. That's what I admired about her, even if it is what overtook her in the end. Robert, if you are reading this, do you remember Mother's lycee pudding? I served you some at the last conference, where we met. You were just an intern at the time, and I was learning the ropes of the business. I loved that pudding.

But, enough reminiscing. The website for the company is up now, and Satoshi tells me it will be finished by November of this year. I never thought I would be making money off of Mother's little soda venture, let alone selling T-shirts! It is a strange and wonderful new day.

Yours,
G.Y.
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He mentions "Robert" and a pudding his mom made "lycee". I just thought it was wierd how this was posted 2 months prior to the tagruato website turning up. Could be a hoax, could be a repost, i dunno.

NYC5 wrote:

Yea this was mentioned in a post earlier...

snake1911 wrote:

Has anyone seen this before
http://ganuyoshida.blogspot.com/
I didn't see any other topics mentioning it so I figured I might as well post it?

Reference the post for replies stating its crap
Topic was called "Ganu Yoshida Blog"

wargasm wrote:

i dont think the garbage on the map page will turn into anything. i took a shot of it and got something completely different. being as it changes so fast and so much, i think its just random garbage.

MrToasty wrote:

wargasm wrote:

i dont think the garbage on the map page will turn into anything. i took a shot of it and got something completely different. being as it changes so fast and so much, i think its just random garbage.

Again, the decompiled flash shows that it is just randomly generated text. Nothing will be hidden there unless they create a new flash movie.

mw03 wrote:

and i just can't find it via the search, but someone has pointed out that the drilling station nearest NYC is the only one not yet opened, and is slated to open in September 07. pretty reasonable connection that the pictures are dated 3 months later...just about long enough for new drilling in the mid atlantic to wake up a super monster.

mw03 wrote:

of course, right after i mention this, i run into several posts noting the September 07 correlation. sorry.

bluejk wrote:

http://whois.domaintools.com/tagruato.jp

Colori wrote:

Hah. I just thought it was funny, you guys just now mentioning the bubble tea. that was actually the first thing I thought of when i saw the DSI dropping into the cup for the slusho, cause I love bubble tea. xD

I dismissed it as silly, though.

dontlookmyage wrote:

Bubble tea might be nice, I still may try it, but I remember Orbz - they had it here for a short while, thank GOD. The nastiest stuff I ever had the displeasure of drinking.

I know the Bubble tea has been around for a while, but the websites could have been an inspiration for the Slusho site.

Nighthawk wrote:

FYI...

Mid-Atlantic Ridge:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579350/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge.html

Of all the trenches, it's apparently the only one that's explicitly defined as volcanic.

e2c wrote:

hey again,
i gotta say i love these forums. just fun to see how every1 is into this soo much. (i kno sort of sad but its fun eh? Laughing

)

for the person asking bout the address in Tokyo:
go back a few pages in this topic and read what I quoted from another site. there is a guy from japan who said the address is invalid and probably fictional.

also thanks again for that brilliant discovery of the one hand holding the earth. that was hell a cool. i hope there is more on that page we can explore.

keep it up
pat

P.S.:

anyone tried emailing the registrant of the website yet, Daiske Kagashima?
his email is: sk7087SPLATgmail.com

(http://whois.domaintools.com/tagruato.jp)

thanks to the guy posting that link

Ecks51 wrote:

dontlookmyage wrote:

Bubble tea might be nice, I still may try it, but I remember Orbz - they had it here for a short while, thank [--]. The nastiest stuff I ever had the displeasure of drinking.

LMAO It's wasn't like a death sentance. I didn't mind Orbitz that much, and actually had an unopened bottle on top of my fridge for years as a "salute to corn" (the little yellow Orbz reminded me of corn kernels). Come to think of it, I may still have it. Laughing

[EDIT] to get URL correct

McPhearson wrote:

mjames wrote:

colbyrook wrote:

I think this site is still being developed

Okay. It's funny that you mention that whole find-it, then they flesh it out thing. Has anyone read on the front page of Tagruato.jp, where it says this:

"Tagruato's crew of Slusho! Smilers! arrived at the Ibaraki Nursing Home in Mito yesterday with a special surprise for the feeble elders on Floor 3 - Slusho! brand happy drink! The lovely ladies handed out seven drinks to each senior in any flavor they could imagine."

Well, I went to smilers.jp, and it is nothing but a domain name. Is this one of the bare-bone sites you were talking about? Or does that mean the site has been unpurchased?

e2c wrote:

I doubt that, server is located in japan, different registrant....created in 2005

http://whois.domaintools.com/smilers.jp

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:54 pm

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jawbone wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

If all these links worked when you posted this, my guess is they're working on the site now because the last 2 images give an error.

MonTag wrote:

力の手. <<< what does that word mean?

McPhearson wrote:

Ah, good point. No harm in asking, though. Wink

jon-561 wrote:

MonTag wrote:

力の手. <<< what does that word mean?

The Hand of Power

McPhearson wrote:

MonTag wrote:

力の手. <<< what does that word mean?

Ah, Jon beat me to it.

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

jawbone wrote:

OurPaleCompanion wrote:

If all these links worked when you posted this, my guess is they're working on the site now because the last 2 images give an error.

Red Walrus wrote:

jawbone wrote:

Found a couple more pics.
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo.jpg on the page http://tagruato.jp/profile.php
then
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_1.jpg
http://tagruato.jp/images/ganu_ceo_2.jpg

Good one jawbone.
The site is quite sloppy with their unused site pictures.
One thing I never noticed before is the Tagruato Logo on the floor...very cool detail.

Yeah, seems that they're pruning the site of unused and unimportant pictures, as the alternate ganu_ceo pictures are gone as well. The alternate drilling images remain, though - so it's definitely relevant. Looks like we can expect updates soon.

McPhearson wrote:

Not only was this site a lucky find found via a certain someone's hardwork, but it also has many pages that, once developed, could answer alot.

But as far as updates go, I'm wondering when the heck we're going to find out the title to this film? Heck, I'll be fine if we don't get to see the monster until the movie. Fine, keep that suspense going. But at LEAST tell us what to call the darn thing. How long is JJ Abrams going to drag this out?

W-Three wrote:

Well, I dunno about the whole naming thing. I mean, we've all come to know it as 01-18-08, Cloverfield, slusho etc. how many people would call it by its 'true' name. For me, this movie already has a name: 01-18-08.

Red Walrus wrote:

If they are taking out the unused pages it may be explained by someone in power watching these forums.

reagan88 wrote:

am entering this thread late and have not read all posts so forgive me if I am redundant. But I ordered a t-shirt and a hat from slusho and they arrived at my home today. The package was sent via priority mail from South Carolina. When I opened it I found that two pieces of newspaper had been stuffed in the box on either side of my merchandise. The newspaper pages are printed in japanese. There are a few things printed in english. One, and I am not at home right now so I can't remember the name exactly, was that name of a marine management company. When I googled it A link to the company website popped up. I clicked on it and it looks remarkably like the Tagruato Corp. website. I think this sit is a real site however, and not part of the viral campaign. But the site may have been used as a template for Tagruato. When I get home later I will post the name of the company for ya'll.

McPhearson wrote:

It's funny you mention that, W. Some people think that that SHOULD be the name of the film. They say it has an ominous feel to it.

But I have two concerns:
(1) So many people are waiting for the REAL name, that if they say "Oh, it's 1-18-08. Thats the real title", people will getting real ticked off. All the suspense for no pay-off, they might say.
(2) What if they make a sequel? "1-18-08 2" would sound really stupid.

But yes, I agree. That would be a good title.

reagan88 wrote:

I remembered it... Tokio Marine Management, Inc.

The url is... http://www.tokiomarine.us/

e2c wrote:

McPhearson wrote:

(2) What if they make a sequel? "1-18-08 2" would sound really stupid.

But yes, I agree. That would be a good title.

1-19-08 or 1-18-09 duh? Very Happy

McPhearson wrote:

e2c wrote:

McPhearson wrote:

(2) What if they make a sequel? "1-18-08 2" would sound really stupid.

But yes, I agree. That would be a good title.

1-19-08 or 1-18-09 duh? Very Happy

1-19-08 would be kind of funny. One day after Hell breaks loose, it breaks loose AGAIN. If the sequel's going to be released a DAY after the original, they better get to work on it. Wink

colbyrook wrote:

tiny420 wrote:

I think it would be better than trying to send an Email. Considering will we probably get the same email. But if this is a real location, who knows.

check my post on page 10 buddy... still waiting for a reply

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