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1. This RP is rated M; this means that it's only for age 16 and over, due to its theme.
2. Obey the main forum rules.
3. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus. Or I will hit you.
4. Absolutely NO TWILIGHT VAMPIRES. I mean it; anyone who tries to sign up with a Meyerpire will be kicked from the RP. The vampires in this RP resemble Night World Vampires; for more information click here: Night World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Everything in the basic description fits; however, these vampires if made can change humans; and if born, they don't age past twenty. Any questions, just PM me.
5. Please don't all sign up as vampires; there needs to be human characters too. If you like, you can sign up one vampire and one human. If there are too many of one group, you may be told to revise your character. Regarding werewolves; please PM me if you wish to sign up as a werewolf as there are only a few of them and I do not want loads of werewolf characters.
Up on a hilltop in the midst of a lonely town, is an old mansion that has stood for as long as the townspeople can remember. No-one knows when it was built, or even who built it; it is just something that has always been there, now and forever. Most of the people in the town ignore the mansion and its occupants save when they emerge and come down to the town; they are mostly ignorant of the evil in their midst. However, there are a core few who know of the secret that lies within the mansion, of the family of vampires that live there and who prey not only on the townspeople, but also among the neighbouring districts. Not all are related by blood; some are only part of the family cuz they have lived there for centuries so were accepted into the clan. They are careful tho; they only kill when necessary and the attacks remain a mystery among most humans. The few who know the secret of the vampire clan know different tho; they want nothing more than the destruction finally of the vampire clan.
However, it will not be easy to destroy them. As well as those who are members of the same family, who reside within the mansion walls, there are a few hangers on who live alongside them. Some are fledgelings; vampires made by the clan as friends or lovers. Others simply latched on to the mansion as a reaction to constant wandering. The clan is growing decade by decade and now believes itself unstoppable. Not least cuz there are still many preconceptions that exist about vampires, even in the modern world. For example, that the sun can destroy them, or that they can be killed by garlic. Neither are true; however, wood is poison to vampires; the legend about the stake thru the heart is the only one that still rings true. The few humans who know of the vampire clan need to discover this knowledge before it's too late, and what they are hunting turns on them.
Among the clan too, there is danger. Some of the vampire family resent the newcomers; the made vampires who reside alongside them. Others will protect their fledgelings, even against their own family members. Some have guilty secrets which must be protected against; the love for a human, for example, or even for a werewolf. For there was at one point a werewolf pack living alongside the vampire clan; however, nearly all of the 'wolves were exterminated. Of that original pack, none survive; however, there are a few descendants still living in and around the town. Perhaps they yearn for revenge; after all, grudges can survive centuries. The werewolves plot to build up their pack once more, either the normal way, or from biting humans and compelling them to join. There has been an ageold war between the vampires and werewolves for centuries, with no end in sight.
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Name: Perdita
Age: Actual age, 400. Appears 19
Appearence: Long blonde hair, silvery blue eyes, average height
Short Bio: Perdita is neither the eldest or youngest daughter in the clan. She tries to prey on humans who are wicked; ie, rapists, murderers, pickpockets. She falls in love with Flynn for who he is, however at all times there hangs over her the fear for when the clan finds out, which they surely must do eventually. No secrets can be kept in the clan. Perdita has a tendency to be impulsive; she can also be alarmingly selfish, persuing her own agenda. She is also vain as well too fond of luxury. She would never entertain the idea of leaving her home to be with Flynn as she loves living in rich surroundings.
Name: Flynn
Age: 16
Appearence: Dark blonde hair, blue eyes. Average height and build
Short Bio: Flynn grew up in a children's home. He ran away from it at the age of twelve cuz the new superintendant was a pedophile. He now survives mostly on the streets of the town, stealing to stay alive. He ran into Perdita while she was hunting; somehow, they ended up as lovers rather than as predator and prey. Flynn was brave enough to put aside the danger and remain with Perdita against the odds. However, he never considers the future and can be immature at times.
At the dead of night, a figure stole out from the old mansion at the top of the hill. The figure was wrapped in a cloak, with a scarf obscuring her face. Any watcher from the mansion would have been completely in ignorance of who this was.
Perdita crept quietly on light feet thru the gardens at the front of the mansion. She carried no light, but that didn't matter; her vampire eyes could see in darkness that a human would have found impossible without a torch. She looked behind her fearfully, altho there was no pursuit. Maybe it just was cuz of the enormity of what she was doing; going to meet her lover was one thing, but it was who her lover was that her clan would never forgive if they ever found out about him.
Perdita left the mansion grounds and melted into the moonless night.
A boy waited in the town centre, leaning against an old statue that, as long as he could remember, had always been there. The writing on the statue's plinth that stated who this man was was worn away with time, and now no-one knew. No-one human, that is; but Flynn was sure the vampires on the hill knew. Not that he'd ever get the chance to ask them; the only one he cared about was Perdita, and on the times they met up, talking was the last thing on their mind.
Flynn was torn in two over Perdita; on one hand, he loved her a lot; on the other hand, there was always the danger of the clan finding out and killing him. Flynn loved the thrill; he didn't even consider the danger. He looked up as she walked towards him, removing her scarf as she did so. And then there were no words, and no more thinking as they met in a strong embrace, kissing with passion and not caring if anyone witnessed it.
Name: Kathryn or Kat
Age: 17
Appearance: Long black hair, blue eyes, average height but bustier.
Short Bio: Kathryn lives with her older sister Reagan (21) in their three bedroom two bathroom apartment in the center of town. She moved in with Reagan when their parents died three years ago. Kathryn really doesnt have too many friends as she likes to keep to herself. She is very logical and analytical, but can also be emotional. She volunteers at a local animal sanctuary every weekend, as she has always had better luck understanding animals than people. Shes not really shy, she just doesnt like to speak to brick walls.
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Name: Evelyn
Age: 15
Appearance: Short ginger hair, green eyes, shorter height and skinny.
Short bio: Evelyn lives with her father, as her mother left them when she was 5 months old. She loves to be the center of attention and always loves having people around. She is impulsive and adventurous, which usually lands her in trouble. She is also very insecure and unforgiving. She has the memory of an elephant.
Kathryn was up late again. She had spent a longer time at the shelter to help a new set of kittens settle in and was just getting home. Her sister was already in bed and asleep but had some dinner waiting in the fridge. Kat quickly warmed the food and, knowing that she had to get up early the next morning, quickly ate. She then grabbed her book and curled up in the hanging hammock chair in the corner of the living room.
Kat. Kat, honey. Her sisters voice rang. Kat groaned. What time is it? About 3:15 in the morning. Im getting ready for work. Kat groaned again. K Kat groggily slipped out of the chair and into her bedroom.
Evelyn and her friends were walking through the center of town, drunk off their @ss. Being loud and obnoxious, they started singing Rebecca Blacks song Friday at the top of their lungs. Laughing half way through and stumbling into walls and benches and anything that happened to be in their path.
Evie, Evie! Look! Its a young couple making out! We should go talk to them! Her friend Ally yelled.
Awwww! They are so cute! Hi couple thats making out over there! Evelyn screamed.
I am so sorry. Please just ignore them. Their guy friend Travis apologizes. If you two dont get your butts moving
Youre going to do what. Evelyn pouted. Call our parents. Were not children Travey. She turned back to the couple. You two are sooooo cute!
"Then why do you act like one sometimes." Travis muttered.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Name: Kiki Malth
Age: 19
Appearance: Very tall, long dyed-brown hair and a pair of mismatched brown and blue eyes. Somewhat malnourished and uncomfortably skinny.
Short Bio: Kiki was pulled with her sister into a world of fast cards, drugs, and willing bodies. She came out physically worse for wear, as the life isn't exactly conducive to a healthy lifestyle, but mentally speaking she is more sound than her twin. She found the town and dragged her sister here, and has a quiet job at a coffee shop while Capri goes through withdrawal.
Name: Capri Malth
Age: 19
Appearance: Shoulder-length white-blond hair, identical mismatched eyes to her sister's. Once the spitting image of health despite their lifestyle, she now looks only somewhat better than Kiki and looks like death more days than not.
Short Bio: A budding prodigy in car engineering, Capri met and fell head over heels for Jan Aras, a drag racer a few years her senior. The twins were soon pulled into the world of underground racing and Capri reveled in it - she loved the cards, she loved Jan, and more than that, the drugs and the wild action distracted her from her growing mental disability. Without her old distractions, Capri spends much time at home, sitting on the couch staring at the TV in her pajamas.
"You want me to bring you back something to drink? I know you like the iced coffees we make." Kiki finished helping Capri pull her hair into pigtails, used to the silence. Capri hadn't quite forgiven her, not yet. "Does chicken sound good for dinner tonight?" she continued, sighing.
"Garlic chicken. Please." Capri glared at her reflection and clenched her fists in her lap, wanting nothing more than to shatter the glass and get rid of that smiling, smug face looking back at her. Kiki made a noise to distract her and finished curling the pigtails around the curling iron.
"There you go, now you're ready for the day." She checked the time and sighed. She loved the peace her new job offered, but she rather loathed having to go in so early. At least it was only downstairs. "I'll be down in the shop if you need me."
"I'll just watch TV. Like always." She fiddled with the fraying edges of her cutoff shorts. Kiki watched her for a moment before sighing and heading out of the tiny apartment they shared.
Once downstairs, she unlocked the coffee shop door and stepped inside. The owner had already been in and she could already smell coffee going. She groaned a bit; it was going to be one of those days. She flicked on the lights and slipped behind the counter after grabbing her apron, tidying up the mess that the closing shift had left behind.
I stare at the girl in the mirror: T-shirt, torn up jeans, no beauty queen.
But the way that you see me, you get underneath me, and all my defenses just fall away, fall away.
I am beautiful with you, even in the darkest part of me. I am beautiful with you;
Make it feel the way it's supposed to be!
Perdita glared in annoyance at the humans shouting at them. Flynn gave her a warning nudge.
"Better not say anything," he whispered. "They'll probably leave us alone if we ignore them."
"Suppose so," Perdita replied. "Let's go someplace else, tho."
Perdita wanted very much to turn Flynn, so that he'd be safe, but he wasn't so sure and she wouldn't change him against his will. She just wished she knew the best thing to do.
Ally squealed at the sight of Flynn and started to walk towards him. "You are soooo sexy!" She giggled, playing with her hair.
Evelyn laughed, egging Ally on. "Oh my my my my! He is a hottie."
Travis hung his head. "Why? Just why?" He sighed. "Can you guys please just let me walk you home in peace for once?" He asked, clearly at his wits end. He grabbed Evelyn's shoulder and pushed her into a nearby bench. "Stay." He ordered. "Just stay still for one moment while I get Ally so I can take you both home."
Ally had been following Perdita and Flynn as they walked away, clearly hitting on Flynn. "Do you work out cause you look like you work out." She batted her eye lashes.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Flynn turned to Ally. "None of your business, seeing as I'm with my girlf right now."
Perdita very much wanted to attack the girls, but it was out of the question in such an open space. There would be witnesses, and they couldn't all be eradicated. She didn't want to attract attention of vampire hunters.
Travis walked over to Ally and grabbed her hand, pulling her back to where Evelyn was sitting. "Sit. Stay." He barked at the two of them.
He walked back over to Flynn and Perdita. "I am terribly sorry that they have annoyed you. And sorry for Ally; she gets a little...uh..." He scratched the back of his neck. "You know. You saw. But I am going to take these two home. Again I am so sorry for them."
"Travis, we're leaving now." Evelyn called back as Ally started singing obnxiously.
He sighed and hung his head.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
Perdita simply shrugged and walked away with Flynn.
Flynn said to Travis, "Might not be a good idea for them to shout randomly at strangers. The next person might be worse tempered than we are."
Travis nodded. "Talkin to the choir. I have told them that ever since they started drinking and partying. But your looking at the sheriff's daughter, Evelyn, and Judge Kivah's daughter, Allision. They have always been treated above the law so they think no one can touch them. They have been in a couple brawls but usually they other people pay the price for their stupidity cause their dads think that their "precious little angels" can do no wrong." Travis shook his head. "but hey, have fun with your girl and thanks for not killing them." He waved bye to Perdita.
Being single doesn't make you weak, it means that you are strong enough to be on your own; Being alone could be a good thing, because there is no drama involved in your life, no pain, and free to do what ever you want. Life is too short to be chasing those who aren't even worth fighting for, you are worth more than that.
"Maybe one day they'll learn, but don't hold your breath," Flynn replied, walking off with Perdita. They decided to go to a nearby cafe.
Watching the scene was a skinny girl with scruffy brown hair and tawny eyes. Her clothes were old and had been mended in parts. She had noticed the vampire, and her eyes narrowed. Lupe, like the others in the tiny werewolf pack in the town, hated vampires. They had once been a large, thriving pack but the war between the vampires had decimated it. Now, the 'wolves lived scattered about the town, tho at last after many years they were beginning to gather together, as a pack should.
Lupe eyed the humans, now beginning to move away. She, like the other 'wolves, was thin and poor without much money. Humans normally had a lot, so perhaps she might be able to beg some off them. She followed the girls and one boy, moving closer.
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The U.S. and its allies on the U.N. Security Council said Monday that they will renew a push for an international resolution to disarm Syria that contains the threat of penalties—if not military force—for a failure by Damascus to comply.
Secretary of State John Kerry agreed in talks with Russia that the resolution wouldn't threaten military force. But U.S. and Western officials said Monday they wanted to ensure the resolution was as strict as possible.
A key dispute is whether the resolution should come under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which in some instances permits the use of military action for enforcement.
"The Syrian regime has no choice but to commit to eliminating these chemical weapons," said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who met Monday with Mr. Kerry in Paris. "All of the options remain on the table."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed European calls for a tougher U.N. resolution on Syria as "distorted reality."
The disarmament deal, struck in talks between U.S. and Russian officials over the weekend, will be tested this week, when Syria faces a Friday deadline for a full disclosure of its arsenal to The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which administers a global ban on such arms and will help dismantle Syria's program.
U.N. inspectors spent several days outside Damascus gathering evidence for their report on last month's attack, gathering blood samples, rocket fragments and other evidence. Mr. Ban said 85% of the blood samples tested positive for sarin, as did the majority of rocket fragments.
The investigators examined rocket fragments in detail, and the report shows some with markings in Cyrillic lettering.
Mr. Churkin said he didn't know what the significance of the Cyrillic markings were. "We need to have experts look into it," he said.
However the markings led some Western officials to conclude the arms originated in Russia, which is Syria's largest arms supplier. "Just look at them," said one U.S. official. "There is Cyrillic on the munitions."
The group Human Rights Watch, in an earlier investigation into last month's attack, concluded that the markings indicated the munition was a Soviet-era M-14 rocket.
The U.N.'s findings correspond to conclusions reached by Human Rights Watch, which issued its own report last week based on an investigation of video and photographic evidence.
"The U.N. report is adding more evidence to support the conclusion of our own investigation, which was pointing to government responsibility for the chemical attack," said Philippe Bolopion, U.N. director for Human Rights Watch.
The report identifies a second, larger rocket that a former Pentagon intelligence analyst said was based on an Iranian blueprint, but possibly made in Syria.
The launchers used to shoot those rockets are held only by the Syrian military, the former intelligence analyst said.
Mark Lyall Grant, the British ambassador, added that the trajectories of the rockets and types of munitions leave "no doubt that it was the regime that used chemical weapons."
The report says an East/Southeast trajectory could be determined on two of the five impact sites studied. The report doesn't name the geographic location of where the sarin-filled rockets were fired from.
Mr. Grant said Ake Sellstrom, the head of the U.N. inspectors, told a closed-door United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday that the sarin used was "35 times the amount" used in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack and was higher quality than that used by Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.
The report itself makes no mention of the sarin's quality. Nor does it say how many people died. The U.S. has said more than 1,400 were killed.
In a related action Monday, Mr. Obama signed an order to allow the U.S. to help protect Syrians against chemical-weapons attacks, including protective gear and training.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday's U.N. report supports the conclusion already reached by the U.S.—that the Assad regime is responsible for the Aug. 21 attack.
"It reinforces what we already believe," Mr. Carney said.
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University of Colorado Boulder researchers will be watching closely when South African bilateral leg amputee and sprinter Oscar Pistorius, dubbed "The Blade Runner," makes his way to the starting block for the 400-meter sprint in the 2012 London Olympics.
That's because studies by Professors Rodger Kram and Alena Grabowski of the integrative physiology department helped lead the way for Pistorius to compete in the Olympics.
CU research helped propel amputee-sprinter Oscar Pistorius to Olympics
July 27, 2012 Alena Grabowski
University of Colorado Boulder researchers will be watching closely when South African bilateral leg amputee and sprinter Oscar Pistorius, dubbed "The Blade Runner," makes his way to the starting block for the 400-meter sprint in the 2012 London Olympics.
That's because studies by Professors Rodger Kram and Alena Grabowski of the integrative physiology department helped lead the way for Pistorius to compete in the Olympics.
In 2007, the International Association of Athletics Federations barred Pistorius from international competition. The decision was based on a German study that concluded the blade-like Cheetah Flex-Foot leg prostheses gave Pistorius an advantage over other runners. But Grabowski says their research disproves that notion.
CUT 1 "We took a look at the scientific evidence that was presented to the IWAF and it didn't seem correct. The biggest issue we had was in the way they measure metabolic rate. (:11) You need to measure oxygen consumption at steady state metabolic rate – steady state running speeds that are sub- maximum." (:18)
To do this Grabowski says they measured the mechanical and physiological data of Pistorius as he ran.
CUT 2 "You can study how a person moves by studying the force they exert on the ground for instance. So we've got a special treadmill that senses the force in 3 dimensions. (:10) So that is the biomechanics side, the metabolic side is that you put a mask on someone and you measure how much oxygen they consume as they move." (:18)
By measuring metabolic rate Grabowski says they can tell if Pistorius has an advantage. If he is consuming less oxygen yet running at an elite level then chances are the prostheses is giving him a mechanical advantage since he doesn't have to work as hard to run at the same speed as other runners. But that wasn't the case, says Grabowski.
CUT 3 "So he was equivalent to other elite athletes. These prosthesis, some people claim that they give them an advantage. So if he has a mechanical advantage with his prosthesis, it should show up in something like the metabolic rate being exceptionally good. So then it's easier for him to achieve the given speed. (:19)
In 2008, a team that included Kram and Grabowski presented data to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland that showed Pistorius gained no physiological advantage from the prostheses over competitors. The team's evidence and testimony played a key role in overturning the decision, allowing Pistorius to compete in able-bodied events.
Pistorius failed to make the 2008 Olympic team, but this year he was selected by South Africa's Olympic Committee to run in both the individual 400 meters and a leg of the 4x400 meter relay. Grabowski says she's anxious to see how Pistorius performs.
CUT 4 "I am very excited to see that. He's got such a drive and he's so passionate about what he's doing, sprinting. I hope that he can make it to the semifinals, but I'm not sure how he's going to do. I mean he hasn't put down the best ever times but yea we will see how he does. I think he is going to be pretty remarkable to watch." (:21)
Kram and Grabowski have also studied the biomechanics of people with one amputated leg over a wide range of running speeds. They found the force produced by the prosthetic, carbon fiber leg, was 9 percent less than that of the unaffected leg. Applying force to the ground is crucial in sprinting events, says Grabowski.
CUT 5 "If you can compare the two legs you can see the force discrepancy, too. So a biological leg can generate much more force than the leg using the prosthesis." (:08)
Grabowski is beginning a research effort to further develop battery-powered ankle-foot prostheses for walking and running. Such prostheses have the potential to restore mobility to users similar to the mobility they had prior to amputation,
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I just started rereading Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet . I first read the four books in this series at the time that PBS was airing its miniseries, The Jewel in the Crown (first book in the series).These books taught me all I knew at the time of British imperialism in India and I remember that I loved the prose. Now, all these years later, with many more years of Middle Eastern events having occurred and, hopefully, with my own increased awareness and perhaps some wisdom, I realized it's just the right time to revisit the series.
I've only read 'The Jewel in the Crown,' which I admired greatly and learned a lot from. (At the time, I had taken so strongly to the character of Daphne and what happened to Hari and her so upset me that I didn't want to pick up the next book. Very sentimental of me. I should try again.)


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6 Movie Remakes that Missed the Point
#3. The Stepford Wives
What the Original Was About:
This 1975 film is based on a novel from 1972, a horror story with heavy elements of satire. The main character is Joanna Eberhart, who moves to the small town of Stepford with her husband and children. Joanna is unimpressed by the other women of the town, who appear to be interested only in cooking and cleaning.
Joanna becomes friends with the only other woman who isn't acting odd, and they decide to investigate the strange behavior of everyone else. After learning that most of the other women were once supporters of the feminist movement, the pair become disturbed enough to want to leave town. That plan quickly falls apart when Joanna's children are kidnapped and her new friend begins acting strangely.
Joanna does the logical thing: She stabs her friend. This is how she learns that her friend is now a robot. Instead of getting the fuck out of there like a normal person, Joanna elects to sneak into the mansion used by Stepford's Men's Association. Her plan goes about as well as you'd expect one with absolutely no preparation to go; the final shot of the film shows Joanna placidly buying groceries with the other robot wives.
With the exception of the final scene, the film is set entirely during the daytime, with bright and sunny settings used to offset the quietly chilling story. The behavior of the robot wives is a satirical display of traditional gender roles, although it's unclear if the film's final message is "running a male dominated, chauvinistic dystopia is bad" or "we need to hurry up and make some robots!"
"Damnit robot, the kitchen is inside. Inside! There are still some bugs to work out."
What the Remake Did Instead:
The plot of the 2004 remake remains essentially the same up until the point where Joanna is captured and becomes a robot, at which point the story quickly falls apart. The Men's Association hosts a ball to celebrate the assimilation of all the women in town, during which Joanna lures the leader of the organization away while her husband, Walter, sneaks into the room where the transformations occur.
There he discovers that all the women in town are being controlled by microchips implanted in their brains, and after he destroys the computers controlling them, they immediately revert to their old personalities. In an ironic ending, the newly freed women force their husbands to do all the mundane tasks they had been performing. Ironic in the sense that this movie completely discarded the suspense and satire of the original and replaced it with half-assed comedy. Wait, did we say ironic? We meant retarded.
Take this, feminism!
The new ending brings up endless plot holes as well. Apparently having a microchip in your brain makes you immune to fire, causes you to give off electric sparks and grants you the ability to dispense money from your mouth (each of which happens in the film). Yet, despite their mighty power, Joanna can apparently resist them completely. Either that, or when she was captured for sneaking around, the men of Stepford decided to do... absolutely nothing to her.
"Could you just pretend to be a cyborg, please? It would save me a ton of time."
How Did They Do?
The original received generally positive reviews and has grown in popularity over the years. The remake bombed and has largely been forgotten, although there's a pretty good chance everyone involved with it was killed and turned into a robot.
#2. The Wicker Man
What the Original Was About:
This 1973 thriller sees a Scottish police officer, named Neil Howie, investigating an isolated island in search of a missing girl. Discovering that the island is populated entirely by pagans who worship the sun and practice fertility rituals, our hero is shocked, as he is a devout Christian. The pagan aspects are presented with painstaking realism, as the issue of conflict between the two religious beliefs forms one of the central themes of the film.
Another central theme? Wicker.
The investigation goes poorly, as the islanders are unwilling to cooperate. Leaving Howie to explore on his own, things quickly go downhill and he eventually ends up as a virgin sacrifice (due to his claiming to be a virgin by choice, but we think he was just embarrassed).
Howie is burned alive in the titular wicker man, while the islanders sing a merry pagan tune, hoping his death will restore the fertility of their orchards. The chilling final scene sends a powerful message about what people are capable of doing in the name of their beliefs. Also, there's a ton of gratuitous nudity, which Cracked writers fervently believe in.
What the Remake Did Instead:
The 2006 remake starring Nicholas Cage is infamous, and for good reason. The idea of religious conflict is downplayed, and replaced with... no conflict at all. The most interesting ideas in the original came from Howie's strong religious convictions clashing with the islanders, while Cage's character is given little motivation to go to the island and even less to stay.
The issue of infertile orchards is gone too, replaced with infertile bees, a pointless change leading to some of the film's strangest and most comical scenes. The competent acting is replaced with Cage running around aimlessly, shouting for no reason and punching the shit out of a bunch of women, sometimes while in a bear suit. Dramatic music plays all the while, further confusing and embarrassing anyone unfortunate enough to be watching the film.
Pictured: 90 percent of the film's content.
The remake's worst sin? Absolutely no gratuitous nudity. That's right, this movie is both terrible and impossible to masturbate to.
How Did They Do?
The original is now commonly regarded as one of the finest films the British Isles have ever produced. The remake was critically panned, lost $3 million and nearly ruined Cage's career. So, all in all, it's a tie.
#1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
What the Original Was About:
Debuting way back in 1951, the film is about an alien, named Klaatu, and his big clunky robot, Gort, who land their spaceship in the middle of Washington D.C. with the intention of delivering an important message to the world. Humanity gets off on the wrong foot by shooting him, and eventually Klaatu ends up on the run from the U.S. military while he tries to find a way to communicating with the planet.
Klaatu is portrayed as an affable and friendly alien, while the majority of humans we see in the film are paranoid and suspicious of his intentions. It is, of course, an allegory for the Cold War, where people's hostilities are overriding both their common sense and their common humanity. Klaatu is less than impressed by how he's being treated, but he still tries to see the best in Earth. Even when he demonstrates how powerful he is, he does it without killing anyone, and it's only after the poor guy eventually gets gunned down does his robot buddy get angry.
The climax of the film sees Klaatu finally getting a chance to deliver his message (after coming back to life), where he tells humanity that if they take their warlike and aggressive nature into space, killer robots will fuck them up. We paraphrased that a bit, but that's basically what he's saying.
What the Remake Did Instead:
The anti-nuclear weapon theme was replaced with an environmental warning, which makes sense since the Cold War is over (OR IS IT?!).
The problem with this version is in how Klaatu is portrayed, besides the fact that Keanu Reeves was chosen to play him. Instead of being a likable spaceman, he's just as hostile and suspicious of humanity as they are of him. Instead of continually trying to deliver his warning, he gives up after the first attempt and just decides to wipe humans off the Earth instead. Yeah, we know you got shot and all, but come on, that's a little bit of an overreaction.
"Can't hear you, off to destroy all humans."
So with Klaatu on the warpath, it's up to the generic female lead, her spunky kid and John Cleese to convince Klaatu that humanity is worth saving. Of course, that only happens after Gort does a ton of damage and kills a lot of people. Sure, there's an environmental message slapped in there somewhere, but it's still the optimistic and hopeful humans stopping the hostile and violent alien. It's like they tried to put all of the pieces of the original film in here, but they got all scrambled up somehow.
Though, in the remake's defense...
How Did They Do?
The remake has been financially successful, but was critically panned. The original is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, and helped to prevent nuclear war (probably). Although to be fair, Keanu Reeves did accomplish that with Bill and Ted.
For movies that started out shitty but got better, check out 7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies. Or find out about some remakes that actually were better than the originals, in 9 Foreign Rip-Offs Cooler Than The Hollywood Originals.
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I'm making plans for Thanksgiving dinner and wondered...what are your favorite side dishes?
I'm planning on mashed potatoes w/gravy, whole kernel corn and dressing as standards. Let's hear some fresh new ideas.
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Some type of casserole. They're easy, which is a plus for the Thanksgiving day chef. There are many, many recipes out there, but here's one that sounds good to me.
Green Been casserole. Fried onions on top
Cheesy carrots, pickled beets, green been casserole, and others. One thing I have never really been a fan of are sweet potatoes.
Traditional - green bean casserole, mashed potatoes (real ones and not with sour cream), stuffing, glazed carrots, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole.
+1 for green bean casserole
One of my favorites is the 3+ layer Jello...mmmmm with the white cream cheese layer with pineapple mixed ahhhhhhh - This is similar to what I'm talking about -
Also, gotta have a side dish of delicious roles...yorkshire pudding adds a hearty large biscuit to the table that goes perfect with turkey and golden buttery mashed potatoes
I would then also suggest sweet potatoes (so long as you have marshmallows, brown sugar, pecans* optional)
Cheesy potatoes are a hit too, especially with kids that do not want the mashed potato option...but again this is just an extra dish if there are a lot of younger people around and you had time.
Brown sugar glazed sweet potatoes.
Slice sweet potatoes into 1/4" silces - long ways.
Butter both sides.
Sprinkle brown sugar - enough to caramelize, but not much more than that
Place on tinfoil lined cookie sheet
Bake until soft, but not falling apart.
Add more butter/sugar as needed.
Nom. Nom. Nom.
Chicken wrapped in bacon.... every time I make it there is never enough, even when I made 20 lbs for a wedding. Its easy and fast. Preferred method of cooking is on the barbeque just to crisp up the bacon and add a smokey flavor.
I'm probably in the minority, but I love Brussels sprouts and broccoli. The green bean casserole is a bit too rich for me these days.
I've always been partial to stuffing and cranberry sauce. My aunt makes her stuffing with plenty of turkey meat and juices, big chunks of fresh vegetables and herbs. It is moist and oh so tasty.
Green bean casserole can be good, but too often it is made with heavy amounts of Cream of Mushroom soup out of a can and is too thick and salty for my taste. A homemade green bean casserole without ten cans of Cream of Mushroom soup is a fantastic dish.
Spicy Thai pumpkin soup. I'll be making that this year, without a doubt. Recipe upon request :)
A hot out of the oven--baked sweet potato or yam with butter and cinnamon.
I've never been a fan of traditional green bean casserole. Don't like french cut green beans, and hate hate hate hate hate Cream of Mushroom soup.
I tend to do old favorites with a few twists, though.
I used to be all about the mashed potatoes, and still love them, but a few years ago I made a "mistake" while following a dressing recipe I found on food network, and it was delicious, so I have made it that way ever since. I used to hate dressing since so many of them have celery, but the one I make has maple sausage, cornbread, apples, water chestnuts, parmesan, and a few other things, and it sold me on it. I can't wait to have it again every year. Sometimes I will just make it for dinner because I can't wait another whole year.
My roasted garlic parmesean mashed potatoes.
Giblet gravy. I also make a non-giblet version for the squeamish.
Roasted brussel sprouts with bacon.
We're having a weird dinner this year. The last two to leave the nest (will college never end?) have asked to switch things up and asked for the following in addition to traditional fare:
jalapeño cheddar poppers
dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets
pizza rolls
mozzarella sticks
apple pie tart cookies
a very small birthday style cake from our local Publix grocery store
I'm pretty sure they were pulling my leg, especially when wontons were mentioned, but I'm going to go ahead and make small portions of what they chose. What the heck. It might start a new family tradition. The last time they did this, it was tacos for Christmas Eve night as their father was deployed during the holidays and I was feeling a bit too blue to make a big Cuban Noche Buena dinner for one adult and three little ones. It's become a Christmas Eve tradition.
I make an awesome sweet potato casserole (with no marshmallows believe it or not, still awesome - recipe upon request). That is ALWAYS a hit and requested at any event I or my mother (orignally her mother's recipe) go to over the holiday season.
Also, cranberry sauce and some sort of baked corn casserole. Recently at my in-laws we've been having some serious appetizers and they have become traditions that I now love: hot crab/cheese dip, spinach dip, scallops and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon/BBQ sauce.
Mashed loaded cauliflower & scalloped potatoes with kale. Both are delicious.
Both recipes are at my website but I don't know if self aggrandizement is allowed.
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My step-mom's from Surinam and she makes a dish called "Bahmi" (not sure of the spelling.) It is fried noodles with chicken, onion, garlic and soy sauce. It is absolutely delicious and the entire family is disappointed if she doesn't bring it for some reason.
Mashed Potatoes with an absolutely disgusting amount of gravy smothering them and a clean cut piece of butter on top of all that.
We'll have the basics for our family which are mashed potatoes, lima beans, corn and dressing, plus cranberry sauce. I am not a fan of lima beans (I'm the only one in my family that does not eat them) so I think this year I will make grilled green beans too, I've been really in to them lately.
We always have a roasted vegetable, a ginger butternut squash soup (it's not Thanksgiving without it), 2 or 3 types of cranberry (chutney, relish, & regular), 2 kinds of stuffing (1 oyster, 1 regular) and some stuff I'm forgetting.
and a lot of pies.
Oh hey, I started one of these yesterday on Home - you might find ideas there too.
This corn casserole:
I add shredded cheddar cheese to the mix, probably about 1 cup, because cheese makes everything better. Everyone loves this, and it's super simple to make.
Cranberry Sauce is a must for me, or I won't go to that persons Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe I should just learn to bring my own, lol!
Homemade Mac and Cheese! When it's baked so that the top pieces are crunchy, yum!! My dad's girlfriend makes the best homemade mac and cheese too! I hope she makes it this year :)
@okham: Requesting spicy thai pumpkin soup recipe please!
@thumperchick: Will do, once I get home :)
how up to after holiday leftover experimentation are you?
For several years now, i've kicked around the idea, but never gone through with, a "thanksgiving dinner Pizza" using leftovers as exclusively as possible.
open to much interpretation.
@earlyre: If you do that, mix some mashed potatoes with gravy as the "sauce", mix a little dressing into the pizza dough (and sprinkle some on top of the pizza to crunch up). Don't forget cheddar - cheddar is great with turkey.
Cranberry sauce. Not that made from scratch or chunky canned stuff. Give me the good jellied stuff. Oh man, I'm welling up just thinking about it. The sound it makes when you take it out of the can... oh my!
@jha1223: But they screwed up when they made it so you can only open one end of the can!
@thumperchick: Here you go!
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In light of the answers given here Responding to kaddish in pesukei dezimro can anyone explain why the popular minhag is to answer brich hu at the kaddish before shmone esrei at maariv? There is semichat geulah letefilla which seems to be at least as serious as pesukei dezimra. Sources always appreciated.
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I don't have a source, this is just logical to me. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Kaddish is a tzibur prayer that was instituted to be said by a designated leader (shatz). When the tzibbur listens to that prayer, they are included. If, after saying shmei d'kudsha, the chazan praises "brich hu", it should not be any more of a hefsek if the congregation praises brich hu as well.
It is probably distinguished from the rest of kaddish said by the shatz (Yisgadal, yisbarach) because it is almost parenthetical. The Shatz praised "His holy name", we say brich hu.
This is different than Baruch hu uvaruch shemo during pesukei d'zimra where the praise is not a pasuk of zimra, whereas here, the brich hu is integral to the kaddish, which is, of course, not a hefsek.
This is also different than mixing hearing a bracha with saying a bracha (like kiddush, which is problematic acc. to some) since there is no requirement to personally say the kaddish, it just needs to be said.
Thank you everyone for your insight. I just thought I'd point out one other possibility: the "in hachi nami." Towards the end of this article, R Ari Enkin quotes R Mordechai Willig of YU to specifically not answer brich hu at maariv in the kaddish before shmoneh esrei. This is indeed also my practice.
EDIT: I now have (circumstantial) evidence that Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik held this way as well. See this pdf of Friday night services that claims to be according to his nussach. You'll notice that in all the kaddishes it says to say "brich hu" except the kaddish before shmoneh esrei at maariv! It seems he felt answering then was an interruption and not permitted.
See MB 236 (2) [5] who explains (my translation; my additions in brackets) that our custom to interpose pesukim of ("Boruch HaShem leolom omain veomain" and) "yiru eineinu" and "kaddish" is because in the earlier times their shuls were in the fields and they were frightened to remain there until the time of davenning (=finishing) maariv. So they instituted to say these pesukim which correspond to the 18 mentions of HaShem's name in the maariv Amidah (and they omitted the maariv Amidah) and they finished and left after they had said kaddish.
And now that that we have reinstituted to daven (the Amidah of) maariv in our shuls, we did not remove the original minhag. Nevertheless one must not interrupt with anything else. And there were some Gedolim who had the minhag not to say these pesukim.
IMHO, we see from the MB that the kaddish is part of the original minhag and was said after "Boruch HaShem leolom omain veomain" which was the substitute for the maariv Amidah. There would have been no problem in responding "brich hu" to this kaddish and this is part of the minhag that has not been removed. I think this is what the MB means by "Nevertheless one must not interrupt with anything else." He implies that this is in a sense an interruption but permitted because of the original minhag.


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This summer I am going to give some lectures to some REU students. I am still tossing around ideas for what I am going to talk about, but one thing I would at least like to give one or two lectures on, is Cryptology.
I had a fairly standard undergraduate course on Number Theory where we learned basic cyphers and some things about encryption. However, I am hoping to talk about the relationship of elliptic curves to encryption. Is there an appropriate level book that covers this relationship? Many of the students are strong, but lack some background. Many will have some experience with number theory, but may lack Abstract Algebra and Advanced Calculus.
In the absence of a nice book talking about elliptic curves relation to cryptology, I will probably talk about the excellent book by Ash and Gross.
I was just hoping to add this topic into my mix of lectures so I thought the MO community could offer some suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I wanted to add that Diffe-Hulman will definitely be covered as one of the main research projects will focus on it. The elliptic curves comes by request of the students, who have heard cool things about them :D


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Heritage to Mitt Romney to President Obama: The disputed origins and outcomes of health care reform
Carolyn Kaster, ASSOCIATED PRESS
When Mitt Romney faces off against President Barack Obama tonight in the first of three presidential debates, some of his former rivals may be saying, "I told you so."
During the primaries, Romney's challengers attacked his Massachusetts health care reforms — focusing mainly on the individual mandate, which they argued inspired a key feature of Obamacare.
Rick Santorum led the attacks, arguing that the mandate link compromised Romney and he would be poorly positioned to attack Obamacare as a result.
The irony is that the individual mandate has deep conservative roots. There are key differences between what Romney first proposed and what Obamacare became — differences with disputed implications. But when it comes to individual mandate itself, left and right originally saw more eye to eye.
How the GOP ended up with a candidate whose signature policy achievement is thought to handicap his campaign efforts is a fascinating story in policy development and partisan politics.
The uninsured Porsche
When Romney brought the individual mandate to Massachusetts, he followed the lead of the Heritage Foundation, a staunchly conservative think tank, which saw it as a free market alternative to government-run health care.
Decades ago, Heritage helped lay the intellectual foundations of the Reagan Revolution with detailed conservative policy analysis. But by 1989, health care costs were rapidly climbing, jumping from 9 percent of GDP in 1980 to 12 percent in 1989 — on its way to 17 percent today, and still climbing.
As costs rose, health care availability became iffy for the working poor or the self-employed, pressures that burst out in the bitterly fought Clinton health care push of 1993 and 1994.
The Heritage Foundation had anticipated this fight in 1989, offering a plan to solve critical health care cost and availability problems without top-down federal control.
As Topher Spiro at the liberal Center for American Progress noted, the Heritage Foundation offered its plan at a time "when they were certain that a government run, single-payer system was on its way." The Heritage proposal, he said, "relied on private markets but allowed government intervention to correct market failures." This is the basic framework of Obamacare, Spiro concludes.
The Heritage plan had two simple foundations. First, it argued that American society would not leave people to die in the streets. Second, it insisted that we could not allow the uninsured to shift costs to others.
"If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate but society feels no obligation to repair his car," read a 1989 Heritage Foundation report.
"But health care is different," the report continues. "If a man is struck down by a heart attack in the street, Americans will care for him whether or not he has insurance. If we find that he has spent his money on other things rather than insurance, we may be angry but we will not deny him services — even if that means more prudent citizens paying the tab."
The Heritage plan offered three policy strategies: expand Medicaid for the very poor, offer tax credits for lower and middle incomes and use an individual mandate to force free-riders to join up. All three of these elements eventually entered into Romney's reforms — and from there moved into the 2010 Obamacare legislation.
Insurance in name only
During the 1990s, a handful of states from Maine to Washington experimented with simpler but ill-fated reforms. One tactic simply barred insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Another forced insurers to charge roughly equal premiums to both the young and the old.
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Market making often requires placing and canceling a lot of orders. You have to buy and sell nearly simultaneously, so you need to move orders pretty often to beat other traders. But I would like to optimize my strategy, minimizing the number of orders placed while maximizing the total volume of deals. Otherwise I will pay for each unmatched order. Are there any well-known optimizations? I've invented several optimizations myself. For example, one technique is to ignore orders with volume less than certain amount. But I'm sure there are a lot of optimization techniques already invented by someone else and I just need to find them.
I don't know if you can really improve, the point of Market Making is that you don't know when you'll be executed.
It also depends a lot on the type of product you're trading, it's not the same business Market Making far from the money options (where you will never be executed but just offer a reference price and answer traders phone calls) and MM on Bonds/ETF/Futures....
You could : - Stop moving price if price moves too often without actual trades - Move the price only when the Mid moves significantly (refer to the Bid Price if you want to specify an Ask price) - Move the price only if a certain amount (say more than 1000 lots) is better priced than you
There is no magic, either you filter market moves and get less executions or you prefer making trade volume and lose margin by cancelled orders or prices too close to the mid. The closer you want to be to the mid the less margin you will have.
It sounds like you're trying to filter your input event stream so as to reduce noise. By reducing noise you'll reduce the number of cancel/replace's you're doing and, hopefully, have a better order-to-fill ratio.
Actually depends on the kind of market you are trying to make, if you are a authorized MM some markets/exchanges have special structure for market makers so they don't really pay for every quote that they send to the system, instead they pay a fixed amount of fee to have certain rights and responsibilities for a particular bin(set of instruments) of the market.
You can avoid cancel/replace using pegged orders. Depending on your model that could be very useful.


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Trojans Earn Daktronics All-Southeast Region HonorsMay 13, 2014
Abby Child, Molly Child and Danielle Swygert Named All-Region
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – After helping lead the Anderson University softball team to a school-record 43 victories and its second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, sophomore Molly Child and seniors Abby Child and Danielle Swygert have earned Daktronics All-Southeast Region accolades, as announced Tuesday morning.
Swygert, a first-baseman, was named to the first team along with Molly Child, who roams center field for the Trojans. Abby Child earned the second-team nod at shortstop. The trio also helped lead the Trojans to the South Atlantic Conference Tournament crown and a share of the league's regular-season title, as the Trojans garnered the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Southeast Regional.
Swygert and Abby Child were four-year fixtures with the Trojan infield, as Child set a school record by starting 204 consecutive contests during her career, while Swygert notched 200 career starts in four seasons.
Molly Child, a two-time First-Team All-South Atlantic Conference selection, has not missed a contest in her two-year career and earned the all-region accolade after also being named to the SAC All-Tournament Team. Child was 5-for-14 (.357) during the tournament, including a pair of key doubles, and scored four runs while driving in three runs. She led the SAC with 62 runs scored and 130 total bases, while ranking in the top five in six additional offensive categories. The hard-hitting outfielder belted a pair of grand slams during the regular season and posted a team-high 18-game hitting streak.
Swygert garners the award for the second consecutive season, while ranking third in the conference in doubles (15), fourth in the conference in RBI (55), fifth in batting average (.393) and slugging percentage (.681), and sixth in hits (64). Swygert belted five home runs over the final 14 games of the campaign, while recording a 10-game hitting streak and a seven-game hitting streak in the midst of the season.
Abby Child belted a career-high 15 home runs this season and holds the school record with 47 career round-trippers. She was named SAC Tournament MVP after recording seven hits in 12 at-bats (.583) during the four-game span, punctuated by three home runs, eight RBI, three walks and three runs during the tournament. Child led the SAC in home runs, walks (38), RBI (62) and slugging percentage (.745), while ranking third in runs scored (55) and sixth in both hits (64) and doubles (14). The shortstop also collected second-team all-region honors following her sophomore campaign.
Fourteen student-athletes from 10 different schools earned All-Southeast Region First-Team distinction this season, with the voting reflecting balance on the all-region teams. The University of North Georgia's Victoria Sink was named Southeast Region Pitcher of the Year, while Armstrong Atlantic State University's Alexis Mercer took Player of the Year Honors. Sink is 24-1 with a 1.68 ERA and 114 strikeouts over 175 1/3 innings this season. Mercer, a shortstop, hit .439 this season adding 22 home runs and 49 RBI.
The first-team selections will move on to the All-America ballot. The Daktronics All-America programs honor student-athletes in Division II athletic programs. The voting, nomination and calculations are all conducted by the school's sports information directors.
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2014 Daktronics Softball All-Southeast Region
DISTRICT 3 - Southeast Region
Pitcher of the Year: Victoria Sink, North Georgia
Player of the Year: Alexis Mercer, Armstrong
First Team
C – Taylor Laskey, Wingate
1B – Danielle Swygert, Anderson
2B – Jamie Hockaday, Mars Hill
3B – Haily Jarman, Lenoir-Rhyne [2]
SS – Alexis Mercer, Armstrong [2]
OF – Molly Child, Anderson
OF – Kelli Hensley, Carson-Newman
OF – Whitney Okvist, Georgia College ^
P – Victoria Sink, North Georgia
P – Carley Tysinger, Catawba [1]
P – India Kornegay, USC Aiken [2]
DP – Layce Walker, Armstrong
UT [non pitcher] – Kaitlyn White, USC Aiken
UT [pitcher] – Courtney Poole, North Georgia
Second Team
C – Casey Googe, Columbus State ^
1B – Kim McMillian, North Georgia
2B – Lauren Bessent, Flagler [2]
3B – Sara Kelley, Carson-Newman
SS – Abby Child, Anderson #
OF – Brianna Mulkey, Lincoln Memorial [2] #
OF – Kelsey Akers, Mount Olive
OF – Mackenzie Conley, Flagler
P – Maryann Hoskins, Lenoir-Rhyne
P – Hannah Light, King [2]
P – Stacie Houser, Wingate
P – Brandi Hole, Lenoir-Rhyne
DP – Kayla Saliga, Wingate
UT [non pitcher] – Abi LeRoy, Georgia College
UT [pitcher] – Amanda Snow, Lincoln Memorial
[1] first team in 2013
[2] second team in 2013
^ first team in 2012
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Why do we repeat out loud the verses of Avinu Malkeinu - from Hachzireinu B'Teshuva until Kosveinu B'Sefer Slicha U'Mechila? Why only these verses? Why not others?
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The custom of reciting Avinu Malkeinu repetitively by the chazzan and congregation is brought in Mateh Efrayim (תרב סי"ג), without any explanation. [The Mateh Efrayim himself writes to begin from א"מ קרע, however the Ktzey Hamateh at the bottom brings the custom to start from א"מ החזירנו בתשובה]. The only reason I could find is mentioned in שער יששכר מאמר מאזנים למשפט אות צא: During עשרת ימי תשובה we say א"מ כתבנו, whereas on a fast day we say א"מ זכרנו and during נעילה we say א"מ חתמינו. This could lead to confusion and therefore the chazzan says these verses loudly. (The שער יששכר himself writes that this is an unsatisfactory explanation, and in fact is of the opinion not the recite any verses repetitively).
However this does not explain why to begin from א"מ החזירנו בתשובה. The מועדים וזמנים ח"ו ס"ב explains that if we would begin from א"מ כתבנו לחיים it would appear as if all we are interested in is our own needs (as the Zohar says: "These dogs that say 'Give us life', 'Give us food'), and so we instead begin aloud by requesting that Hashem help us do Teshuva.


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Betting Big on Nitrogen
U.S. Ski Team Pins Hopes for Sochi on Science
Park City, Utah
Most People who saw the footage of American all-everything skier Lindsey Vonn somersaulting over the snow on an Austrian mountain this week, shredding her knee ligaments and breaking her tibia in the process, figured they had just seen the end of the U.S. Olympic team's chances at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Put away the star-spangled cowbells. Leave Old Glory at the bottom of the mountain. Cue up your favorite recording of Mozart's "Requiem."
But here's where the story takes an unexpected turn: Over the last six years, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association—the engine that increasingly drives the medal hopes for the entire U.S. Olympic team—has done something extraordinary. Instead of contenting itself with a couple of quirky stars who might get hot at the Olympics, the federation has invested serious money—at least $1 million a year—to build a deep bench.
U.S. alpine skiers have landed on the podium 27 times this season, including 16 wins. Utah's Ted Ligety dominates giant slalom and on Wednesday, he won the super G world championship. Mikaela Shiffrin, just 17 years old, has already won three world cup slalom races. The U.S. has had three women not named "Vonn" ranked among the top six in downhill.
In cross country, Kikkan Randall has three wins, and is arguably the world's top sprinter. American snowboarders and freestyle skiers continue to set the standard in numerous events. And 18-year-old Sarah Hendrickson looks like a lock to win the first Olympic women's ski jump gold.
Given that these athletes will compete for about half of the total medals available in Sochi, it's fair to say that this American power surge is the country's best hope for sweeping the medal races in its second consecutive Olympics—and winning both the overall and gold-medal races at a Winter Olympics for the first time since 1932.
The architects of this skiing success are an unlikely duo of scientists: Troy Flanagan, who has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia (a country where it barely snows) and his top lieutenant, Jim Stray-Gundersen, a former competitive cross-country skier who became a surgeon and later pursued post-doctoral fellowships in cardiology.
Together, these two men have spent six years conducting a $1 million-a-year science experiment, which makes skiers and snowboarders its laboratory subjects. To evaluate athletes, the USSA staff will hook them up to a system that pumps nitrogen and oxygen into their lungs on a treadmill. They'll strap them to a carbon monoxide re-breathing test that measures how much hemoglobin they're carrying in their blood. (Word on the street is that about 15 grams per kilogram almost guarantees a gold-medal performance). Alpine skiers are asked to strap on a black, pager-sized contraption that measures their speed and angular motion as they hurtle down the mountain.
"The idea is to change the nature of training from simply piling on more work to creating a system based on trial and error, of testing and adjusting, to find what makes that 1% difference," says Flanagan.
This eccentric take on training is on display at the USSA's Center for Excellence, down the road from the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics. One of the most striking sights at the center is the gigantic cross-country skiing treadmill that is connected, via rubber tubing, to two massive metal tanks that contain nitrogen and oxygen.
By adjusting the ratio of the gases athletes breathe while on the treadmill, USSA scientists can make a session that takes place at 6,000 feet feel like it's happening at 2,000 feet, or 8,000 feet, or 4,900 feet—the elevation of the cross country competition in Sochi.
They also created something called a carbon monoxide re-breathing test, which they believe is the most effective way to measure how much hemoglobin an athlete is carrying. Hemoglobin is the key to being able to transport oxygen to muscles. Flanagan also did some of the early design work on the motion sensor for alpine skiers.
Athletes do triple jumps down a 10-meter lane lined with infrared sensors to determine their energy level before a workout. They jump on an electronic plate to measure whether their leg muscles are more catlike or powerful.
To design the suit gold medalist Billy Demong wore in Vancouver during Nordic Combined, which involves both ski jumping and cross-country, Flanagan and his team created a digital avatar of Demong's body and used computer imaging to determine the most aerodynamic pattern for stitching the suit. Demong and the team then traveled to Australia to test the design in a tunnel against a 65-mile per hour gusts.
Alpine skiers attach infrared cameras to the edge of their skis to measure the degree of lateral slippage around a gate.
Part of the effort is to look for patterns—and relationships between things that may be hidden. USSA athletes are asked to record everything about their days: from their workout to how well they slept to whether they had the sniffles. Trainers armed with remote testing kits deliver updates to the database from across the globe.
In the same database, their performances are plotted on a career arc and measured against all other elite skiers. Athletes who drift too far outside the curve of a potential Olympic medal winner stand to lose financial support from the USSA.
"Our mission is to be the best in the world and we measure that by winning Olympic medals," said Bill Marolt, since 1996 the chief executive of the USSA, whose athletes won 21 of 37 U.S. medals in Vancouver in 2010, compared with 10 of 25 in Torino in 2006.
Stray-Gundersen worked for the Norwegian Olympic Committee from 1997-2002, sealing bedrooms of the country's top Nordic athletes and adjusting the oxygen and nitrogen content of the air, so they could sleep in a simulated high altitude environment (he was the scientist who developed the concept of living at high altitude to increase hemoglobin levels). Norway topped the gold medal table in 2002 with 13, and it wasn't simply because kids there grow up on cross-country skis. It was "objective and close monitoring of training," he says.
For athletes, working under this new regime can be a bit baffling. Moguls racer Heather McPhie was a little confused when Flanagan and her coaches told her she needed to build up her endurance. Her event lasts about 30 seconds. Flanagan and the USSA coaches put her on an exercise bike and told her to pedal at a conversational pace for hours. "It seemed like such a waste of time," McPhie says.
They added circuit workouts—box jumps, wall sits, Romanian single leg dead lifts (think multiple knee bends while holding dumbbells), with 30 seconds between stations, and five minutes between circuits. McPhie dropped five pounds, lowered her body fat composition and won her first World Cup event in January 2010. She is now among the world's top-ranked mogul skiers.
If all this science pays off, the U.S. might be able to sweep the gold and overall medal races in Sochi as it did in London—an unprecedented feat in consecutive games in the post-Soviet era. Without Vonn, who was a virtual lock for multiple medals, it's a taller task.
After her crash at the world championships Tuesday, Vonn has been scheduled for major orthopedic surgery. As hard as she'll try to rehab in time forSochi, ski racing at 80 miles per hour is hard enough with two healthy knees.
To complicate matters, Bode Miller, the best male American skier ever, is also out for the season with a knee injury.
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Corrections & Amplifications
The last name of skier Mikaela Shiffrin was misspelled as Schifrin in an earlier version of this article.