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Zurich, Switzerland
Industrial designer Alfredo Häberli shows us how to pass the hours in Zurich, Switzerland, a city with no shortage of timekeepers.written by: Andy Isaacsonphotos by: Gunnar Knechtel01.21.09
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong's architectural development can be traced through time by viewing it panoramically from the city's stratospheric escalators. We survey the layers with local architect Rocco Yim.written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Andrew Rowat01.21.09
Los Angeles, California
Though Los Angeles offers Lindsay Lohan sightings at Pinkberry and addresses on L.Ron Hubbard Way, Dwell explores a different side of the city with land use interpreter Matthew Coolidge.written by: Geoff Manaughphotos by: Noah Webb01.21.09
Boston Pops
The heart of the American Revolution, Boston became home to midnight rides and at least one wild tea party. Yet this spirit of rebellion is tempered by a deep conservatism that has shaped the urban...written by: Jessie Scanlonphotos by: Erik Johnson01.21.09
The Bangkok Beat
Mason Florence, ex-rodeo rider, photo gallery director, and publisher of Bangkok 101, steers us through Thailand's "Venice of the East."written by: Ron Gluckmanphotos by: Dave Lauridsen01.21.09
High Design in Denver
Denver, Colorado, is on a Rocky Mountain high of art and architecture with new museums by Daniel Libeskind and David Adjaye.written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Cameron Wittig01.22.09
The Melbourne Supremacy
Photographer Peter Bennetts cuts out the middleman, photographing his favorite spots in his home base, Melbourne, Australia.written by: Helen Kaiserphotos by: Peter Bennetts01.22.09
Suddenly Shanghai
The developer of Three on the Bund gallery gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the creative side of Shanghai.written by: Ron Gluckmanphotos by: Andrew Rowat01.22.09
Montreal Exposed
Dispassionate about his city's de rigueur "City of Design" designation, architect Gilles Saucier shows us there's more to Montreal than Expo 67.written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Matthew Monteith02.26.09
Reykjavík, Iceland
Gundrún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir of Studio Bility takes us on a guided tour of the city by the smoky bay: Reykjavík, Iceland. She tells us about the local fascination with...written by: Sean LeBrunphotos by: Jesse Chehak02.26.09
The Real Chicago
If your only experience touring Chicago is from watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, architect Brad Lynch has some insider tips for you.written by: Lee Beyphotos by: Chad Holder02.26.09
Inside Istanbul
It's been called Byzantium, Constantinople, Stamboul, and Tsarigrad, but as designer Efe Buluc shows us, there's only one Istanbul.written by: Reyhan Harmanciphotos by: Cristóbal Palma02.26.09
Parsing Paris
Critics call Paris a "living museum." If so, designer Erwan Bouroullec curates a must-see list from a compelling collection.written by: Michelle Hoffmanphotos by: Jessica Antola02.26.09
Architecture Tour: Madrid, Spain
Architect and designer Andrés Jaque takes us on a tour of pre-modern Madrid, highlighting the spaces where progressive design is breaking the mold.written by: Andrew Barschphotos by: Gunnar Knechtel02.26.09
Curating Cologne
Gallerist Martin Kudlek shows us that there's more to Cologne than its cathedral.written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Hertha Hurnaus02.26.09
Copenhagen, Denmark
According to Solveig Nielsen of the Danish Architecture Center, there's nothing rotten in perennially fresh Copenhagen.written by: Marc Kristalphotos by: Thomas Ibsen02.26.09
Living Las Vegas
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but once you leave, you may have trouble banishing Sin City from your mind.written by: David A. Greenephotos by: Roy Zipstein02.26.09
Vancouver Maneuvers
Vancouver, British Columbia, offers a dramatic natural setting, but as Omer Arbel shows us, there's more to the city of glass than an immaculate reflection.written by: Amara Holstein02.26.09
Malmö's Metamorphosis
Once a blue-collar industrial port, Malmö, Sweden, now aims to be a premier design destination. It's on its way.written by: Amber Bravophotos by: Magnus Marding02.26.09
Miami Advice
Cathy Leff takes to the road (and sidewalk) to lead us on an intrepid bicycle tour of Miami's architectural and cultural wonders.written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Roy Zipstein02.26.09
Helsinki Rising
Brian Keaney of TonfiskDesign may be Irish, but his Finnish is flawless; he guides us through icecold Helsinki's hot spots.written by: Christopher Brightphotos by: Hertha Hurnaus02.26.09
Phoenix Envy
Skip Sedona and forget the Grand Canyon? Architect Will Bruder leads us on a journey through slow food and rapid development in Phoenix, Arizona.written by: Christopher Bright02.26.09
Santiago, Chile
Santiago may be a tamer city than its South American brethren, but as architect Sebastián Irarrázaval tells us, there's change afoot where colonial legacy meets modern urban design.written by: Jeanine Baronephotos by: Cristóbal Palma02.26.09
Hecho in Mexico City
Gallery owner Hilario Galguera escorts us through Mexico City, walking the line of life and death, problem and promise.written by: Eviana Hartmanphotos by: Livia Corona02.26.09
Lima, Peru
In Lima,Peru–a visually striking but geologically shaky locale–designer Jodi Puig points out ways in which the city's culturally rich past provides a solid foundation for its design...written by: Cristyane Marusiak02.26.09


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One of my favorite movies is Hocus Pocus with Bette Midler.
One of the lines in the movie is "Listen to them not!" Said by one of the townsfolk in the beginning when they were being hanged.
Is this an example of an anastrophe?
The terms aren't inverted from "Do not listen to them" in fact, 'do' is omitted completely.
Is there another term that would suit what is happening in this sentence? Or similar sentences?

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The Women's Board of Adler Planetarium presented its annual Women in Space Science Award to Gwynne Shotwell, a Northwestern University alum and now the president and COO of the groundbreaking company SpaceX, during a luncheon at the Standard Club.
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Now, she is facing another battle; a battle with cancer.
Pruitt, an exercise enthusist, was doing crunches one day when she noticed a knot in one of her breasts. She immediately called her mother, Connie Pruitt, who scheduled an appointment with Tiffany's regular doctor. The doctor sent Tiffany to the Kitty Degree Center for a ultrasound of the area and a core biopsy. From there, she went to see a surgeon and then to MD Anderson, where a battery of test was performed including another ultrasound and a fine needle biopsy.
"I thought she was just going to have another ultrasound, and I sat there for four hours not knowing what was going on," Connie said.
What was going on was another biopsy because the doctor was not pleased with the first one.
"At that moment, I decided I would have a double mastectomy," Tiffany continued.
Tiffany's grandfather, Odell Marsh, had battled cancer for six and a half years, before passing away, so both Tiffany and Connie were familiar with that world and knew what could happen.
"My daddy had what they call 'ghost'
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Glue together some rocks, decorate them, and make rock people!Materials
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- Make rock people or rock animals by gluing together rocks you have collected on walks.
- Your child can then paint her rock art and add accessories made out of playdough or fabric scraps, ribbon, or lace.
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I am currently writing a proof in which I need to use the fact that if a tree has no involutions, its automorphism group is trivial (ie, if a tree has any non-trivial automorphisms, then it has at least one automorphism of order 2). Equivalently, the order of the automorphism group of a tree is either equal to 1 or it is even.
I can prove this fact directly myself, but I assume I'm not the first person to have noticed it - does anyone know where I can find a published proof - I've tried a few graph theory text books, but I'm not really sure where to look in the literature.


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The 5 Most Half-Assed Monsters in Movie History
You wouldn't think it would be that hard to come up with a movie monster. You just take what people are already afraid of, and make it either bigger, stronger or uglier. People are scared of crime, so you make a movie about a super-strong killer with a messed-up face behind a hockey mask. Boom. Collect your money.
But some writers seem to struggle with this concept. Badly. So, you wind up with movies like...
#5. The Gingerdead Man
The Monster:
Why it Could Have Been Scary
Six words: Gary Busey is the Gingerdead Man. Picture it: Busey dressed up in a gingerbread man costume, hacking, slashing and making pastry-based puns along the way. You can't imagine the amount of money we would have paid to see that. Actually, you probably could have imagined it (it's four dollars).
"I don't know where I am right now!"
Why it Wasn't
Well Gary Busey is the Gingerdead Man, kind of. Gary only appears in the movie's first five minutes as the world's worst robber: He enters a diner, riffles through the cash register but takes no money, shoots people instead, gets caught and, in the end, is sent to the electric chair. So what we get from then on is a very, very shitty puppet voiced by Gary Busey.
And to transform Gary Busey into said puppet, we have to take one hell of a deus ex machina roller coaster: Busey's corpse is cremated and then his evil mom mixes the ashes into a gingerbread mix which she delivers to a local bakery. There, a worker accidentally cuts himself and bleeds a gallon of blood over the mixture that he bakes anyway, and then the oven is hit with a power surge causing the mixture to turn into the Gingerdead Man.
Not all that realistic, according to the experts we talked to.
Most Pathetic Attempt at Horror
Allow us to take you to the film's climatic showdown (WARNING: SPOILERS!). We see Gingerdead Man's absolute failure as a movie monster demonstrated:
In order for him to be scary, they had to arm him with a revolver.
Though we do have to agree this was probably the only ending possible ("Why don't we just have one of the good guys eat him?"). Still, when you use "Got Milk" as a pithy bon mot in your screenplay, you officially must turn in your Writer's Guild Card. It's true, look it up.
#4. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats
The Monster:
Yes, a bed that eats people.
Why it Could Have Been Scary
Successful horror often makes us afraid of everyday, mundane things. Jaws brought terror to swimming in the ocean. The Blair Witch Project spooked us out of any future camping trips. The Ring exploited our natural fear of wet children. So the people behind Death Bed must have thought, "What's something people do every day? Sleep! Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. It's like Hannibal Lecter meets IKEA. Bang, done. Someone pass the cocaine."
Why it Wasn't
To capture its prey, the bed possesses all the wily powers of, well, a bed: cuddliness, soft pillows and 1,000 thread count sheets. Luckily for the ravenous bed, a bevy of horny, and somewhat unattractive, youngsters come upon its spooky old mansion and say, "See that run-down, abandoned mansion stinking with the smells of death and demonic digestive juices? We should totally FUCK in there!"
And there is nothing that gives the murderous bed the munchies like a couple of hormonal kids doing it right on top of him. Can you blame him? His food of choice is fornicating right on his face. Imagine a Whopper giving a blow job to a corn dog on your face, and see if you don't get a little peckish.
You'd think all these randy teens would stop going to the house, where all their horny friends don't return from, and check into a motel instead. But let's face it; getting eaten by a bed is still more appealing than lying down on a urine-soaked Motel 6 mattress.
Most Pathetic Attempt at Horror
Knives cannot defeat it! After the guy strikes the bed, we're treated to the slowest, dullest sequence in horror film history. There is some very subtle acting going on here, and by "subtle" we mean "almost comatose." At the sight of his dissolved hands, the "actor" summons up all the emotional devastation of a guy who just realized the pizza delivery man forgot the crazy bread.
"Oh no, not my favorite hands!"
If that wasn't enough Death Bed for you, feel free to enjoy this clip, in which two guys and one awesome mustache get attacked by a deck of playing cards, and then shoot themselves in the crotch repeatedly with a pistol. In a movie called Death Bed, it probably makes total sense in context.
#3. The Mangler
The Monster:
A laundry folding machine.
Why It Could Have Been Scary
The Mangler is based on a Stephen King short story, and everybody loves Stephen King. Maybe too much; there was a long stretch in King's career where he'd just shit into a fax machine and send it to his publisher with a note reading, "Print this!"
And they did. And then Hollywood filmed the shit Stephen shat.
"Hey, stay on the line, I'm about to pinch off another bestseller."
That was the case with The Mangler, a tale that appeared in one of King's collections of short stories. As in, this was one of those ideas even he didn't think could be stretched into a whole novel. Kind of makes you wonder why...
Why it Isn't Scary
In the film, you have to actually feed yourself to the demonically possessed laundry folding machine. It doesn't sneak into your house, it doesn't tail you in a car and it doesn't creep up on you while you're having sex with your girlfriend in the woods. Quite simply, you must give the Mangler permission to kill you by inserting yourself into the machine.
That's not a monster, that's a pretty standard laundry folding machine. There are far more scary industrial machines that exist in the real world, like metal presses and lumber claws. You know 118 lumberjacks per 100,000 die every year, and lumberjacking equipment isn't even demonically possessed. By our count, the Mangler only takes out a few rather pointless lives. Hey Mangler, call us when you grow a pair of nuts.
Most Pathetic Attempt at Horror
Watch as a middle-aged woman sticks her hand into the Mangler's mouth, over and over, taunting it.
The way we figure, the lady was asking for it. Good news: She's totally eligible for workers comp. Bad news: She's the size and shape of a t-shirt. As for the insane old man on the catwalk? The one with robot legs? We think he just wandered in from a different movie.


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The SWEET Life
The SWEET life is a student oriented initiative run through the LEAD/Prevention Education Office at Western which focuses on providing holistic prevention education to the student body. We here at Western understand that wellness is a dynamic and complex concept especially during the college transition and throughout their colege career, we want to keep Western students well!
The purpose of The SWEET Life is to engage students as Peer Educators and utilize their shared experiences to educate, empathize with, and support each other. The SWEET Life student coordinators spend their time organizing alternative programming and health and wellness education/engagement opportunities, organizing and implementing prevention education and health and wellness campaigns, writing articles for the Top o' the World, and gaining experience as Certified Peer Educators. Last year our initiatives included:
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The 6 Most Accidentally Creepy Movie Romances
#3. Groundhog Day -- Andie MacDowell Had Sex With an Ageless God
The Movie Romance
Phil Connors (Bill Murray) gets stuck in a time loop because he's an asshole. After being forced to relive the same day over and over thousands of times, Phil slowly learns how to not be an asshole and wins the heart of his co-worker Rita (Andie MacDowell), thereby breaking the curse.
"Awesome. Now, back to being a jerk."
The Creepy Implications
The movie itself doesn't say how many times Phil repeats the same day (it distills the bulk of it down to a montage), but there are some clues. As we've discussed before, the original script states that Phil spent 10,000 years trapped in the time loop. That would mean that Rita is now dating a man not only who is older than human civilization, but who intellectually would find it almost impossible to relate to mere mortals.
We guess that would apply to dating both Phil Connors and Bill Murray.
But even if we ignore the script, Phil still has to be incredibly old. Consider the fact that by the end of the movie, he's an expert piano player, French speaker, ice sculptor and bank robber, among other things, none of which he could do before being trapped in the time loop. Psychologists have determined that you need "10,000 hours of deliberate practice, usually under expert tutelage" to become an expert in something -- Phil didn't have expert tutelage (the piano teacher, for instance, couldn't keep up with him after a while), plus he could only practice these things for limited hours every day, and he was in no hurry anyway. He has to be a few hundred years old, at least.
It probably took another several years to teach that groundhog how to drive.
By the end of the movie, not only is he a genius with a shit-ton of skills; he's also learned the intricate details of the lives of everyone in the town (including literally everything about Rita), he knows how to use these details to manipulate everyone around him like they were puppets and, oh yeah, he knows what death feels like. What we're saying here is that at the end of Groundhog Day, Bill Murray is a god.
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Which is what we've been saying all along.
Or at least he's advanced as far from us as we have from cavemen, and consequently Rita is so much his intellectual inferior that their relationship is like ... well, like doing it with a cavewoman. What could they possibly have in common now, besides their mutual hatred of Sonny & Cher?
#2. Starman -- An Alien Impersonates a Woman's Dead Husband
The Movie Romance
The Starman, an alien from a faraway planet, crash lands on Earth and romances a woman named Jenny Hayden, who initially resists him but finally gives in to his charms. Starman has to return to his home planet at the end of the movie, but he leaves Jenny with a little present: She's now pregnant with his space child.
"Seriously, it's like the end of 2001 inside your belly right now."
The Creepy Implications
So how exactly does a normal human woman fall for a creep from another galaxy? Mainly because he's using the body of her dead husband (Jeff Bridges).
He wasn't as sexy before all those white Russians.
Starman comes from a planet impossibly different from our own (at the end he says that if he took Jenny there she'd die), and his natural form appears to be a blue ball of energy. Literally the only reason that Jenny gives him the time of day is because he's hanging out in a body he cloned from her dead hubby, someone so important to her that she obsessively watches old home movies just so she can see him again. If a strange creature shows up wearing his face, of course she's gonna jump his bones.
In fact, he could treat her like absolute shit and she'd still do it -- we know this because that's exactly what he does. First he holds her at gunpoint ...
"This is how advanced alien civilizations solve problems."
... and when she tries to get help from a passing driver, he nearly explodes the crap out of the guy with his magical alien powers. Eventually she falls for him due to a combination of Stockholm syndrome and the fact that he looks like her freaking dead husband, and shortly after they have sex, he casually tells her, "I gave you a baby tonight" and mentions that it will "know everything I know."
"He's gonna be a huuuuuge douchebag."
Finally, Starman gives her a sphere containing some alien magic for her trouble (the equivalent of $10 on the nightstand), and then skedaddles off on his UFO. Honestly, we don't know what director John Carpenter was thinki- wait a second, this is a John Carpenter movie where an alien with the power to assume the appearance of any human crash lands on Earth and proceeds to sow chaos and confusion everywhere as it desperately tries to get back to its spaceship while being pursued by soldiers and scientists?!
Holy balls, Jenny fucked The Thing.
At least we know what the baby's gonna look like.
#1. The Time Traveler's Wife -- Eric Bana Seduces a 6-Year-Old Girl
The Movie Romance
Henry (Eric Bana), a man with a bizarre condition that causes him to spontaneously travel in time at random moments, meets, marries and impregnates a woman named Clare (Rachel McAdams), who travels through time at the usual rate of one second per second. Sci-fi aspects aside, in the end this is just a classic love story about a couple pulling through adversity ...
"My turn to do the dishes? Whoops, there I go again!"
The Creepy Implications
... except for the part where the dude seduced a 6-year-old girl.
Henry meets Clare when they're both in their 20s, but it turns out she already knew him: In fact, Clare tells him that she's been in love with him all her life. Henry's like "Neat," and they have sex. After that, he finds and reads the diary Clare wrote as a little girl, where she's drawn a bunch of pictures of the two of them as a married couple:
"... and then we'll do it on the floor, while other couples watch."
Later, we see the opposite situation: Henry travels to the past and Clare meets him for the first time ... except this time, he's older and she's only 6 years old. Also, he's naked and hiding in the bushes (his clothes don't travel with him, like in Terminator). Little Clare thinks she should call her mom, because they've probably gone through this exact same scenario at school, but Henry tells her, "No no no, don't tell Mommy, just hand me that blanket." The entire scene is supremely creepy.
So, Henry befriends the little girl, knowing that this will result in Clare getting a crush on him that will last her entire childhood (and thus the easiest lay of his life), which brings us back to our first point: Holy shit, this is a movie where the main character seduces a 6-year-old girl.
Hey, it's technically sci-fi. The rules are different, don't judge.
Later still, adult Clare totally calls Henry out when she yells that he "forced [himself] into the heart and the mind of a little girl," which is one way of putting it, we suppose. Now, you could argue that there was nothing Henry could do about it: He's actually tried to change events many times, but it never worked, so even if Henry didn't actively pursue this little girl, she would have fallen in love with him anyway.
Doesn't that make things worse, though? That means there's no such thing as free will -- Clare even acknowledges it during the argument, when she says, "I never had a choice." And, what do you know, the very next scene is her having sex with Henry.
Also, if there's no free will -- isn't all sex rape?
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Heart Health Center
Task Force Updates EKG Recommendations
July 30, 2012 -- If you're at low risk for heart disease and don't have symptoms such as chest pains, you do not need a routine electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG), according to updated guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
If you are at intermediate or high risk but don't have symptoms, there is not enough evidence to say one way or the other whether an EKG will help predict heart disease, says Joy Melnikow, MD, PhD, a member of the task force.
The updated recommendations focus on a specific group, Melnikow says. "This recommendation addresses people without any symptoms of heart disease who are coming to their doctor to find out what they need to do to be healthier."
The task force is an independent panel of experts that considers multiple sources of evidence and makes recommendations about preventive services and tests.
The task force focused on just the EKG, which checks for problems with the heart's electrical activity. It is often done to find the cause of symptoms such as chest pain. An EKG can be a resting EKG or an exercise EKG, also called a treadmill test.
The task force looked at evidence gathered since 2004. The updated EKG recommendations echo the previous ones.
Other organizations differ in their recommendations.
The task force guidelines are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
EKG Recommendations in Detail
The panel asked one question, says Melnikow, professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, Davis. "Once [a person is] evaluated for other risk factors for heart disease -- such as smoking, high cholesterol, sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure -- does it help to add a screening test with either a resting ECG or an exercise ECG?"
"Our answer is, the net benefit of that is zero or possibly slight harm in low-risk people," Melnikow says.
Among the possible harms are false-positive EKGs. Those could lead to unnecessary procedures such as angioplasty, she says.
For intermediate- and high-risk adults, the evidence was not sufficient to make a recommendation, the task force says.


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Radiation Exposure Only Cause of Thyroid Cancer?
Last Modified: August 14, 2012
Does getting thyroid cancer have to do with a history of it in your family?
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE, at Penn Medicine responds:
Some thyroid cancers are associated familial cancer syndromes. Those are unusual. Most thyroid cancers are sporadic meaning they are not associated with a family history of thyroid cancer. That said, a family history of thyroid cancer should be mentioned to the evaluating physician whenever present.
This question and answer was part of OncoLink's Brown Bag Web Chat Series. View the entire transcript of Focus on Thyroid Cancer.


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The new industrial gas complex will provide hydrogen, syngas, nitrogen and oxygen for BPCL's Kochi refinery and its proposed petrochemicals complex. The facilities will support India's largest-ever outsourced hydrogen requirement and will result in Air Products' first hydrogen facilities in India.
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Is it a bad idea to have a home gym on the first floor of a house with a squat rack and barbell? Most home gyms with racks/barbells I have seen are in the basement or garage on concrete. My concern would be the occasional dropped deadlift or bailed clean smashing through the floor. Could mats, plywood platforms, and/or bumper plates mitigate serious damage?
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It definitely depends on the construction of your house. Some home features require extra care, such as grand pianos and hot tubs. Essentially, anything that puts a large amount of weight in a relatively small area.
Covering the whole workout area with another layer of 5/8" plywood will help provide additional rigidity and disperse the weight better. However, if you have an older house, you might have floor joists that are fairly wide apart such as ever 24". If that's the case, you'll need to add some more floor joists for extra support.
Now, if we are talking a total of 300lbs of weights, you should be fine. If you are pulling four big plates a side, you should definitely have the home inspected to see if it can handle the weight. This is true even particularly if you get a proper lifting platform (2" cement base with 2 layers of 3/4" plywood on top). The weight of the platform itself is enough to warrant caution.
To be absolutely sure, if you have a concrete foundation below you, you should be OK.
How much weight are you talking about? A good test is if you bounce on the floor do you go through it?
Seriously, I would recommend a plywood platform to keep your floor from getting messed up, make sure you put padding under it and that it's thick/strong enough for your weight plus the rack plus the max weight you plan on lifting. Make sure that any drops won't 'rattle' dishes, pictures, etc. in adjoining rooms. I think the main reason for most home gyms in basesments is due to the need to keep the wife happy OR general space issues. Here's my workout area (note the cat litter pans adding to the decor)


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6 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
#3. The Bradbury Building -- Recognize These Stairs?
The Bradbury Building, a Los Angeles landmark built in 1893, has been called the most famous building in science fiction. Its distinctive interiors have appeared in several sci-fi movies and TV shows over the past 70 years. Sure, it looks pretty mundane in the picture above, but add some moody lighting and copious amounts of trash ...
And Harrison Ford's robot boner.
... and it becomes one of the most recognizable settings from Blade Runner. Yep, this is the building where the inventor guy lives with his creepy robot friends and where the rooftop battle at the end takes place.
But Ridley Scott wasn't the first director to shoot in this place, or even the first to shoot a tense chase sequence where a non-human killer fights a man who doesn't know that he's a robot. Twenty years earlier, the same thing happened in the Outer Limits episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" (the same one that "inspired" Terminator). Here's a comparison:
The building also has an episode of Star Trek and a bunch of classic sci-fi movies on its resume. More recently, however, it has branched out into other genres. Remember at the end of (500) Days of Summer when Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a job interview on the top floor of a building and meets a girl conveniently named Autumn? It's the same place:
A better ending would have been revealing that Zooey Deschanel is a replicant, and then she shuts down.
Last year, the building was also used in the Academy Award-winning silent film The Artist as the place where the male and female protagonists meet by accident and don't talk:
Before that, it showed up briefly in movies like Lethal Weapon 4, Pay It Forward, and Chinatown. It had a more sizable role in the 1994 Jack Nicholson movie Wolf, playing the building where Nicholson's werewolf character worked as a publishing editor:
OK, we have to admit that working in this place would be pretty neat (in fact, Marvel Comics has an office there). But what if you don't like taking the stairs? Don't worry, the Bradbury Building also has a famous elevator, as seen, once again, in Blade Runner ...
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Greystone Mansion is a property in Beverly Hills that has been featured in over 100 movies and episodes of TV shows. We're guessing that the main reason for this is that it's like a 15-minute drive between Hollywood and Beverly Hills, but it probably doesn't hurt that this place is also classy as shit. So, as a result of this rampant reuse of the same location, it turns out that the older Lebowski's mansion in The Big Lebowski ...
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... and Kermit the Frog's fancy home in the heart-wrenching "Pictures in My Head" song from The Muppets:
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Kermit's song isn't the only musical sequence shot in this place. There's also the video for Meatloaf's classic "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" ...
"That" = "Stop leaving lit candlesticks unattended."
... and Elton John's "I Want Love," starring a younger, emo-er Robert Downey Jr.
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... which is also used as the family mansion for at least two generations of Osborns (Willem Dafoe and James Franco) in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies:
Complete with the Polokus masks from Rayman 2.
The same property also portrayed the exterior garden in X-Men (where it was the garden of Professor Xavier's school) and Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, in possibly the first Marvel/DC cinematic crossover. But that's just the tip of the iceberg: Greystone Mansion has been used in movies as diverse as The Social Network, The Bodyguard, Eraserhead, The Dirty Dozen, National Treasure, and The Prestige ... basically anything with a non-British rich character.
For instance, here are the Ghostbusters coming into the mansion to meet the mayor of New York City in Ghostbusters II ...
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Monument Valley, with its vibrant colors and sandstone pinnacles, contains some of the most recognizable rock formations in the world. Since when do people give a shit about geology, you ask? Since never: The real reason you may recognize these rocks is that they've been used a fuck-ton throughout the valley's illustrious Hollywood career.
For starters, John Ford shot no less than nine movies in Monument Valley, including classic John Wayne Westerns like Stagecoach and The Searchers.
As well as the bulk of the Road Runner cartoons.
Thanks to Ford and Wayne, Monument Valley became synonymous with cowboys shooting each other -- so it was only natural that when Marty McFly traveled back to 1885 in Back to the Future Part III, he landed right smack dab in the middle of this place:
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Astronaut Dave Bowman also ends up in Monument Valley at the end of the stargate scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, although Stanley Kubrick flipped the colors to make the place look like an alien planet here:
In the original ending, Dave wakes up in Utah from a long, confusing peyote trip.
Monument Valley has another cameo in Forrest Gump, which we should note was filmed pretty much everywhere. This is a key scene for the movie, though, because it's the area where Forrest suddenly decides to finish his cross-country run.
"I may not be a smart man, but I'm sure I've seen this place before."
And, of course, the anus-clenching opening scene of Mission: Impossible II was shot entirely on top of one of those huge rocks, because getting insanely high is the only way Tom Cruise can experience what we humans call "pleasure."
The film's accompanying music video by Metallica is also set in Monument Valley, as is the sequence set to the Band's "The Weight" at the beginning of Easy Rider. Another low-budget art-house classic, Wild Wild West, also had some scenes there, including the one in which Will Smith is chased by a giant robot spider or some bullshit:
And finally, the upcoming Lone Ranger movie starring Johnny Depp was filmed predominantly in the valley, bringing it back to Westerns. In fact, this spot in the following promotional still from the movie is now called "John Ford's Point":
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I've played in a couple of play-by-post games over the last couple of years, and they've all ended more-or-less unsatisfactorily. Usually posting would slowly wind down until we hit a bottleneck of some kind and it stopped entirely. If you have ever run or played in a PBP or PBEM of this kind that survived more than a couple of months: What techniques and measures in the area of system, style, social contract, or otherwise work to make a game like this maintain player engagement and game momentum?
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I've run several successful PBPs and several unsuccessful ones. (It's been a very long time since I did PBEM.) This is based on my own experiences only.
Have good infrastructure
I usually set up a phpBB-based forum solely for use with the PBP, rather than using an area of someone else's forum. It makes it much easier for me to administer and tweak.
I set up custom ranks for each player to indicate which character he or she is playing, which makes it easier for the players and myself to keep things straight. I encourage avatar use as well.
Another advantage of having your own forum is that you can easily set up "private" forums, each of which only a given player can see. This is useful for "note passing," keeping track of xp and private conversations, and so on without having to go through a backlog of PMs.
I usually have an out-of-character forum for intros, general discussion, and metagame stuff, and an in-character forum for actual play. I devote a separate thread to each "delve," as I'm currently running an OD&D campaign.
Be active, have active players, and communicate interruptions
The paramount concern in PBP, in my experience, is having active players. I ask for some kind of substantive post at least once a day. Stagnation is doom in the PBP realm — once things slow down, heat death follows. If I can't post for a few days — which happens — I let everyone know, and expect the same.
Start the game with clear direction
One thing I discovered running a City State of the Invincible Overlord PBP a couple years back is that too many options at the beginning of play can lead to decision paralysis as the players try to decide what to do. In a dungeon-type game, I'd recommended starting at the adventure site, getting stuck in, then getting to the roleplaying after the players have the swing of things. In a story-type game, I'd consider starting in media res, like with a chase scene or something that gets the players thinking in-character quickly.
Pace your background exposition
Finally, I'd avoid excessive infodump. It's great for you, as the referee, to know lots about your setting, but I'd keep the early background to just enough to give the players a sense of things and parcel the rest out through play.
I ran a PBeM game for several years, and have done a number of successful and "failed" with others. I've only done free-form this way, though. (I call it "Collaborative Fiction" when talking to non-nerds.)
One of the keys to keep things going is to be continually recruiting. New blood keeps things alive. For a free-form PBeM, I'd suggest at least 6 players minimum; I prefer 8-10 as my ideal. I've also found some sort of public "standard" helps greatly -- "I will post at least once a week" sort of thing. I've tried "Just post when you're able" games, and they tend to grind to a halt in pretty short order as you've described.
You also want to find and nurture the leader-sorts within the group -- you want people who will kick the group when it slows down too much, either by throwing in new ideas or plot twists or whatever else. You also need to be willing to cut a plot/storyline/quest closed when things start to flag, and start up a fresh new one again -- in my experiences, about a month and a half is enough for a single storyline, which means if you throw in two weeks of down time between plots, you have a nice rough two-month schedule for plots.
As you note, PbP games have a tendency to peter out within a few months, but some great ones last and there are definitely things you can do to maximize their chances:
For the GM
One of the biggest factors will be recruiting great, reliable players. Assuming you don't already know them,
Here are two somewhat different examples of very successful recruiting posts (which attracted many applicants and inspired them to write up strong characters).
Once the game is running,
For Game Seekers
I recommend looking for many of the same things above, e.g.
I had a PBP game that went on for a few years. Best advice I can give is be very selective of who joins. All it takes is a few people to go stagnant posting late which drags the game on and people get bored. People you know that will post regularly and can commit is the only way to go. If you have people that are not posting per your stated guidelines. Boot them and replace them right away. Otherwise it's not worth your time or your friends. If you treat it like an exclusive PBP, it's more likely to be treated like an exclusive pbp. For the game I had going on for a few years. I was lucky! Great bunch of guys, but after a year or two people get really busy with real life. So try to set short stories so that if someone has to bail, they might be able to at least finish out the chapter in your on going pbp campaign.
1) Don't rush things
It can be tempting to try and start the game off with a flurry of activity, refreshing the thread constantly, replying to every little thing as soon as possible, pushing players to post as often as possible, but ultimately you won't be able to keep this up. The game will start to slow down, and once that starts, there's no stopping it.
The key to a long-lived Play-by-Post game is to embrace the slow, steady nature of the format. Go for quality of posting rather than quantity. If you can, try to post around the same time of day each day, or perhaps one or more of a handful of times. Make it part of your daily routine, checking in once before work, or just before dinner, or after putting the kids to bed, or whatever works for you. If you keep a steady pace, your players will be able to adapt to that pace and work the game into their own schedules, as well.
2) Keep the action dense.
This doesn't necessarily mean combat, but generally if you're waiting for your players to do something, make sure that what you're waiting for them to do is actually interesting. Some decision for them to make, some event or dialogue for them to react to. If you can keep things moving by simply rolling a few dice and/or continuing to describe the scene, do so.
The exception to this comes when you want to give your players some time to chat and interact among themselves, but try to be clear that this is what you're expecting to happen, and if things start to slow down, be ready to jump back into the action again. Ultimately you are responsible for driving the game forwards; you can't rely on your players to move things along for you.
3) Make sure things are clear for your players.
Don't wait for your players to ask about their surroundings, or if they can take a certain course of action. Try to predict what your players will ask or attempt to do, and describe the scene and possible courses of action as best you can. If you think your players might try to ford a river, tell them what they would need to roll, and how high. If you think your players might want to know what weapons the orcs are wielding, tell them. If you think your players might look for possible escape routes, list them.
The goal here is to make sure that your players are posting actions, not questions. This helps keep your players interested; there's always something for them to do when they check in each day. However, this also extends to making sure your players have clear actions to take. They aren't left wondering what they can do, they know what they can do, and how to do it. Of course, it's always possible that your players will take an action that you didn't foresee, and that's half of what RPGs are about, but even then, the more information the player has to work with, the more they'll be able to build on that and come up with something else that you didn't expect.
The biggest killer I've seen to online play for RPGs is combat with initiative order. So in terms of system, picking one that de-emphasises combat, or at least handles it equally would be necessary. Alternatively, some systems, like Burning Wheel have a combat system that isn't done step by step like most traditional systems, that lends itself better to PBP/E. Another thing is avoiding a system that requires checking against TNs. If you ahve to ask for permission before you declare your action, it really slows things down, but if you can just roll and determine the results yourself, you can string together several actions in a single post. This means d20 systems are a particularly bad fit, because they offend on both counts. Something like Alternity, or even moreso Donjon would work much better.
Secrets to running a play by post game? I would sat the first is having a game YOU LOVE. (If you do not love the theme, world, and such, the game will not thrive).
Save deeper stuff for other things.
I have played in and run several PBeM games and as with the other posters, some have failed and some have not. One (sodiumnoir.com) ran for 10 years and it was eventually my failings that killed it in the end. I couldn't handle a disruptive but outwardly helpful player and they eventually ruined it for everyone. Even the person running the game is susceptable to the many things thta can kill a PBeM.
Here are my tips to add the other great advice when running an online game.
1) be strict with troublesome players. The number one killer of an online game is the guy who spoils it for everybody else. You have to keep a harsh control over disruptive influemces, espechially the ones who will spoil the game for you as the GM.
2) share the workload. If the game gets big, give your star players room to run thier own substories. Ask good players to help newbie players, treat it like a community event. If people offer to develope the website, let them.
3) keep everybody reined in to start with. No matter how great a player seems to be, don't let them stretch the rules of the setting or to create an 'unusual' character. make everybody, even your friends you already trust, prove themselevss first. Once they have shown that they are a benefit to this game and this setting, then you can let the good players do kinky things with their characters or even create seciond characters.
4) have a page for the rules of your game. make sure players know the way you deal with non posting and the like. An unyeilding system make sit much easy to deal with issues.
5) make sure players have access to you or the GM/storyteller. Make sure their access to him/her is structured and they don't bug the GM so much he starts to hate the game.
6) the number 2 killer is the GM/storyteller loosing interest. How you prevent this I have no idea. The best games I played in were run in chapters, with natural ends to each story. Even when the GM lost interest and the story fizzled out, they'd still run good stories in the past and that is what I remembered.
7) don't try to fix a lull in the game by throwing new stuff at it. Games can get drown in all the great ideas at times. Every player is a frustrated storyteller of some type and they will all want to throw cool subplots for their character at you. You will want to throw a bunch of cool things at them. Find a way of limiting that and you'll be a better man than I.
I haven't run very many games on PBP myself, but I have been in a few very successful ones. Here's what I've seen that works, specifically for using someone else's PBP site.
Separate OOC and IC
This is absolutely essential in a PBP game. If you're using an RPG forum, keep two threads going at once - one for OOC and one for IC. If the forum has a dice-roller, always roll in the OOC thread, or if you prefer and the forum has it, use Spoiler tags to keep the roll separate from in-game action. If you need to tell a player something secret, send a private message. If you need to discuss actions out-of-character, use the OOC forum OR if you have a small group you could even host an IM chat for more elaborate OOC discussions.
Have Everybody Read The Rules
PBP is one system where not knowing the rules (or not having access to them) can really grind a game to a halt. Make sure your players know the rules before getting started. They don't need to be experts - they just need to know enough to play their character, or to be able to look up a rule if needed. If one player doesn't have access to the rules for any reason, make sure they have access to someone who does, or create a short 'cheat sheet' of things that player will need to know in advance.
Keep People Posting
There will be periods when players aren't posting, and it can be a real drag on the game. Make a minimum post requirement - at least once a week for larger groups, or once a day for smaller groups. Make it clear that if a player needs to go on vacation, they must inform the rest of the group well in advance, and preferably leave a way for the other players to continue.
Be Prepared For A Long Haul
If you're doing a PBP right, it will last for a long time. Not 'might', it will, inevitably, last for a very, very, very long time. Really. A single encounter in whatever system you're using can take weeks to complete. A single quest can take months. And a whole campaign can easily take years to finish. This is inevitable. Accept it, embrace it, and be prepared to take copious character notes in case you forget something that happened literally a year ago.


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COLUMBUS - Ohio State coach Urban Meyer talked about legends after Ohio State's stunning 29-22 overtime win over Purdue on Saturday.
But the players who were at the center of a game-saving comeback in the final 47 seconds weren't legends, weren't household names and don't wear the numbers on the jerseys fans buy to wear to games.
The key players in a comeback that probably ranked with anything in the last two decades of Ohio State football were a seldom-used backup quarterback, a receiver who was so far out of favor with Ohio State's coaches he'd had no catches this season, and a tight end who just played his way into the starting lineup in the last two weeks.
Kenny Guiton, Chris Fields and Jeff Heuerman weren't on anybody's list for hero duty until the magic that unfolded after more than a few fans had given up and were headed toward the parking lot.
"It was a great, great win. Some of the efforts I saw today were legendary," Meyer said. "That was a moment I'll never forget."
No. 7 Ohio State (8-0, 4-0 Big Ten) was down 22-14, starting on its own 39-yard line with no timeouts, with 47 seconds to play with quarterback Braxton Miller at Ohio State Medical Center being examined for a possible concussion.
It was not a situation that created a lot of optimism, but Guiton, Fields and Heuerman changed that.
Then in overtime, Ohio State's offense and defense both dominated in a way they had been unable to do in regulation to complete the comeback.
Miller, who was released after doctors found no concussion symptoms, was injured at the end of a 39-yard run late in the third quarter with Purdue leading 20-14.
Guiton's first two series at quarterback ended with a safety that put Purdue up 22-14 and an interception.
But he started the final OSU possession in regulation with a 39-yard throw to Devin Smith, then finished it with a 2-yard touchdown pass to Fields with two seconds to play and a two-point conversion pass to Heuerman.
In overtime, Guiton connected with Jake Stoneburner for a 17-yard completion for a first down. Three plays later OSU scored on a 1-yard run by Carlos Hyde, then stopped Purdue on four plays.
"A lot of nerves came through my mind and everything. The people around me got me calmed down and ready to go and went out and had some fun with it," Guiton said. "It (the final drive) is a longshot situation but at the same time you have to have your head up and be ready to take it on."
Purdue (3-4, 0-3 Big Ten) appeared ready to duplicate the upsets previous Boilermakers teams had hung on Ohio State last year and in 2009. But this time, Ohio State had an answer - an unexpected one, but still an answer.
Purdue coach Danny Hope said his team gave Guiton too much time to throw on the final drive and in overtime.
"We didn't manufacture enough pass rush and Ohio State was able to get better protection than I thought they should have been able to get," he said. "They made the plays they needed to and we didn't."
Purdue made the big plays early, starting with an 83-yard touchdown pass from Caleb TerBush to Akeem Shavers on the first offensive play of the game, then followed that up with a 100-yard kickoff return for a score by Akeem Hunt later in the first quarter.
Another big play, a 31-yard pass from TerBush to Gary Bush late in the third quarter, put Purdue up 20-14.
Purdue, which had given up 467 yards rushing to Wisconsin last week and 304 yards on the ground against Michigan two weeks ago, limited Miller to 47 yards rushing on 12 carries and 9 of 20 for 113 yards passing.
Hyde led Ohio State with 91 yards on 19 carries, but the offense was outgained 347 yards to 342 by Purdue.


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The title says it all. I want to build my own frame and need lugs that will fit the roadster (e.g. Raleigh Tourist) geometry.
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If by "roadster geometry" you mean a slack (66-68 degree) head tube and seat tube angle I think you might be out of luck for anything commercially produced. The cost of creating a wide variety of investment castings and distributing the product is high and the demand is minuscule. You might look into TIG-welded custom lugs, such as those made by ANT bikes or by Mark Nobilette as described in Bicycle Quarterly vol. 4 no. 4. This ANT-built bike appears to be an example of a roadster geometry frame using custom lugs. Most of the examples of bicycles I've seen in this style appear to have just very simple tubular lugs rather than anything particularly fancy.
No Roadster lugs are available for the independent or small shop. That is why I had to make them.
Roadster lugs are made [India, China, Taiwan and of course in the Netherlands], it is just that distributors like Nova and Ceeway do not buy them.
I find it amusing about the comment about TIG welding lugs. Why lug anything really...it is just for looks. Stamped lugs are welded together :) Only the expensive racing lugs are cast.
I think you best bet is to try and find them in India or Taiwan and ask for a sample.
Try this link
The best place I've found is Henry James Bicycle supply. They make frame building jigs, and supply most boutique US based frame builders.
Ceeway is a good choice in Europe.
Some lugs may need to be custom cast, or modified, depending on the head tube and seat tube angles you choose. The fork rake will need to be fairly slack to match that style.
Nova Cycle Supply offers many framebuilding components including lugs. I can't speak to geometries.


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I am feeling very loved. Last evening I received an incredible gift. My fan group on Ravelry, lead by the intrepid cadburyskeeper got together (in an on-line sense) and made an afghan for me. The 6″ hexagons, they dubbed them "hexagaughans" since I am so into them, were knit and crocheted by folks in nine countries: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, United States. That so amazing to me, I smile (and tear up a bit) every time I think about it.
They asked me my fiber preference (wool) and for some ideas of the colors I go for. I professed my love of the muddy browns and purples often found in Amish quilts with a few shots of pink and orange thrown in for contrast, and they went to work. When I unwrapped the gift, the whole berroco office declared that it looked like me.
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March 19, 2014
New York University Professor Joseph LeDoux has been named a recipient of the William James Fellow Award, an honor bestowed by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), in recognition of his lifetime achievements in research focused on the brain mechanisms of memory and emotion.
The William James Fellow Award, given annually since 1989, honors individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology.
LeDoux, a professor in NYU's Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, has worked on emotion and memory in the brain for more than 20 years. His research, mostly on fear, shows how we can respond to danger before we know what we are responding to. It has also shed light on how memories about threat are formed and stored in the brain. Through this research, LeDoux has mapped the underlying neural circuits through the brain, and has identified cells, synapses, and molecules that make this form of learning and memory possible.
In addition to numerous publications in scholarly journals, LeDoux, who is also director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collaborative venture between NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, has published books that present his work to a wider audience. These include The Emotional Brain (Simon and Schuster, 1998), which focuses mainly on emotion, and Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Viking, 2002), which casts a broader net into the areas of personality and selfhood. He is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Other psychological scientists receiving the James Award for 2015 include Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago; Michael Gazzinaga, the University of California, Santa Barbara and doctoral mentor of LeDoux's; and Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia.
They will all be honored at the 2015 APS Annual Convention, to be held in May 2015 in New York City.
Editor's Note:
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Remember how last week a colleague of mine moved in up the street and I brought Ethiopian food and cupcakes? Well, yesterday she returned all the food containers and baked us these thank you cupcakes. How awesome is that? It looks like vegan cupcakes truly are taking over the world.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thank you Cupcakes
7 comments:
- VeggieGirl said...
Wow, what a kind colleague you have!! Talk about a delicious way to say 'thank you' - hooray for vegan cupcakes taking over the world, for real!! :0)
- April 14, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- Calimaryn said...
That is so sweet! What a great new neighbor!
- April 14, 2008 at 11:09 AM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
HOW SWEET! (the neighbor that is.. the cakes look might sweet - and tasty - too!)
- April 14, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Alice (in Veganland) said...
Wow! That IS a nice way to say thank you. If only because they took the time to look how to bake a vegan cupcake!
- April 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM
- oatmeal said...
It totally wouldn't be a bad thing at ALL if vegan cupcakes do take over the world! They're awesome and healthy, what more can you ask for?
And it's so nice of your colleague to bake the cupcakes for you! It looks tasty :]
- April 15, 2008 at 9:34 AM
- Jen said...
Are those Isa's jelly donut cupcakes?
- April 16, 2008 at 4:19 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I think they were a recipe based on Isa's recipe. They were similar, but not the same.
- April 16, 2008 at 5:00 PM
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Why did France put so many resources into fighting Algeria in comparison to its other former colonial holdings? Was there anything unique about the French-Algerian relationship. On Wikipedia it says that France regarded Algeria in a way similar t how the USA think of Hawaii and Alaska. Is this true? If it is, why?
Why did France put so many resources into fighting Algeria in comparison to its other former colonial holdings?
Algeria was more then a colony, there were French Départements in Algeria, from 1848 on until 1962 it was an integral part of the French motherland.
See Wikipedia or the french wikipedia article for the French départements in Algeria
This does not mean, that Algerians were full citizens.
See also Process of Colonization:
The other answers pointed out very correctly that Algiers was legally considered a part of France. What must be added is that there was a very large body of French colonists in Algiers, which was not the case with the other French possessions, whatever their legal status.
Algeria was considered a "back door" to France, from the south. In the hands of a hostile country, England, Germany, or even Libya/Egypt, it was seen as a potential invasion route to France. On the other hand, if France retained a foothold in Africa through Algeria, it could continue to influence its former colonies in "French West Africa" (which it does to a small degree, to this day).
France looked at Algeria that way an American might see Latin America through the Monroe Doctrine: a "no fly" zone for hostile foreign countries. Algeria is the part of Africa that is closest to France.
Julian Jackson's account of France in the 1930s and 1940s France: The Dark Years shows how France's African empire was seen as compensation for the decline in French prestige and influence in Europe during this period.
Algeria was the most important element in this project because of proximity to France, long historical association, and larger settler population than elsewhere. Writing in 1938 Le Matin declared the keys to French security were the Vosges, Alps, Pyrenees and Atlas Mountains (my emphasis).
Le Matin also stated at this time:
It's hard to imagine an equivalent statement of imperial projection coming out of London or other European capitals.
There were multiple reasons why Algeria was so important to French:


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DJIA Climbs Back Above 13000
NEW YORK—Stocks made a Black Friday foray far into the green, as shares locked down their biggest weekly percentage gain in months in a lightly traded short session.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 172.79 points, or 1.4%, to 13009.68 in light trading. Over the week's four trading days—the U.S. stock market was closed Thursday for Thanksgiving—the blue-chip gauge climbed 421.37 points, or 3.3%, for the measure's best weekly rise since the week of June 8.
All 30 Dow components closed higher, as blue chips closed above 13,000 for the first time since the U.S. elections on Nov. 6. Technology stocks Hewlett-Packard, HPQ 0.50 % Microsoft MSFT 0.84 % and Cisco Systems CSCO 0.03 % led the blue chips, rising 4.2%, 2.8% and 1.9%, respectively. Still, H-P was down 3.2% on the week after it announced a charge related to accounting irregularities at a company it acquired last year.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 18.12 points, or 1.3%, to 1409.15 and the Nasdaq Composite Index gained 40.30 points, or 1.4%, to 2966.85. Nine of the S&P 500's 10 sectors rose, and tech shares led gains.
Stephen Wood, chief market strategist with Russell Investments, said he expects stocks to have big price swings in that time, as investors continue to focus on the prospect for higher tax rates and spending cuts, the so-called fiscal cliff.
"I think pricing is going to be volatile. On any given day, a bounce back from recent weakness isn't surprising," Mr. Wood said. Russell manages about $159 billion in assets.
Asian markets were mostly higher after Chinese data on Thursday showed that manufacturing activity in November expanded for the first time in 13 months. A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas also gave global stocks a boost.
Following gains in overseas stock exchanges, "the U.S. market could be playing a bit of catch-up with the China number," said Todd Salamone, senior vice president at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
European markets rose on the back of Thursday's strong session, as better-than-expected German data kept investors in a buoyant mood. The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 0.6%, putting the index on track for a fifth consecutive gain, after rallying 0.6% on Thursday.
The Ifo Institute's business confidence index for Germany rose to 101.4 in November from 100 in October, exceeding expectations of a decline to 99.5. A similar survey of French businesses also indicated increased confidence, while Italian retail sales were better-than-expected.
Front-month crude-oil futures rose 0.8% to $88.10 a barrel, while front-month gold futures tacked on 1.3% to $1,751.40 a troy ounce. The dollar lost ground against the euro but edged higher against the yen. Yields on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury rose to 1.696% ahead of the bond-market's close at 2:00 p.m. New York time.
The consumer-discretionary sector also gained on the busiest shopping day of the year, often referred to as Black Friday for putting retailers' books into the black for the year. Apple, AAPL -0.12 % Target TGT 0.72 % and Wal-Mart Stores WMT -0.37 % advanced 1.7%, 1.2% and 1.9%, respectively.
KIT Digital plunged 64% after the video-management software company said its financial statements for the last three years will be restated after accounting errors and irregularities were discovered.
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Research In Motion rose 14% on the back of positive analyst comments regarding the much-anticipated launch of the BlackBerry 10 in February. Shares were down in Canada, however, after surging 17% Thursday, when U.S. markets were closed.
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How to raise gold production in Kingdom of Camelot on Android? I know raising taxes helps but people's are less happy. Any alternatives?
You can do any of the following:
Note: If you are worried about your population's happiness you can raise your taxes to make gold while your not playing, then decrease the taxes when you require the use of your population.
Maximum taxes occurs at 50% tax rate. Because the population available to make money goes down as you raise taxes, each percent you raise the tax you get just a little less than the last percent you raised it by. When you hit 50%, you actually start making less money as you raise the taxes.
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BOOM!'s smash hit "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" comic book series by Kyle Higgins & Hendry Prasetya continues as Tommy tries to pull it together.
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Rita Repulsa is busy ripping off faces as the Green Ranger feels alienated in BOOM!'s "Power Rangers" #3 by Kyle Higgins & Hendry Prasetya.
BOOM! Studios scored a major sales victory in March 2016 with a No. 5 finish, and talked to CBR News about the achievement and what's next.
Original Black Power Ranger Walter Jones joined a panel of creators in a discussion of the show's legacy and new comic.
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I am currently reading this document and am stuck on Theorem 3.3 on page 11:
Let $H$ be a nonempty finite subset of a group $G$. Then $H$ is a subgroup of $G$ if $H$ is closed under the operation of $G$.
I have the following questions:
It suffices to show that $H$ contains inverses.
I don't understand why that alone is sufficient.
Choose any $a$ in $G$...then consider the sequence $a,a^2,..$ This sequence is contained in $H$ by the closure property.
I know that if $G$ is a group, then $ab$ is in $G$ for all $a$ and $b$ in $G$.But, I don't understand why the sequence has to be contained in $H$ by the closure property.
By the Pigeonhole Principle, since $H$ is finite, there are distinct $i,j$ such that $a^i=a^j$.
I understand the Pigeonhole Principle (as explained on page 2) and why $H$ is finite, but I don't understand how the Pigeonhole Principle was applied to arrive at $a^i=a^j$.
4. Reading the proof, it appears to me that $H$ = $\left \langle a \right \rangle$ where $a\in G$. Is this true?


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What does it mean in Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image...? Why does it seem to sound plural?
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It's plural grammatically, and one reasonable interpretation would be that it refers to multiple gods. The only reason we question whether the meaning is plural are the statements in later parts of the Bible regarding there existing only one god. But the early books of the Bible don't seem to share this view, and thus, don't require us to explain why one god is referred to as "gods."
In addition to these references to "us" in the creation and expulsion stories, Genesis uses "us" later on, when it's time to confound the languages of folks in Babel, at Genesis 11:7: "Let us go down, and there confound their language."
Exodus also acknowledges the existence of other gods, although they're now rivals rather than allies:
Exodus 12:12: "And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment."
Exodus 18:11: "Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods."
Exodus 20:3: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a reference to YHWH (under any name) as the only god in Genesis, or Exodus, or even Numbers, for that matter. The first reference I pick up in the text to him being the one and only god is in Deuteronomy 4:35: "Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him."
When God says "Let Us make man in Our image", the next verse says that man is made in the image of God, thus the Us is God. But Us is a plural word, why not, "let me make man in my image?" The answer is because it is the Father or the Son speaking to each other. We know this because it is written...
Thus this world we live in was made through by the Father through the Son. The Holy Spirit was also present (see Genesis 1:2).
It sounds plural because grammatically, it is plural. Add the fact that the word used here for "God" is "Elohim" which is a plural form which might elsewhere be used to denote "gods." Some suggest that this is an example of the "plural of majesty" but that has no other biblical support. Others have suggested angels are involved, although there is no biblical support that angels took part in creating; that was all God. Wayne Grudem suggests that it is an indication of the Trinity.
I have been confused over this, especially when reading in conjunction with the next verse:
So we see the word "Elohim" which would in other contexts be translated "gods", we have "us", and then we have "he" and "his".
This issue is not only in Genesis 1:26.
See Genesis 3:22,
Genesis 11:7,
and Isaiah 6:8,
The often-asked question about the plurality of God is opposite to what the people in the time of Moses would have asked. The startling part to them was in His singularity. The ancient gods existed only because of their functions. The function was seen, and from this, the god was deduced. A god was regarded as plural - a god plus his function. (Rain was an entity as a part of the entity of the rain god.) The creative God, the God that maintains the universe is a plural, being God plus the plentitude of His might (and this accommodates Christ and the Holy Spirit) but God is different from all the other gods as He also has a being, a reality, outside of His function. This is what makes God unique.
It could be a reference to Elohim, the plural form of El or Eloah, referenced in Genesis 1:1 — "In the beginning, God (Elohim) created the heavens and the earth." An evangelical interpretation would be that the God has always existed as the Trinity, from the beginning as the Father, Son, and Spirit in a relationship with each other.


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5 Popular Safety Measures That Don't Make You Any Safer
#2. Breast Cancer Self-Examination
The most frequent cancer warning, just behind "always wear sunscreen," has to be the constant reminder for women to check their breasts for lumps. Until recently, doctors everywhere advised women to regularly rifle around their funbags (we held an office contest, and that won out as the "least mature phrasing possible") in search of cancer. This falls right into our readers' widely held belief that most human problems can be solved by the application of sufficient hands to boobs.
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Young women don't routinely receive mammograms, and the thinking was that the early notice provided by self-exams would save lives (and breasts). Then some scientists decided to actually test the benefits of medical boob-fondling (our No. 2 pick). In 2008, they published the results of two massive mammary studies encompassing a staggering 388,500 Russian and Chinese women between 30 and 66.
One group of women was not taught or urged to perform examinations. The other women received detailed training and regular refresher classes, which we're guessing were hosted in some sort of large sexodrome filled with pillows and dotted with open bars.
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After 10 years of intensive, slightly creepy research the scientists found ... no difference in cancer survival rates between the two groups. We know what you're thinking: Sure, self-exams don't make anyone safer, but they sure as hell can't hurt! They're probably good for your blood pressure or ... something.
You might think that, but you would be wrong. It turns out that the women who do self-examinations are almost twice as likely to get unnecessary biopsies. So basically, you're no less likely to die from cancer, but you're way more likely to have someone stick a knife in your chest. Up to you, ladies.
Most people try to avoid this.
#1. Gated Communities
Let's face it, cities can be terrifying. They are, after all, filled with people like us. The modern metropolis is a teeming hive of strung-out dope heads, rapists, home invaders and fine regional cuisine. There's only one solution to this problem that doesn't involve switching ZIP codes. If you've got the money, a gated community promises security and isolation from the skeeviest of your fellow Americans.
This is the closest that some wealthy folks will ever come to seeing a hobo.
About 11 percent of Americans in the West and 6.8 percent in the South live in gated developments. High membership dues and expensive housing keep the "riff-raff" from moving in next door, while high walls and a security guard keep them from wandering in off the street, drinking the wrong types of alcohol and leering at women joggers. Sure, it's a little paranoid. But at least people in gated communities gain comfort and tangible safety benefits without hurting anyone else. It's like a guard dog you don't have to feed or replace every 10 years.
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Unfortunately, science is finding that the chief benefits of gated-community living are illusory at best. Preliminary research finds that "crimes such as burglary drop in the first year or so of gating, but then rise back to the level of the areas outside." The president of research for the National Association of Home Builders found studies indicating "no differences" in crime between gated and non-gated communities. The City of Miami noted that "the long-term crime rate is at best only marginally altered."
The key is to realize how minimal the security actually is. You're not living behind a Simpsons movie-style dome, protected by your own personal military. You've got a gate, maybe with an electronic code, or maybe with a security guard making barely over minimum wage. In both cases, you can't keep everyone out -- friends, family members, landscaping crews, pizza delivery drivers, all have to be able to pass in and out. The system will always have to allow a certain number of strangers in. Meanwhile, the burglars in the area know that those houses behind the gates have all the nicest stuff -- you're announcing that just by living there -- and that it's not exactly freaking Fort Knox.
That security guard will answer your call as soon as he finishes his joint.
And if something bad does happen in your gated paradise? Rescue workers often have issues getting past unmanned security gates and maneuvering bulky emergency vehicles through them. This increases ambulance response time, which can kill you just as dead as the PCP-raging vandals lying in wait outside your fancy walls.
"...and that's why we have to make sure all the mail boxes are the same color."
As it turns out, gated communities aren't even good for the illusion of security. Multiple studies in the U.S. and the U.K. show that "residents do not necessarily experience a reduced sense of fear after moving to a gated development. In fact, people can become more fearful and anxious about leaving the safety of their community." Fences have that effect. First you like them, then you feel naked without them.
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