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|"Ex Machina" #45 on sale this week
Writer Brian K. Vaughan told us what he was doing on the very first page of the very first issue of âEx Machina.â Or at least his leading überman, Mitchell Hundred, did:
âThis is the story of my four years in office, from the beginning of 2002 through the godforsaken 2005. It may look like a comic, but itâs really a tragedy.â
Now with only six issues left in the critically acclaimed series, no one knows how itâs all going to end -- just that it ainât going to be pretty.
Launched in 2004 by WildStorm, the politically charged âEx Machinaâ tells the story of the fictional mayor of New York City, Mitchell Hundred, as his life unfolds in a post-9/11 world. Hundred also just so happens to be Americaâs first and only superhero â the Great Machine â after he gains the ability to communicate with all machines during a freak accident that occurs while heâs working as a civil engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge.
In âEx Machinaâ #44, Vaughan (âY: The Last Manâ) and artist Tony Harris (âStarmanâ) started to pull back the curtain a bit and revealed an all-important white box that not only has something to do with Hundredâs secret origin, but may very well have turned âVillage Voiceâ journalist Suzanne Padilla into the Great Machineâs greatest enemy ever.
With the seriesâ final arc kicking off this week with the release of âEx Machinaâ #45, CBR News checked in with BKV.
CBR: With the release of âEx Machinaâ #44, so ends the penultimate arc of your award-winning series. Pacing-wise, youâve said from the outset this journey was going to run 50 issues, so have you arrived exactly where you wanted to be with one arc and six issues left to go?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN: Yeah, Iâd say weâre exactly where we want to be. This is my favorite part of an ongoing series, when readers get to see that we werenât making it all up as we went along, that even the crap that may have once seemed innocuous or irrelevant is somehow important to our larger story.
I was actually grateful the WGA writersâ strike happened when it did, because it allowed me the luxury of working on nothing but the final issues of âY: The Last Manâ for several months, which I think really helped us stick the landing on that series. Similarly, the last issues of âEx Machinaâ have been getting 100 percent of my attention these days, and as proud as I was of the ending of âY,â I think âEx Machinaâ might have the best finale of anything Iâve ever helped create. Certainly the ballsiest.
|Pages from "Ex Machina" #45
Anyway, the whole creative team is very much on the same page as we come into the home stretch. On top of penciling every insanely detailed page of the last forty-five issues, Tony Harris also recently started inking himself, and the book has never looked better, thanks in no small part to JD Mettler, the most underrated colorist in comics. All three of us felt like #44 was one of our strongest to date, so we were heartened to hear how excited people were by it. Feels like everything weâve been building towards over the last few years is coming to a head at exactly the right time.
How tightly have you had these last 12 issues plotted out and for how long?
I always knew exactly how the story was going to end, but not exactly how weâd reach that destination. I first pitched this concept back in 2001, but because I knew it would cover the new mayorâs first term through 2005, I wanted to leave myself the freedom to incorporate any major real-world events that might happen in New York City during that time, like the 2003 blackout. But yeah, by early 2006, Tony, JD and I knew everything we needed to know to line up our ducks in a row.
You really started to pull back the curtain in the last arc, âRing Out The Old,â specifically with the return of some once prominent characters like Suzanne Padilla and of course, with the reveal of all-powerful white box. In developing this massive epic have you kept an âEx Machinaâ bible where you jot down specific teases and reveals so you make sure you pay them all off before #50?
Definitely. Because of how often we jump around chronologically, I had to write a detailed timeline that spelled out Mitchell Hundredâs career from the minute he got his powers all the way up to the upcoming final panel of our last issue, which is incidentally going to be a double-sized extravaganza. And man, Tonyâs last few covers are breathtaking.
What can you tell us about the White Box? Using the term âPandoraâsâ seems almost too kind.
Well, like the Great Machineâs jetpack, the White Box is something that came to Mitchell Hundred in a dream after the accident that gave him his proverbial strange powers. He claims it was built to help keep New York safe, but weâre now learning it may have also helped Hundred steal the election. Either way, an accident with the White Box has now given Suzanne Padilla the power to control people just like Hundred can control machines, turning this journalist into our politicianâs greatest enemy, which anyone who remembers Watergate could have probably seen coming.
What was Zellerâs purpose when he first visited Hundred and will he play a major role as things wind down towards the conclusion?
|Pages from "Ex Machina" #45
Zellerâs purpose was exactly what he stated it was when he first appeared. He came to warn Mayor Hundred of âthe dangers of immigration.â Itâs just taken Mitchell a few years to learn exactly what that meant.
Will Connie Georges be revisited or at least what she said to Hundred before her death when she called him a âcarpenterâ and told him to âgo spread the word?â
As a matter of fact, weâll be hearing more about Ms. Georges in the pages of âEx Machinaâ#45, on sale this week, plug, plug.
Do we find out who Hundred is speaking to in the first page of âEx Machinaâ #1 when he says, âIt may look like a comic, but itâs really a tragedy?â
You definitely will. And hopefully, itâll be the last person youâd ever expect him to be talking to, but also the one who makes the absolute most sense.
Do things get worse for Bradbury before they get better? And what about Miss Padilla? I guess while weâre on the subject, does this end well for anybody?
Iâll just say that we werenât kidding around when we had Mitchell open the story by just coming out and announcing that itâs a tragedy. I think our fiftieth issue will be a wildly satisfying conclusion to the story, but anyone whoâs looking for a happy ending is probably reading the wrong book.
Hundredâs parents are named Thomas and Martha. Tie that in with his superhuman gifts as The Great Machine⦠is Hundred the BKV version of an amalgamated Dark Knight and the Man of Steel?
Mitchell Hundred was weaned on DC Comics as a kid, and early in the series we learned that his security detailâs codename for him is the rather unimaginative âSuperman,â while reporter Suzanne Padilla says she always thought of him as more of a Batman kinda guy. Weâll learn exactly which kind of protagonist Mitchell is before the series is over, but it has nothing to do with superpowers.
For me, âEx Machinaâ has always been a story about the way Americans of all political persuasions have sought leaders who are also quote-unquote âheroes,â especially after September 11. But is there really such a thing as a true hero, or is that just a fiction we unfairly impose on people?
When âY: The Last Manâ ended, you left some mysteries for the reader to solve or at least consider on their own. Will âEx Machinaâ end in a similar fashion or will we know exactly what created The Great Machine when this is all said and done?
Oh, youâll definitely know who or what gave Mitchell his powers before the series is over. As a matter of fact, if you go back and carefully reread the entire series, youâll see that most of the answers have already been revealed.
Weâll save any ambiguity for the politics, as Mitchell continues to learn that neither the right nor the left seems to have the answers to our most complicated problems. Weâve already explored everything from gay marriage to domestic terrorism, so Iâll let people guess which hot-button issue weâll finally be tackling in our last storyline, which DC/WildStorm somehow let us title âPro-Life.â
Youâve recently announced the sad news that youâve left âLost.â Can you share any details on what youâre working on now and if not, when you might let us know?
Thanks for being sad about me leaving âLost,â but itâs with zero false humility I say that the show was usually awesome in spite of my meager presence on an otherwise incredible writing staff, not because of it. Iâm sure next season is going to be amazing, but as I told showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, Iâm haunted by the fact that they had both already helped create classic shows by the time they were my age, so it felt like it was time for me to get out there and try to make some more original stuff of my own.
As for exactly what Iâve been working on when I havenât been writing âEx Machina,â I should be able to reveal more around the time our final issue comes out in a few months. Thereâs one new film thing that will definitely be the biggest project of my career if I can somehow pull it off, but Iâm most excited about the new creator-owned comics I started putting together shortly after âY: The Last Manâ wrapped. It always takes me a while to develop new books, but I think these are some of the best ideas Iâve ever had and definitely some of the best collaborators Iâve ever had the privilege of working with, so I hope theyâll be worth the wait.
âEx Machinaâ #45 hits stands this week from WildStorm.


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Handing a major victory to DC Comics, a California federal judge has ruled the heirs of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster surrendered the ability to reclaim their 50-percent interest in the property in a 1992 agreement with the publisher.
While the decision likely will be appealed, for now it means DC and parent company Warner Bros. can use the Man of Steel any way they wish beyond Oct. 26, 2013, when the Shuster estate would have recaptured its copyright to the first Superman story in 1938's Action Comics #1. However, the companies must account for any profits earned from the property with the family of co-creator Jerry Siegel, which reclaimed its share in 2008 through a provision of the U.S. Copyright Act (the scope of that decision is on appeal). Had the Shuster estate succeeded, DC and Warner Bros. eventually would have been unable to use many of the character's defining aspects, including his secret identity, his origin, certain elements of his costume and powers (super-strength and super-speed), and Lois Lane — barring a new agreement with the families of the two creators, naturally.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright granted DC's motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of whether the Shuster estate's 2003 copyright-termination notice was invalidated by a 20-year-old agreement with the late artist's sister Jean Peavy. The publisher had argued the family relinquished all claims to the Man of Steel in 1992 in exchange for "more than $600,000 and other benefits," including payment of Shuster's debts following his death earlier that year and a $25,000 annual pension for Peavy.


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Lil Debbie at the Fine Line, 3/1/14
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Lil Debbie
Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Urban Dictionary defines ratchet as "a diva, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that has reason so believe she is every man's eye candy. Unfortunately, she's wrong." In LL Cool J's song "Ratchet," he uses to word as a name for a gold digger. The internet is bursting with memes and photos of women in various forms of tasteless undress going about their daily lives -- for example, buying cigarettes and a 40 oz. at the convenience store in underwear and slippers.
It appears game-changing rapper Lil Debbie would prefer to take the word back and spin it into a compliment denoting ferocity and uniqueness, as she demonstrated this weekend at the Fine Line. Clad in a sweatsuit patterned by the Great Seal's Pyramid and Eye, Lil Debbie entered the building to confirm what Beyonce suggested last year by her infamous "ratchet" hoop earring Instagram photo: being ratchet isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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Local rap trio Kids Like Us opened the evening with the slick rapping of Sam Wayne and Eli Fhima, and vocal prowess of singer Lizzie Fontaine. The crowd seemed eager to get turnt up as Wayne and Fhima jumped together across the stage, gesturing wildly while spitting rhymes. Fontaine surprised concertgoers by delivering a beautiful acapella rendition of Etta James' "At Last." Her voice is strong and soulful, and added a pleasant texture to their more hard hitting tracks as well.
Photos by Anna Gulbrandsen
Turquoise Jeep took to the stage next. If you have the internet, then you've probably stumbled across this crew of singers, rappers, choreographers, video directors and producers before. Fronted primarily by Yung Humma and Flynt Flossy, they transcended from YouTube to the tangible world via their viral music video for "Lemme Smang It" back in 2010. The Jeep's choreographed bumping and grinding quickly had women screaming and spilling their drinks in excitement. "There's a lot of Jeep riders in Minnesota tonight!" they noted.
Turquoise Jeep's set was an assault of songs dripping with comical sexuality, such as "Fried or Fertilized," in which they asked "How you like your eggs? Fried or fertilized?" and "Treat Me Like a Pirate," featuring the refrain "Treat me like a pirate, and give me that booty." Stools were pulled onto the stage, and four lucky ladies were treated with Jeep-ridin' lap dances. Humma and Flossy had a seemingly endless cache of moves; their performance was extremely fun to watch and incomparable to other hip hop shows in recent memory. They own what they do and they do it well.
The crowd was restless in anticipation of Lil Debbie. Drunk girls crowded the area to the left of the stage, teetering in sky-high heels as they posed for selfies. Finally, the purple grape cake queen herself darted from the green room onto the stage, accompanied by a posse of serious-faced dudes. Everyone started pushing towards the stage, screaming. The place was about to get turnt up.
Photos by Anna Gulbrandsen
Lil Debbie first invited a crew of "bad bitches" to dance behind her on stage, then blazed through "2 Cups" and into "Squirt," one of her tracks with RiFF RaFF. "It's meant to be nasty," she explained, removing her sweatshirt to reveal her 100-pound frame drowning in a giant white T-shirt, her face illuminated by giant gold hoop earrings. The sweet scent of marijuana smoke traveled through the air as she launched into "Michelle Obama" proclaiming, "That's my bitch! I love Michelle Obama!"
After rapping through a couple more of her internet hits, Lil Debbie announced that she would be performing two new songs that no one had heard before, from her upcoming California's Sweetheart album. She claimed that the songs were very different from most of her earlier work, but promised that they would still be ratchet.
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The first song, "Pretty Motherfucker," delivered on this promise. The lyrics were full of boasts like "I'm movin' weight and I ain't talkin' fitness." Lil Debbie's rhymes on this track seemed more fluid and hard hitting than some of her earlier work, flowing easily forth to a slick beat. The song itself was a proclamation. The audience twerked as if it were their last twerk, and the "bad bitches" on stage appeared to be having the time of their lives. "Y'all give me life!" Lil Debbie shouted. "I am thirsty. You are the water."
"Slow Down" was the second new song, again full of slick-tongued rapping and those cutesy little threatening rhymes that Lil Debbie spits so proficiently: "Bad bitch, troublemaker. Watch me kill it. Undertaker." If the rest of California's Sweetheart is anything like these two tracks, Lil Debbie may have a serious hit on her hands. Both were a crystal-clear indication of her evolution as a female rapper and proof that she continues to stay ahead of the game musically.
During the hit "Bake A Cake," the energy in the room seemed to reach a semi-dangerous level -- it was difficult to move through the crowd without getting grinded on or witnessing some vaguely disturbing form of dance debauchery. Still, Lil Debbie kept instructing the audience to "turn up!" She ended the set by repeating two of her favorite songs, "Gotta Ball" and "Ratchets," explaining that she loved the songs so much that she was just going to do them again. Its hard not to be okay with anything Lil Debbie does, really. Things got even crazier the second time around.
Photos by Anna Gulbrandsen
It seemed that most of the crowd had shown up mainly to see Lil Debbie. By the time Dirt Nasty came out, about half of the audience had already escaped into the night. "I got my DJ straight outta rehab!" he shouted. "He has a cocaine addiction." Then he invited a couple girls on stage, took a swig from a bottle of Jameson, and proceeded to intersperse songs with subjects like raping animals with strange, misogynistic comments to the girls onstage with him: "Life is beautiful when we got two girls sucking each other's dick."
The girls didn't seem to mind, though. They gyrated wildly on each other in abandon, occasionally lifting their shirts to flash the audience and sticking their tongues in each other's mouths. Some people were screaming in appreciation, others in horror. For "I Can't Dance," Dirt Nasty's song with LMFAO, he pulled an orange ski mask over his face and proceeded to prove that he actually can't dance, while the girls danced on him. His beats were catchy, maintaining the night's theme of turnt up rap/dance music. Moving into "Too Hot," he rapped "I'm on cocaine! Like it was 1980!" and rolled around the stage.
Was it funny? Dirt Nasty is a former comedian. However, his crude "jokes" seemed more like insults, and in his drunken state he was extremely confrontational. "My name's Dirt Nasty. I'm an alcoholic," he said in between songs. "I'm a fucking drug addict." Not sure how the DJ was feeling about all of this, considering his recent rehab stint. "Where's the underaged hoes at?" Dirt Nasty asked. "They're out there. God damn right. I'm drunk as a motherfuck." Interesting. Maybe there is a point where "good ratchet" becomes "bad ratchet" once again.
Critic's bias: I am pretty down for ignorant rap, inappropriate behavior, and pushing boundaries, but I am still trying to reconcile with Dirt Nasty's performance. On the other hand, Lil Debbie totally killed it, so I'm trying to stay focused on how much I love her as opposed to how gross Dirt Nasty made me feel. I didn't think it was funny but apparently his fans have a different sense of humor than I do.
The crowd: Same people I saw at the RiFF RaFF show last December.
Overheard in the crowd: Girl: "Lil Debbie is my lesbian crush. She is so fucking hot, dude." Her roommate: "She could be passed out drunk in her room and I could put on "2 Cups" and she would wake up and come out dancing."
"There's 8 Dirt Nasty's at the bar in Anoka right now looking for underaged girls."
Set Lists:
Kids Like Us
Sleep Paralysis
Under the Cherry
Jump Rope
Midnight M
Lil Debbie
2 Cups
Gotta Ball
I Do It
Pretty Motherfucker
Slow Down
Bake A Cake
Gotta Ball
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U.S. House Votes to Cut $61 Billion in Government Spending
WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives early Saturday approved a bill that would make unprecedented federal budget cuts, delivering on Republican campaign promises and setting the stage for a battle with the White House that could bring the government to a halt.
The House vote came just before dawn Saturday, capping an extraordinary week-long debate that featured hundreds of amendments and produced a $1 trillion bill that cut more than $61 billion from current spending levels.
The bill was approved on a partisan vote of 235-189, dramatizing the deep chasm between the parties as the legislation goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where the president's allies are poised to block such cuts. According to House Appropriations Committee records, it would be the biggest one-shot cut in discretionary spending in history.
Both parties are girding for an intense round of brinksmanship leading up to a crucial March 4 budget deadline, when a temporary government-wide funding bill runs out. If no compromise has been reached by then, another short-term measure will be needed-—or the government would likely shut down.
The bill approved by the House is likely to be substantially rewritten before becoming law, but its approval by the House is nonetheless a party-defining moment for the GOP.
The 87-member freshman class helped forge a bill that looked more like the root-and-branch change sought by the tea party than the half-a-loaf politics of Republican pragmatists who often write appropriations bills.
It cut deeper than House GOP leaders initially wanted. It overrode many Republicans' desire to protect the Pentagon. It sought to block the nation's new health-care law, new federal regulations of the Internet and proposed climate-change curbs, essentially using the budget process to target key elements of the Obama administration's agenda. The final product heightened the drama gripping Washington as Congress lurches toward the March 4 deadline.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said after the House vote that the bill was just a first step. "We will not stop here in our efforts to cut spending, not when we're broke and Washington's spending binge is making it harder to create jobs,'' he said.
Democrats portrayed the bill as form of ideological extremism that is indifferent to the nation's economic woes. "The Republican spending bill destroys jobs and their reaction is, 'so be it,' " said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, quoting a line Mr. Boehner used about the potential impact of the bill. "Democrats have a different message: 'show us the jobs.' "
The stark clash of federal budget priorities echoes the fiscal crises facing state capitals around the country, most recently seen in the street demonstrations and a legislative standoff in Wisconsin.
And a much larger budget challenge in Washington is looming: The spending bill that Congress is battling over represents only one-third of the federal budget. Lawmakers haven't yet begun to tackle the larger pressures of reining in permanent programs such as Medicare and Social Security that account for the lion's share of the budget.
The bill is the opening shot in a battle over spending and debt that is likely to consume Congress for the rest of the year. It reflects the new power of the tea-party movement and the 87 Republican House freshmen, who are determined to push spending cuts. In the end, no Democrats voted for the bill. Three Republicans voted against it--Reps. Jeff Flake of Arizona, John Campbell of California and Walter Jones of North Carolina—on the grounds that it didn't cut enough.
The House debate was an experiment of sorts by Mr. Boehner, who took power saying he wanted to run a more open chamber and allow input from rank-and-file members. The result has been a week-long debate on the spending measure that included several late-night sessions and hundreds of amendments.
Some amendments bore little direct relationship to the spending bill, as members seized the opportunity to make favorite points. As a result, the bill became a broad Republican statement on the Obama agenda. The amendments ranged from repeated efforts to prevent implementation of the new health-care law to several measures to clip the regulatory wings of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Language was attached scrapping seven "czar" advisory positions in the White House and Treasury Department. Funding would also be cut to the Federal Communications Commission, preventing it from implementing new "network neutrality" rules governing the flow of traffic over the Internet.
Republicans blocked attempts by Democrats to boost funding at the Securities Exchange Commission for implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation overhaul. A measure that would have increased the budget of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was also defeated.
Throughout the debate, coalitions and alliances shifted, suggesting the new Congress would behave in unpredictable ways. Earlier in the week, freshman Republicans teamed up with liberal Democrats to cut Pentagon spending. Republicans splintered over how deeply to cut, as some party members joined Democrats to defeat an amendment that would have dismantled the National Labor Relations Board.
Among the most notable votes was the defeat of a proposal by conservatives to cut another $22 billion in additional spending, which failed Friday as 92 Republicans joined all Democrats to reject the amendment in a 147-281 vote.
Amid the tumult, there is increasing uncertainty about how Republican leaders will navigate the high-stakes spending and debt fights in the coming weeks. In previous years, Republican and Democratic leaders would negotiate deals, then enforce them on their rank-and-file members.
But Republicans leaders are showing little inclination, or perhaps ability, to enforce party unity on the large group of restless freshmen and other conservatives who feel empowered by last year's elections.
The two parties used the debate to begin shaping their narratives about the 112th Congress and how it has performed so far. Republicans say they are keeping their promises to voters by blocking the Obama agenda and cutting spending in unprecedented ways.
Democrats say the Republican lawmakers are adopting extreme positions, slashing government in ways that will cost jobs and that go far beyond what voters signaled they wanted last November.
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XVI. The Theatre in Europe and the U.S. Between the Wars
Between 1915 and 1940, concepts such as dadaism and surrealism played on the belief that nothing in the world makes sense. Expressionism--a related concept--can be defined as a distortion of line, shape, and color as if we are seeing things through the protagonist's consciousness. A play which shows the aspects of expressionism was August Strindberg's The Dream Play. Another play which exhibits expressionism's hard-to-define characteristics is Spring Awakenings by Frank Wedekind.
In Germany Ernst Toller was well-known for plays like Man in the Masses. Another writer was Georg Kaiser, who wrote Morn to Midnight, and Gas I and Gas II. One of the period's most popular designers was Leopold Jessner, internationally famous for his invention of the Jessnertreppen Steps. His imaginative steps used different flights of stairs and platforms and formed a major composition element in his productions.
In the United States, major advances were made in playwrighting, with Eugene O'Neill leading the pack as the first internationally known American playwright. His 25 full-length plays--including A Long Day's Journey into Night, The Hairy Ape, and Desire Under the Elms--had compelling characters, proved to be a challenge for their actors, and cemented O'Neill's well-respected theatrical status. Another American playwright who rivaled O'Neill was Elmer Rice, noteworthy for The Adding Machine.
France's Antonin Artaud wrote The Theatre and Its Double, which discussed oriental theatre techniques and the theatre of cruelty, a style of theatre that aggressively forced the audience to confront themselves.
The first theatrically produced publication, Detroit's Theatre Arts Magazine, premiered in 1916. The magazine encouraged interest in international theatre techniques as well as serving as the principal voice of new theatre ideas until 1948.
The Federal Theater Project, headed by Hallie Flannagan-Davis, was created to combat depression-era unemployment between World Wars I and II. The project's members produced about a thousand productions, 65 percent of which were free. The Theater Project is primarily remembered for creating The Living Newspaper, productions which dramatized current stories from newspapers, integrating factual data with dramatic methods.
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The Georgian Bay Cottage treads lightly on the land, with a "long-shed" construction featuring a large sliding door and pull-down bug screen, a translucent corrugated-fiberglass roof, and exposed studs and ties. Photo by Leo Mieles.
A small prefab cabin in Norway is offering an alternative view on the concept of luxury. When Oslo-based architect Marianne Borge was approached in 2004 by a client who wanted an actual cabin rather than a second home, she was instantly inspired by the challenge of working on a smaller scale. Photos courtesy Marianne Borge.
On a four-acre site on Salt Spring Island, just southwest of Vancouver, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects crafted a cabin—modest in size yet bold in design—on the site where another cottage once stood. Photo by Tom Bies.
At the mouth of a fjord on the Fosen peninsula in Norway, form followed function to a small rocky outcrop called Vardehaugen. There, Fantastic Norway Architects constructed Cabin Vardehaugen atop the exposed, wind-whipped hill, taking its structural cues from the environment. Photo by Håkon Matre Aasarød.
A steeply sloped site in the Wisconsin forest, plus an equally steep budget, led architect Brian Johnsen to reinvent the archetypal cabin for a sturdy vacation home. Photo by Narayan Mahon.
A series of charred modern boxes, the home Petra Sattler-Smith and Klaus Mayer designed for Martin Buser and Kathy Chapoton, is organized around views of the Alaskan landscape. Photo by Kamil Bialous.
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What happens when you and your teenage son spend six months backpacking through Africa and the Middle East? Nothing—and everything
We'd wanted to get as far from California as possible, my son Levi and I. We found ourselves there early one Tuesday morning, in the desert village of Abri in northern Sudan.
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The temperature had already climbed close to 100 degrees. It felt cooler, though, under the big tree where we sat holding small glasses of Sudanese tea with a half-inch of sugar at the bottom of each cup, gazing over the dirt street.
Three women, their faces mostly covered by their head-to-toe thobe dresses, eyed us as they walked past. A donkey cart crossed carrying corrugated metal. I looked at my watch, irritated. We'd rushed to town, taking a wooden boat from the centuries-spanning ruins of Sai Island in the Nile to catch what we were told was the 9 a.m. bus north to Wadi Halfa, the last town before Egypt. "2:00" is what Mohammed at the bus office wrote on a scrap of paper, waving us to a bench with a gesture that said, "Wait."
We knew waiting. We were four months into a six-month overland journey through Africa and the Middle East that took us from Entebbe, Uganda, on the shores of Lake Victoria, all the way up to Istanbul. We had waited for ferries in Tanzania, for buses along desolate roads in northern Kenya and mountain villages in Ethiopia, for the overcrowded Toyota Land Cruisers that pass as buses through the desert between Somaliland and Djibouti.
But how to kill five hours in Abri, a village of about nine square blocks, several small restaurants and a market that's busy only on Mondays?
Our trip had begun a year earlier as a pipe dream. "Hey," I blurted to Levi as he grumbled over homework in our study in California. "How about I quit work and pull you out of school and we travel in Africa?"
We could indulge Levi's interest in history, I enthused, by tracing our roots to the first hominids in East Africa. We could follow early migration routes along the Great Rift Valley in Kenya and Tanzania; along the Nile, we could journey through some of the first sites of Western civilization.
"That would be cool," Levi said, in the tone of one who'd been privy to many other fruitless schemes. It was an insane notion. I'd be leaving my wife, depleting our savings, foregoing a half-year's salary. I would probably lose my position at The Wall Street Journal. We'd be blundering through scary-sounding countries we knew nothing about.
But somehow, the idea grew. Levi and I agreed we could use a jolt from our routines. I had a gnawing sense, at age 53, that my life was slipping away. I'd always fantasized about quitting work and traveling extensively with my family, but now my two eldest were in college. This was my last chance to share a crazy adventure with my 15-year-old, something I would surely not regret from my rocker.
My wife, Karen, encouraged me. Levi's high school guidance counselor set him up with an online curriculum. We refinanced our house. "My only concern," said my boss, "is that you might not want to come back."
Read Steve and Levi's dispatches from their trip
Indeed, the deeper we got into Africa, the more true that became. We watched lions eat zebras in the Serengeti, slept in the Islamic quarter of Mombasa, Kenya, and in tents in Ethiopian hills. We strolled in the white sands of eastern Zanzibar and swam in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast. We headed northeast from the salt flats of Djibouti one night, crammed into a Land Cruiser piled with luggage, sleeping briefly on straw mats in the dirt courtyard of a village of Afar tribespeople. We woke to the sound of children reading the Quran aloud outside a hut.
We had a route sketched mostly in my mind and the numbers of a few friends of friends. We almost never had a room booked. Maybe because of our half-baked plan, each day seemed more remarkable than the last. We developed a shorthand, the two of us: "Look," I'd say, and Levi would nod in a gesture that said, "I see and understand."
We traveled with backpacks and took public transportation to stay close to local life. Amazingly, we discovered that no matter how exotic the place, the language, the food, within three days, we were comfortable. That was especially surprising in Sudan, the most foreign place of all, a land of vast deserts, untrammeled pyramids and vibrant mosques.
American tourists don't much go to Sudan, which has a recent history of conflict, including a bloody, decades-long civil war. We had to register with police in most cities, and needed a permit to take pictures (none were allowed of bridges or poverty). We avoided the tense border with South Sudan. At the same time, it may have been the friendliest country we visited, with good roads and buses, hearty food and low prices.
We walked across the border from Ethiopia, the noon sun beating down on the squat concrete building where an officer gruffly motioned us to a bench. An hour later, we checked in with the police, who noted our presence in a ledger, and caught a minivan to the crossroads town of Al Qadarif. After sundown we left our $12 hotel room and found good baklava in the stores.
The heat got us moving the next morning, and we jammed into a boksi, a brightly-painted pickup fitted with benches, heading north to where we planned to rejoin the Nile and find traces of the upper reaches of the ancient Egyptian Empire. We spent the night in Wad Madani, on the Blue Nile, which flows from Ethiopia's Lake Tana to join the White Nile in the capital of Khartoum. We sat on the river bank with Sudanese families to watch the sunset, then walked streets that were illuminated by the glowing orange coals under curbside tea sellers' water pots. The smell of goat roasting at a food stall drew us for supper at a wooden table.
On Khartoum's outskirts, we mingled with hundreds of Sudanese visiting the Hamed al Nil mosque for Friday prayers by the Qadiriyah order of Sufi Muslims—"whirling dervishes" who dressed in green and red and danced themselves into a frenzy meant to bring them closer to Allah. Discovering we were from the U.S., an imam offered us tea. He wanted to discuss global relations and his love for the American people.
The encounter was typical in Sudan. "Where from?" we were asked again and again. "America." "Good! Welcome to Sudan." We were invited to tea in villages, at bus stops and on the streets of Khartoum. A taxi driver, seeing us sitting in front of the city's central mosque, insisted on tucking five-pound notes into our shirt pockets as a gift.
One night further down the Nile, we climbed sacred Jebel Barkal mountain to watch the sun set over ancient Nubian pyramids. Walking back to our hostel, we came upon hundreds of people dancing and singing in a pre-double-wedding ceremony. The father of the grooms—brothers to wed the next day—invited us to celebrate. With an ecstatic grin, an uncle shot a pistol toward the sky. A man nearby explained: "In Sudan, some men like to shoot when they're happy."
By the time we arrived in Abri, we felt at home being the lone foreigners.
With hours to kill, Levi and I walked to the café under the tree. The call to prayer issued from the mosque on the next block; three men in white robes and turbans walked past stucco storefronts painted garish pink and green with flourishes of Arabic lettering.
I beckoned the café owner to pay. He puffed his chest and in careful English announced: "Two. Sudanese. Pounds."
I bought two oranges from a fruit stand. We visited the village baker, who asked me to take pictures of him, as did a man on a bicycle trimmed with multicolored plastic. We took a side road to the bank of the Nile. Narrow wooden boats brought women from the golden sand dunes spilling into the river on the other side.
At the nearest restaurant, we gestured at the food another family was eating, a meal of goat, bean gruel and flatbread, to order. "When's the last time we saw silverware?" I asked Levi. He couldn't recall. The bread was our utensil.
We walked back to the river. It was 12:30. The temperature felt like it was approaching 110. Under the tree, we ordered more tea. The donkey cart passed with nothing on it.
I turned to Levi. "Look around us," I said. "It seems just normal now, right?"
He understood. Our months in Africa had been full of new adventures. But for sheer contrast to our regular lives, nothing compared to sitting under a tree in a town by the Nile where nothing was happening.
"Two. Sudanese. Pounds," the café owner said.
The air-conditioned bus came at about 3:45. It trundled out to the asphalt highway and on to Wadi Halfa, on the southern edge of Lake Nasser.
The next day, Levi and I spread our sleeping bags under the lifeboats on the overnight ferry to Aswan, Egypt. As the boat pulled out and the sun dropped to the horizon, we had the wistful feeling it was taking us closer to California.
School's Out for Summer (or Longer)
Taking your child on a monthslong trip isn't tough—with some expert advice
Let the kids own the trip. I asked Levi to decide whether we would go to Africa, then planned the route with him. Before an extended trip around Asia, Darleen Saunders of Sacramento, Calif., had her 14-year-old daughter plan the Singapore and Hong Kong legs. "Ownership...makes them a heck of a lot more involved and there's a lot less whine," she said.
Schools can be surprisingly supportive. When Matthew Winkler of Kent, Conn., decided to spend nine months skateboarding in all 50 states with his sixth-grade son, the school helped created a plan for studying English online and biology and math in textbooks. Levi's school let him finish sophomore year via the e-learning service Odysseyware.
Be safe, not paranoid. Consult State Department warnings, then actual travelers. We frequented online bulletin boards like Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree forum, where we found up-to-date accounts from locals and travelers. Had we not, we might have skipped regions like Somaliland, Iraqi Kurdistan and Sudan, three of the friendliest on our trip.
Think health beforehand, then relax. Before leaving, we visited an international travel clinic, where a nurse printed a list of the horrible diseases we might face. I got shots for everything from yellow fever to hepatitis; Levi needed three. On the road, we drank only bottled water but ate anything we liked in street stalls. We got violently ill once in six months, for 24 hours.
Don't let cost deter you. We budgeted for hostels and public transportation, occasionally splurging on hotels and safaris. Mr. Winkler used CouchSurfing for free lodging, and figures that his trip cost about $10,000.
Limit the technology. Levi and I mainly relied on a small computer and a cheap cellphone, for which I bought a mobile chip in each country.
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Ezra was comparable to Moshe, and would have given the Torah had Moshe not preceded him, so it is not unreasonable to say that his actions were legitimate. Anyway, it is also seen from a posuk in Yehoshua, in Yevomos 89b.
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Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-dependent pseudothrombocytopenia (PTCP) is the phenomenon of a false low platelet count reported by an automated haematology analyzer due to in vitro aggregation of platelets. This aggregation is due to the interaction between antibodies and EDTA-dependent crypt antigens on platelets. We observed a new born child whose mother was diagnosed with transient PTCP due to transplacental transmission of maternal immunoglobulin G antibodies during pregnancy. Conclusion: Although maternal–neonatal PTCP is rare, it is important to consider this phenomenon as a cause of trombocytopenia, as it can result in unnecessary diagnostic workup and treatment.
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MS Excel Spreadsheet - Pyrmont Population by Age
Population PyramidA population pyramid is a double bar graph used to show the structure of the population, typically showing the age/sex structure of the population. They look something like:
Source: http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/NEWGEOG/Africa/sud_pyra.gif
Open and EDIT the spreadsheet fileOpen the MS Excel file 'Pyrmont Population by Age'.
Edit the spreadsheet by inserting a duplicate copy of Column A 'Age Labels' between Columns B & C.
Your spreadsheet will now look like:
Create Bar ChartsSelect the data in the cell range A1:B86. You should have selected the 'Age Labels' and data for all the males in Pyrmont.
Then select the Chart icon .
Select the Bar Chart option and then click Next.
Click 'Next' again to get:
Tailor the Chart Title and Axis as required.
Select 'Next' then 'Finish' to insert the chart into the worksheet:
Repeat the exercise to produce a bar chart of the # Females in the population.
Use MS Paint & MS Word to create Population PyramidUse MS Word to create a table where the Population Pyramid can be constructed.
Use MS Paint to modify the charts to create the Population Pyramid shown below:
Pyrmont-Ultimo Chamber of Commerce
Resources for this activity include two detailed Community Profile master databases:
· 2001 Census data for the Sydney region
· 2001 Census data for the Pyrmont suburb
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5 Demonstrate basic spreadsheet skills as they create, work with and modify files
a) Use cell addresses to locate cells
b) Insert and format text, numbers and formulae in cells
c) Select a range of cells
d) Use basic mathematical operations (+, -, *, /, ^) to construct simple formulae
e) Construct formulae using absolute and relative cell references
f) Use basic functions (Sum, Average, Max, Min, Count)
g) Sort information according to desired criteria
h) Fill cell contents using commands (Fill Down, Fill Right)
i) Create appropriate charts based on spreadsheet data
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Bonnie Stewart
Bonnie M. Stewart (died April 1994 aged 79) was a professor of mathematics at Michigan State University from 1940 to 1980. In 1969, his book, Theory of Numbers, was published. In 1970 he published a book, Adventures among the toroids. A study of orientable polyhedra with regular faces, in which he discussed what are now called Stewart toroids. The book was handwritten in calligraphy with many formulas and illustrations.
For perspective on his contribution to geometry, we have Plato (ca. 400 BC), whose name is attached to the 5 Platonic solids. Then we have Archimedes (ca. 250 BC), whose name is attached to the 13 Archimedean solids. Then we have Norman Johnson, who enumerated the 92 Johnson solids in 1966. And then we have sextillions of the Stewart toroids, described in 1970. All of these polyhedra have regular polygons as faces. The first three categories are all convex, whereas Stewart toroids have polygonal-faced tunnels.
- "Bonnie Stewarts Hohlkörper", by Christoph Pöppe, Spektrumdirekt (website of the German edition of Scientific American). English translation: [1]
- B. M. Stewart, Adventures Among the Toroids (1970) This 5"x13" edition was self-published by the author (printed by The John Henry Company) and has no ISBN.
- B. M. Stewart, Adventures Among the Toroids, Revised Second Edition (1980) 11"x8.5". ISBN 0-686-11936-3, converted much later to ISBN 978-0-686-11936-4 [2]
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Debian developers from around the world gathered in Finland to exchange ideas and have a good time at this year's Debian Developer's Conference.
The 5th annual Debian Developer's Conference (DebConf) was a great success. Almost 300 Debian developers, maintainers, and enthusiasts gathered in Epsoo, Finland, at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)campus, to exchange ideas, share experiences, discuss important issues, and have a great time just being together. The core of the conference was the talks, both formal presentations and informal "Birds Of a Feather" chats on subjects of common interest. Topics included the future of Debian, cooperation with other Debian-based projects, tutorials for developers and maintainers, and presentations on Debian subpro-jects.
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| xXNaruto38Xx chapter 1 . 1/18/2012
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"Postconflict reconstruction" has become the foreign policy issue du jour in Washington. Multiple think-tank studies, a new State Department office, and no fewer than ten proposed congressional bills all tackle the subject. This flurry of activity to rectify a long-ignored deficiency is a welcome development: recent U.S.-led endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated that the planning, financing, coordination, and execution of U.S. programs for rebuilding war-torn states are woefully inadequate.
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I have been given a character table and I need to find from the table the centre of each character. I dont know how to do this. if someone could please explain how i can find the centre by looking at the character table.
Let $G$ be some finite group and $\text{irr}(G)$ the set of irreducible characters of $G$. For $\chi\in\text{irr}(G)$ define $\mathbf{Z}(\chi)=\left\{g\in G:|\chi(g)|=\chi(1)\right\}$ (called the center of the character). Then, it's a common fact that
So, if you are given a character table, then for each row you can look at the entries for which the modulus of that entry matches with the first entry of that row (assuming you are writing character tables with $\{1\}$ corresponding to the first column), and take the union over the conjugacy classes those entries sit below, call this union $Z_k$ if $k$ is the row we are in. Then, the above theorem says that $\mathbf{Z}(G)=Z_1\cap\cdots\cap Z_n$ if you have $n$ rows.
For proofs of the above statements you can see my blog post here, or for a more comprehensive source you can see Isaac's Character Theory of Finite Groups.
EDIT: Thankfully Yemon Choi has pointed out that you were just looking how to obtain the center of the CHARACTER from the character table, and not the center of the group. This is implicitly stated in the second paragraph of the above. Namely, to find $\mathbf{Z}(\chi)$, locate the row corresponding to $\chi$, and then take the union of the conjugacy classes lying above the row entries whose modulus equals $\chi(1)$.


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Transmit beamforming and receive combining are simple methods for exploiting the significant diversity that is available in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. Unfortunately, optimal performance requires either complete channel knowledge or knowledge of the optimal beamforming vector; both are hard to realize. In this article, a quantized maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) beamforming technique is proposed where the receiver only sends the label of the best beamforming vector in a predetermined codebook to the transmitter. By using the distribution of the optimal beamforming vector in independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading matrix channels, the codebook design problem is solved and related to the problem of Grassmannian line packing. The proposed design criterion is flexible enough to allow for side constraints on the codebook vectors. Bounds on the codebook size are derived to guarantee full diversity order. Results on the density of Grassmannian line packings are derived and used to develop bounds on the codebook size given a capacity or SNR loss. Monte Carlo simulations are presented that compare the probability of error for different quantization strategies.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Jury selection has begun in the case of a Florida priest accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his church.
The Rev. Francis Guinan has pleaded not guilty. He is accused of stealing $488,000 from St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church in Delray Beach to fund a lavish lifestyle. Authorities say it could be one of the biggest embezzlement cases to hit the U.S. Catholic Church.
Another priest accused of skimming money from the church pleaded guilty last month.
Guinan's trial began Tuesday in West Palm Beach. His attorney says his client did nothing wrong. He says the 66-year-old didn't steal anything, that most of the money was used to make cash payments to church employees.