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Henry Cavill and his brother Charlie in Los Angeles this weekend

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14 Incredible British propaganda posters from World War Two

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Today, 8 May, marks the 70th anniversary of VE Day, the day that World War Two officially came to an end on the European continent.

First celebrated in 1945 as a public holiday, the day recognises the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War Two of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces, bringing an end to the war that had ravaged Europe for the previous six years.

A two-minute silence will be held at London's Cenotaph at 3pm to commemorate the moment that Winston Churchill announced that the war was over, as well as remembrance ceremonies, street parties and concerts across the country.

Here's our round-up of the occasionally humorous, sad, politically incorrect, inspiring and downright brilliant pieces of British propaganda design from the war years.

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Watch Japanese Volcano Mount Shindake Erupt

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/japanese-volcano-mount-shindake-erupts-first-time-year

Located in the center of the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu, Mount Shindake erupted before 10am local time, reported the Japan Meteorological Agency. The volcano was seen emitting large plumes of smoke about 9,000 meters (29,527 feet) into the sky.

Once the volcano?s eruptions were confirmed, the agency raised its eruption-alert level from three to its highest level of five.

All 147 residents that live on the island have been advised to evacuate as pyroclastic flows, dense currents of rock fragments and hot gases from the volcano have begun to reach the island?s northwest shore.

Kuchinoerabu island is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the main island of Kyushu. Transport from Kuchinoerabu island is limited as it can only be reached by a once-daily ferry from Yakushima island, which is 19 kilometers (12 miles) to the east of Kuchinoerabu.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for an emergency response team and a self-defense force team to be dispatched to the island. Abe also told local authorities to fully protect the islanders and assist them in reaching safety.

The island itself is an active volcano with the last eruption occurring in August of last year.

 
Here's What the Final Tower at the World Trade Center Will Look Like

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Hot on the heels of the 1 World Trade Center observatory's grand opening, developers at the massive Lower Manhattan complex have finally revealed the design of the last major World Trade Center tower -- and while it's different from past renderings, it's quite impressive.

The skyscraper, or 2 World Trade Center, will be the second-tallest building at the site at1,340ft and over 80 stories, just below the 1,776ft-tall 1 World Trade Center. The asymmetrical tower is expected to be completed by 2021 -- the 20th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 -- and will be located at 200 Greenwich St. (just to the northeast of the 9/11 memorial), according to a report by Curbed. Already, 21st Century Fox and News Corp have signed on to take over the lower half of the building, where it will locate 5,000 employees under Rupert Murdoch's empire.

Silverstein Properties, the developer, released a video all about the new tower. Check it out -- or just wait six more years until it's finally done.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/06/09/the_final_world_trade_center_towers_new_design_revealed.php
 
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Kaneda?s AKIRA Motorcycle Made of LEGO

It?s one of the most iconic images in all of sci-fi and anime, separately or together ? the red motorcycle driven by Shotaro Kaneda, the lead character and all-around teenage punk badass of Katsuhiro Otomo?s landmark manga and anime Akira. It?s perhaps the vehicle that best represents the whole ethos of Cyberpunk, with it?s sleek and space-age design and sponsorship decals not unlike a stock car. But, as amazing as it is as piece of anime awesomeness, nothing is truly cool until it?s been immortalized in LEGO.

The YouTube channel known as Sariel?s LEGO Technic Den, which creates lots of great electronic and radio-controlled LEGO pieces, has brought the Kaneda motorcycle to life in a size reserved for hamsters (a theme of their videos). With the help of LEGO aficionados the Avro Bros? detailed books and stickers, the folks at Sariel?s have made a mostly-articulate remote-operated motorbike that actually drives and turns.

The whole thing is about 14.5 inches long, and since that?s pretty small, relatively, the bike can?t be self-contained and hence has to have two cables coming out the back to connect to the remote. So, while it?s not a fully autonomous and free-roaming bike (the controller has to walk a few paces behind it), it still captures the attitude of the street gang leader who drove it in the movie.

Akira has certainly been in the zeitgeist of late, with reports about a writer hired for a live-action film. But, the movie?s never really far from our thoughts; Player Piano?s version of ?Kaneda?s Theme? kept us thinking about the explosion, and a fan-made live-action trailer kept the dream alive too.


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Annette Kellerman promoting a woman?s right to wear a fitted, one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was later arrested for indecency.
 
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The One Wheel Motorcycle, which could reach a top speed of 93 mph (1931).
 
Grease-You're The One That I Want(Death Metal)

 
Jamie Lee Curtis Cosplays Vega from STREET FIGHTER II

Jamie Lee Curtis is one of Hollywood?s best known scream queens, and she may also be the coolest mom ever!

Curtis and her family went to the EVO Fighting Game Championships in Las Vegas this weekend as a graduation present for her son, Thomas. And to remain incognito at EVO, Curtis cosplayed as Vega from Street Fighter II!

In fact, Curtis? entire family got in on the cosplay act. Her husband, Christopher Guest, suited up as Dr. Bosconovitch from the Tekken fighting game series, while Thomas put on DeeJay?s costume from Super Street Fight IV, and his sister, Annie, came as Makto from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike!

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Man From U.N.C.L.E. costar Luca Calvani with Henry Cavill in London

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It's 165 Goddamn Degrees in Iran

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As if you needed further evidence life in Iran sucks (you don't), the ruling regime's not the only force oppressing people in the Middle Eastern nation. Try temperatures that feel like 165 degrees.

While Americans have been busy prepping their A/C units for the West Coast heatwave that's setting records around 110 degrees, Iranians have had to deal with a special brand of hell. The residents of Bandar Mahshahr have seen air temperatures of 115 degrees, and a dew point of a whopping 90 degrees, combining for a heat index of 165. That's all meteorological speak to say: It's really goddamn hot.

I have no idea what 165 degrees feels like. I've been in 115-degree heat, and water boils at 212 degrees. Anything approaching "hot enough to literally boil your blood" sounds like a no-go. And it's not like this is a one-day deal for Bandar Mahshahr -- it felt like 159 degrees on Thursday. As noted by the Washington Post, the area's location near the Persian Gulf, where water temperatures sit in the 90s, lead to unbearably high humidity and heat when winds blow off the water.

Photos of the ongoing heatwave were impossible to find on social media, because, well, have you ever heard of social media frenzies in Iran reaching Westerners? Exactly. But meteorologists have had plenty of material to work with.

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Gold's Gym turns 50

http://www.flexonline.com/general-news/golds-gym-turns-50?fb

IN 1965, GOLD?S GYM OPENED ITS DOORS AND LAUNCHED THE MODERN FITNESS MOVEMENT THAT BROUGHT EXERCISE AND HEALTHY LIVING INTO THE GLOBAL CONSCIENCE

Fifty years ago, in a single concrete room, 30 feet by 100 feet just of the Venice Beach shoreline, modern fitness was born. It was an unassuming spot, but packed inside were massive men pumping iron and curling, benching, and deadlifting thousands of pounds. This was the frst Gold?s Gym, and it would create a revolution that continues today.


THE DARK AGES

Prior to 1965, American health was in decline. Less than a decade prior, President John F. Kennedy published an article titled ?The Soft American? in Sports Illustrated, in which he argued that ?such softness on the part of individual citizens can help to strip and destroy the vitality of a nation...the stamina and strength which the defense of liberty requires are not the product of a few weeks? basic training or a month?s conditioning.? More than one-third of children in the U.S. had failed one of five strength tests administered in school, compared with a 1% failure rate for European students. The government was so concerned that it encouraged comic strips to address fitness. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz produced Snoopy?s Daily Dozen, a booklet featuring Snoopy, Charlie, Linus, and the gang going through a series of exercises. The small percentage of American adults who did exercise favored quick and easy workouts like 5BX, which stood for Five Basic Exercises and didn?t require additional equipment or do much to build strength. Real strength training was all but unknown.

A GYM IS BORN

Enter Joe Gold. The merchant marine with an impressive physique who scored roles as an extra in films including The Ten Commandments and Around the World in 80 Days had an idea. He worked out at Muscle Beach just south of the Santa Monica Pier?where young men like the original ?fitness superhero? Jack LaLanne and Steve Reeves, who played Hercules, lifted crude weights, performed feats of strength like handstands and other gymnastic moves, and showed off their hulking physiques to tourists moseying down the boardwalk. But Gold knew they needed an indoor spot so they could work out at all hours and train with better equipment. He purchased an abandoned lot on Pacific Avenue and erected a simple building out of cinder blocks, and thus Gold?s Gym was born.

?Joe was a hardcore trainer, a competitive bodybuilder back in the day,? FLEX Chief Content Director Shawn Perine says. ?He was about building hardcore muscle, about giving guys the chance to create the ultimate physique.?

Gold saw an opportunity?at the time there were just three gyms for the 7 million people in the Los Angeles area?but he also understood how much he could improve the bodybuilding community. The weights and benches of the day were poorly made, uneven with faulty cables and uncomfortable grips. Gold knew what the lifters liked because, after all, he was one of them, and so he set about creating equipment to suit their needs. He turned his two-car garage into a machine shop of sorts, developing benches, pulley systems, unique handles, and other homemade

devices that were superior to anything on the market. ?When you felt his dumbbells, there was a magic there,? remembers Eddie Giuliani, a bodybuilder from New York who moved to California to train at Gold?s Gym and would win his height class in Mr. America and Mr. World.

Bodybuilders flocked to Gold?s Gym. While other gyms tried to mimic the cutting-edge technology, none had the brilliance of Joe Gold. Dave Draper, who was known as the Blond Bomber, and who was literally and figuratively the biggest muscle star of the early 1960s, joined Gold?s along with the other top stars of the day. Tourists stood outside the gym, peering in with hopes of catching a glimpse of the men inside. People who couldn?t get to the beachside spot could still see Draper and others on the cover of bodybuilding magazines that were slowly taking off. ?That was the ?me? generation, and all of a sudden people were discovering themselves, and what better way to discover yourself than to see how ripped you can make your muscles?? Perine says. Magazines like Muscle Builder featured interviews and tips from the big names at Gold?s, turning them into household names.

The rapid explosion of fitness and bodybuilding spurred the growth of scientific breakthroughs and interest from the medical field. The fledgling International Society of Sport Psychology held its first World Congress in 1965, and the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity came into being in 1967. In 1971, State University of New York at Stony Brook chemistry professor Paul C. Lauterbur developed the concept that he would use to create the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine and the first issue of the Journal of Sports Medicine came off the presses a year later.

Then, of course, came Arnold. Joe Weider, creator of the Mr. Olympia competition and publisher of magazines like Muscle & Fitness and FLEX, brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to train at Gold?s Gym in 1968, and the Austrian almost immediately became an icon. He would work out with Draper, Giuliani, and his good friend and roommate, Franco Columbu, harder, faster, and longer than anyone else, smiling throughout the effort, impressing the young men who wanted to be him. ?Arnold was everywhere,? his frequent training partner Ric Drasin says. ?He made it the Mecca.?

Throughout the 1970s, the bodybuilding movement continued to gain traction, and Arnold?s gang led the way. Yellow Gold?s Gym T-shirts featuring the ubiquitous Gold?s Gym logo?designed by Drasin spontaneously on a cocktail napkin?were everywhere on the boardwalk, the beach, the bars around town, and beyond. To wear one was to signal that you were a part of something larger. Gold?s Gym hosted the 1977 Mr. America contest. That same year the movie Pumping Iron, featuring Schwarzenegger competing in the 1975 Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia competitions, vaulted the bodybuilders to another level of celebrity. Soon Hollywood stars like Clint Eastwood were dropping in for sessions as well as sports stars like Muhammad Ali. Bodybuilding had solidified itself in mainstream culture. ?I remember watching TV in the ?80s, and every other commercial had a bodybuilder,? Perine says. ?More likely than not, that bodybuilder was recruited by somebody calling the front desk of Gold?s Gym Venice.?

By 1980, Gold?s Gym had been sold off by Gold and passed through a few owners, landing in the hands of Pete Grymkowski, Tim Kimber, and Ed Connors. The trio, nicknamed the Three Horseman, set about spreading the core message of the brand to the nation. They saw that bodybuilding and physical fitness had staying power, less of a trend and more of a basic fact of the aging baby boomer lifestyle. Consider that in 1982 movie star Jane Fonda would take a break from her busy schedule to shoot Jane Fonda?s Workout, launching her successful second career. Soon after in 1985 the American Council on Exercise was formed to create a standard national certification process for aerobic instructors. Fitness was no longer a tourist attraction on Venice Beach, it was a part of everyday American life. And Gold?s Gym became a cornerstone of pop culture. Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in Rocky, wore a Gold?s Gym T-shirt on a Saturday Night Live promo spot; Wesley Snipes donned a Gold?s Gym tank top in White Men Can?t Jump; and Will Smith flashed a Gold?s Gym VIP pass in Men in Black. All types of celebrities from rock stars like Janet Jackson to Olympic gold medalists like Greg Louganis and?the most famous of all? basketball legend Michael Jordan were showing up at Gold?s Gym.

Connors opened the first licensed Gold?s Gym in San Francisco in 1980 and dedicated himself to launching new outposts. Jerry McCall, a nationally competitive bodybuilder who bought into the San Jose franchise in 1982, remembers the old days. ?Ed really spawned the licensing program,? the former president of the Gold?s Gym Franchisee Association says. ?He had a knack for meeting people, like somebody in Rochester or Madison, a hardcore kind of guy who had a small club and wanted to expand.? By 1981, there were 5,000 singular health clubs nationwide, and many entrepreneurs saw the great value in aligning their little gyms with Gold?s Gym, which was rapidly becoming the dominant force in American fitness.

The number of Gold?s Gyms across the country skyrocketed. The group took the brand international in 1985 when a branch opened in Canada. The iconic T-shirts started selling in retail outlets worldwide in 1987, the perfect complement to an increasing global focus on fitness, born at that unassuming gym in Venice. By 1993, Gold?s Gym had 1 million members, and that?s when it became clear that it wasn?t just bringing a fitness revolution, it was creating a legacy by helping hundreds of thousands of people realize their potential through fitness. In 1996 it expanded to Europe and Asia, changing perceptions across the globe. ?When we first opened, the word fitness didn?t exist in the Russian language,? says Paul J. Kuebler, one of the three principal people to open the first Gold?s Gym in Moscow?s Leningrad Prospekt in 1996. ?We had to explain to Russians what fitness was for. In the past, they only worked out to improve at the sports they played.?

While Gold?s Gym became known as the Mecca of Bodybuilding, the brand also pioneered the latest fitness innovations, making sure their members, who came first just as they had when Joe Gold set about creating a gym for his peers, stayed at the forefront. Connors built a group exercise room in the San Jose gym in 1981, well before the trend took off nationally. The Gold?s Gym trainers got ideas from everywhere, increasing the use of kettlebells and periodization after seeing the success these exercises and philosophies had in Russia. The cardio age came into being in 1984 with the StairMaster StepMill, and Gold?s Gym locations nationwide featured the machines. Lori Lowell, the national group fitness director for Gold?s Gym International between 1999 and 2009, talked about how classes created the right atmosphere. ?There?s a power in group fitness,? she says. ?It wasn?t just about coming in and lifting weights. We were delivering a great social environment as well as a great workout.? The success is obvious, with gyms offering everything from yoga, Pilates, and core training to cardio kickboxing. Other classes like TRX and Zumba gained popularity in the coming decades and were quickly adopted by Gold?s Gym locations around the world. This past year, Gold?s Gym partnered with Microsoft to bring fitness into the next era by featuring its branded workouts on the Microsoft Band, the most cutting-edge smartband available.

THE LEGACY CONTINUES

The Gold?s Gym legacy has left its mark on America?s attitude toward fitness, even though at the beginning, it was never a guarantee. ?More than 45 years ago we all together went on a crusade to fight for health and fitness for resistance training, bodybuilding, and weightlifting,? Schwarzenegger said at a recent celebration. ?At that time, everyone laughed. Now 45 years later, there isn?t one hotel in the world that doesn?t have a fitness room. Our crusade has been extremely successful.? In the next 50 years, Gold?s Gym is poised to remain a leading force in the world of fitness. Joe Gold, his group of ambitious bodybuilders, and the stewards of the Gold?s Gym legacy who came in the half century after truly did create a modern revolution. - FLEX
 
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http://fortune.com/2015/08/03/women-office-freezing-cold/

Science explains why women are always freezing at work

Women who are always freezing at work finally know who to blame: Men.

In a new report published Monday in Nature, researchers found that most office building temperatures are set using a decades-old formula for a ?thermal comfort model? that takes into account factors like air temperature, air speed, and clothing insulation. That?s converted into a seven-point scale and compared to the Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied, which gauges how many people are likely to feel uncomfortably cool or warm.

The problem is that one variable in that formula is inherently sexist. Turns out that the resting metabolic rate, or the measure of how fast we generate heat, that?s used in the calculation is based on a 40-year-old man weighing about 154 pounds. But women, who make up half of today?s workforce, typically have slower metabolic rates because they?re on average smaller and have more body fat. Thus, the study says the current ?thermal comfort model? may overestimate women?s resting heat production by up to 35%.

Women?s physiology and wardrobe selection are also factors. Joost van Hoof, a building physicist at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, was not involved in the study, but provided this memorable commentary to The New York Times:


??Many men, they wear suits and ties, and women tend to dress sometimes with cleavage. The cleavage is closer to the core of the body, so the temperature difference between the air temperature and the body temperature there is higher when it?s cold. I wouldn?t overestimate the effect of cleavage, but it?s there.?

What?s there to do about the problem? The study offers this solution: change the temperature setting formula. Accounting for women?s metabolic rates and body tissue insulation, female workers might prefer a 75 degree Fahrenheit office, the Times says. Typical office temperatures now hover around 70 degrees.
 
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