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I needed to switch things up this week, so you'll get Five Eagles numbers that matter on Tuesday.
And if you missed it from Sunday, I posted some final thoughts on the Birds' front-office shakeup.
Meanwhile, here's a roundup of what the national media are saying about the Eagles:
SI.com's Peter King thinks last week's Joe Banner move made sense:
I think the Eagles' changes last week -- the rise in influence of GM Howie Roseman, the consolidation of power to coach Andy Reid, the decline of president Joe Banner -- was a pretty easy decision. Roseman, 36, was the ideal man to handle football operations for the Eagles. Don Smolenski, 45, was the ideal person to handle the business operations for the Eagles. Why ideal? Because Roseman and Smolenski have the jobs of their dreams, running the football and business side of a pro football team. Banner, the outgoing president, wanted to do more. He wants either to have final say of a professional team or own one. That wasn't going to happen in Philadelphia. There's no animosity here. Just a common-sense move by owner Jeff Lurie.
ESPN.com's Dan Graziano says Andy Reid is gaining power and on the hot seat at the same time:
The people running the Eagles do not believe they will flop or finish under .500, or that they'll have to make a tough decision about Reid. The Eagles are running their organization with a long-term perspective, and on the assumption that 2012 will be a good year in which they field a strong contender and continue to build on Reid's long record of success as a head coach. Assuming that happens, 2011 becomes easy to regard as an aberration, and the plan can proceed in the way it's being outlined for us all today.
Clark Judge of CBSSports.com buys the Eagles' story that Banner is just seeking a new challenge:
Let's get something straight: Joe Banner's departure as president of the Philadelphia Eagles was not forced, has nothing to do with the team's performance last season, has nothing to do with a power struggle and has nothing to do with conflict -- real or perceived -- with coach Andy Reid.
Nope, Joe Banner's departure is all about one thing: Joe Banner's ambition.
With Banner gone, Greg Bedard of The Boston Globe says the pressure's now on Reid:
It will also be interesting to see how the Eagles operate. Both Reid and Roseman are known for being friendly with players and agents. They're both personable and want to do right by the players. Banner served as the bad guy a lot of the time, and he understood that was his role. Somebody had to make sure the team was in the proper financial position to field a winner year after year. Banner did that. Now it's Reid's turn. And there won't be anyone else to take the blame.
Gary Horton of Scouts, Inc. has Jason Kelce tabbed as a breakout player in 2012:
He was a sixth-round pick in 2011 and started every game as a rookie but played like a veteran. His guru offensive line coach, Howard Mudd, developed longtime center Jeff Saturday at Indianapolis, and Kelce's skill set is similar. He doesn't have great size, but he is very savvy and he can get to the second level and block in space. Best of all, the coaches trust him to make the line calls and adjustments, which is a huge help to QB Michael Vick. He can become an anchor of a vastly improved unit.
Dan Pompei of the National Football Post says Michael Vick is doing the right things this offseason:
This is the first time Michael Vick has had an offseason as the Eagles starting quarterback, and he is determined to take advantage of it. Vick, according to those who know, has been first in, last out at the NovaCare Complex. After accounting for 18 turnovers in 13 games and enduring a disappointing season, Vick wants to make sure he is in prime physical shape and in prime mental shape and is working hard on both fronts.
ESPN.com's Ashley Fox has LeSean McCoy ranked as the best running back in the NFL:
The running back position has evolved. The best backs are multi-faceted. McCoy is versatile, reliable, young and coming off a season in which he set a franchise record with 20 touchdowns. Best of all for the Eagles, he just signed a five-year extension.
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JBoss.orgCommunity Documentation
Narayana JTA works in conjunction with Narayana. In addition to the documentation here, consult the Narayana documentation, which ships as part of Narayana and is also available on the Narayana website at http://www.narayana.io.
This manual uses several conventions to highlight certain words and phrases and draw attention to specific pieces of information.
In PDF and paper editions, this manual uses typefaces drawn from the Liberation Fonts set. The Liberation Fonts set is also used in HTML editions if the set is installed on your system. If not, alternative but equivalent typefaces are displayed. Note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later includes the Liberation Fonts set by default.
Four typographic conventions are used to call attention to specific words and phrases. These conventions, and the circumstances they apply to, are as follows.
Mono-spaced Bold
Used to highlight system input, including shell commands, file names and paths. Also used to highlight keycaps and key combinations. For example:
To see the contents of the file
my_next_bestselling_novelin your current working directory, enter the
cat my_next_bestselling_novelcommand at the shell prompt and press Enter to execute the command.
The above includes a file name, a shell command and a keycap, all presented in mono-spaced bold and all distinguishable thanks to context.
Key combinations can be distinguished from keycaps by the hyphen connecting each part of a key combination. For example:
Press Enter to execute the command.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to the first virtual terminal. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to return to your X-Windows session.
The first paragraph highlights the particular keycap to press. The second highlights two key combinations (each a set of three keycaps with each set pressed simultaneously).
If source code is discussed, class names, methods, functions, variable names and returned values mentioned within a paragraph will be presented as above, in
mono-spaced bold. For example:
File-related classes include
filesystemfor file systems,
filefor files, and
dirfor directories. Each class has its own associated set of permissions.
Proportional Bold
This denotes words or phrases encountered on a system, including application names; dialog box text; labeled buttons; check-box and radio button labels; menu titles and sub-menu titles. For example:
Choose Mouse Preferences. In the Buttons tab, click the Left-handed mouse check box and click to switch the primary mouse button from the left to the right (making the mouse suitable for use in the left hand).→ → from the main menu bar to launch
To insert a special character into a gedit file, choose → → from the main menu bar. Next, choose → from the Character Map menu bar, type the name of the character in the Search field and click . The character you sought will be highlighted in the Character Table. Double-click this highlighted character to place it in the Text to copy field and then click the button. Now switch back to your document and choose → from the gedit menu bar.
The above text includes application names; system-wide menu names and items; application-specific menu names; and buttons and text found within a GUI interface, all presented in proportional bold and all distinguishable by context.
Mono-spaced Bold Italic
Proportional Bold Italic
Whether mono-spaced bold or proportional bold, the addition of italics indicates replaceable or variable text. Italics denotes text you do not input literally or displayed text that changes depending on circumstance. For example:
To connect to a remote machine using ssh, type
sshat a shell prompt. If the remote machine is
example.comand your username on that machine is john, type
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com.
mount -o remountcommand remounts the named file system. For example, to remount the
/homefile system, the command is
mount -o remount /home.
To see the version of a currently installed package, use the
rpm -qcommand. It will return a result as follows:
Note the words in bold italics above — username, domain.name, file-system, package, version and release. Each word is a placeholder, either for text you enter when issuing a command or for text displayed by the system.
Aside from standard usage for presenting the title of a work, italics denotes the first use of a new and important term. For example:
Publican is a DocBook publishing system.
Terminal output and source code listings are set off visually from the surrounding text.
Output sent to a terminal is set in
mono-spaced roman and presented thus:
books Desktop documentation drafts mss photos stuff svn books_tests Desktop1 downloads images notes scripts svgs
Source-code listings are also set in
mono-spaced roman but add syntax highlighting as follows:
package org.jboss.book.jca.ex1;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
public class ExClient
public static void main(String args[])
throws Exception
InitialContext iniCtx = new InitialContext();
Object ref = iniCtx.lookup("EchoBean");
EchoHome home = (EchoHome) ref;
Echo echo = home.create();
System.out.println("Created Echo");
System.out.println("Echo.echo('Hello') = " + echo.echo("Hello"));
Finally, we use three visual styles to draw attention to information that might otherwise be overlooked.
Notes are tips, shortcuts or alternative approaches to the task at hand. Ignoring a note should have no negative consequences, but you might miss out on a trick that makes your life easier.
Important boxes detail things that are easily missed: configuration changes that only apply to the current session, or services that need restarting before an update will apply. Ignoring a box labeled 'Important' will not cause data loss but may cause irritation and frustration.
Warnings should not be ignored. Ignoring warnings will most likely cause data loss.
Apart from ensuring that the run-time system is executing normally, there is little continuous administration needed for the Narayana JTA software. Refer to Important Points for Administrators for some specific concerns.
Important Points for Administrators
The present implementation of the Narayana JTA system provides no security or protection for data. The objects stored in the Narayana JTA object store are (typically) owned by the user who ran the application that created them. The Object Store and Object Manager facilities make no attempt to enforce even the limited form of protection that Unix/Windows provides. There is no checking of user or group IDs on access to objects for either reading or writing.
Persistent objects created in the Object Store never go away unless the StateManager.destroy method is invoked on the object or some application program explicitly deletes them. This means that the Object Store gradually accumulates garbage (especially during application development and testing phases). At present we have no automated garbage collection facility. Further, we have not addressed the problem of dangling references. That is, a persistent object, A, may have stored a Uid for another persistent object, B, in its passive representation on disk. There is nothing to prevent an application from deleting B even though A still contains a reference to it. When A is next activated and attempts to access B, a run-time error will occur.
There is presently no support for version control of objects or database reconfiguration in the event of class structure changes. This is a complex research area that we have not addressed. At present, if you change the definition of a class of persistent objects, you are entirely responsible for ensuring that existing instances of the object in the Object Store are converted to the new representation. The Narayana JTA software can neither detect nor correct references to old object state by new operation versions or vice versa.
Object store management is critically important to the transaction service.
By default the transaction manager starts up in an active state such that new transactions can be created
immediately. If you wish to have more control over this it is possible to set the
CoordinatorEnvironmentBean.startDisabled configuration option to
YES and in
which case no transactions can be created until the transaction manager is enabled via a call to method
It is possible to stop the creation of new transactions at any time by calling method
TxControl.disable. Transactions that are currently executing will not be affected. By
default recovery will be allowed to continue and the transaction system will still be available to manage recovery
requests from other instances in a distributed environment. (See the Failure Recovery Guide for further
details). However, if you wish to disable recovery as well as remove any resources it maintains, then you can pass
true to method
TxControl.disable; the default is to use
If you wish to shut the system down completely then it may also be necessary to terminate the background transaction
reaper (see the Programmers Guide for information about what the reaper does.) In order to do this you may want to
first prevent the creation of new transactions (if you are not creating transactions with timeouts then this step is
not necessary) using method
TxControl.disable. Then you should call method
TransactionReaper.terminate. This method takes a Boolean parameter: if
true then the method will wait for the normal timeout periods associated with any transactions to
expire before terminating the transactions; if
false then transactions will be forced to
terminate (rollback or have their outcome set such that they can only ever rollback) immediately.
if you intent to restart the recovery manager later after having terminated it then you MUST use the
TransactionReapear.terminate method with asynchronous behavior set to
Within the transaction service installation, the object store is updated regularly whenever transactions are created, or when Transactional Objects for Java is used. In a failure-free environment, the only object states which should reside within the object store are those representing objects created with the Transactional Objects for Java API.
However, if failures occur, transaction logs may remain in the object store until crash recovery facilities have resolved the transactions they represent. As such it is very important that the contents of the object store are not deleted without due care and attention, as this will make it impossible to resolve in doubt transactions. In addition, if multiple users share the same object store it is important that they realize this and do not simply delete the contents of the object store assuming it is an exclusive resource.
Compile-time configuration information is available via class
com.arjuna.common.util.ConfigurationInfo. Runtime configuration is embodied in the various
classes where name refers to the
particular configuration category (see the configuration section of the user guide). These beans have
corresponding MBean interfaces and may be linked to JMX for remote
inspection of the configuration if desired.
The failure recovery subsystem of Narayana JTA will ensure that results of a transaction are applied consistently to
all resources affected by the transaction, even if any of the application processes or the machine hosting them
crash or lose network connectivity. In the case of machine (system) crash or network failure, the recovery will not
take place until the system or network are restored, but the original application does not need to be
restarted. Recovery responsibility is delegated to Section 5.1, "The Recovery Manager". Recovery after failure
requires that information about the transaction and the resources involved survives the failure and is accessible
afterward: this information is held in the
ActionStore, which is part of the
If the
ObjectStore is destroyed or modified, recovery may not be possible.
Until the recovery procedures are complete, resources affected by a transaction that was in progress at the time of
the failure may be inaccessible. For database resources, this may be reported as tables or rows held by "in-doubt
transactions". For TransactionalObjects for Java resources, an attempt to activate the
Transactional Object (as when trying to get a lock) will fail.
The failure recovery subsystem of Narayana JTA requires that the stand-alone Recovery Manager process be running for
ObjectStore (typically one for each node on the network that is running Narayana JTA
applications). The
RecoveryManager file is located in the arjunacore JAR file within the
package com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.RecoveryManager. To start the Recovery Manager issue the
following command:
java com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.RecoveryManager
If the
-test flag is used with the Recovery Manager then it will display a
Ready message when initialized, i.e.,
java com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.RecoveryManager -test
The RecoveryManager reads the properties defined in the
jbossts-properties.xml file.
A default version of
jbossts-properties.xml is supplied with the distribution. This can
be used without modification, except possibly the debug tracing fields, as shown in Section 5.3, "Output".
It is likely that installations will want to have some form of output from the RecoveryManager, to provide a record of what recovery activity has taken place. RecoveryManager uses the logging mechanism provided by jboss logging, which provides a high level interface that hides differences that exist between existing logging APIs such Jakarta log4j or JDK logging API.
The configuration of jboss logging depends on the underlying logging framework that is used, which is determined by the availability and ordering of alternatives on the classpath. Please consult the jboss logging documentation for details. Each log message has an associated log Level, that gives the importance and urgency of a log message. The set of possible Log Levels, in order of least severity, and highest verbosity, is:
Messages describing the start and the periodical behavior made by the RecoveryManager are output using the
INFO level. If other debug tracing is wanted, the finer debug or trace levels should be set
Setting the normal recovery messages to the
INFO level allows the RecoveryManager to produce a
moderate level of reporting. If nothing is going on, it just reports the entry into each module for each periodic
pass. To disable
INFO messages produced by the Recovery Manager, the logging level could be set
to the higher level of
ERROR, which means that the RecoveryManager will only produce
WARNING, or
FATAL messages.
The RecoveryManager scans the ObjectStore and other locations of information, looking for transactions and
resources that require, or may require recovery. The scans and recovery processing are performed by recovery
modules. These recovery modules are instances of classes that implement the
com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.RecoveryModule interface. Each module has
responsibility for a particular category of transaction or resource. The set of recovery modules used is
dynamically loaded, using properties found in the RecoveryManager property file.
The interface has two methods:
periodicWorkFirstPass and
periodicWorkSecondPass. At an interval defined by property
com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.periodicRecoveryPeriod, the RecoveryManager calls the first
pass method on each property, then waits for a brief period, defined by property
com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.recoveryBackoffPeriod. Next, it calls the second pass of each
module. Typically, in the first pass, the module scans the relevant part of the ObjectStore to find transactions
or resources that are in-doubt. An in-doubt transaction may be part of the way through the commitment process, for
instance. On the second pass, if any of the same items are still in-doubt, the original application process may
have crashed, and the item is a candidate for recovery.
An attempt by the RecoveryManager to recover a transaction that is still progressing in the original process is likely to break the consistency. Accordingly, the recovery modules use a mechanism, implemented in the com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.TransactionStatusManager package, to check to see if the original process is still alive, and if the transaction is still in progress. The RecoveryManager only proceeds with recovery if the original process has gone, or, if still alive, the transaction is completed. If a server process or machine crashes, but the transaction-initiating process survives, the transaction completes, usually generating a warning. Recovery of such a transaction is the responsibility of the RecoveryManager.
It is clearly important to set the interval periods appropriately. The total iteration time will be the sum of the periodicRecoveryPeriod and recoveryBackoffPeriod properties, and the length of time it takes to scan the stores and to attempt recovery of any in-doubt transactions found, for all the recovery modules. The recovery attempt time may include connection timeouts while trying to communicate with processes or machines that have crashed or are inaccessible. There are mechanisms in the recovery system to avoid trying to recover the same transaction indefinitely. The total iteration time affects how long a resource will remain inaccessible after a failure. – periodicRecoveryPeriod should be set accordingly. Its default is 120 seconds. The recoveryBackoffPeriod can be comparatively short, and defaults to 10 seconds. –Its purpose is mainly to reduce the number of transactions that are candidates for recovery and which thus require a call to the original process to see if they are still in progress.
In previous versions of Narayana JTA, there was no contact mechanism, and the back-off period needed to be long enough to avoid catching transactions in flight at all. From 3.0, there is no such risk.
Two recovery modules, implementations of the
com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.RecoveryModule interface, are supplied with
Narayana JTA. These modules support various aspects of transaction recovery, including JDBC
recovery. It is possible for advanced users to create their own recovery modules and register them with the
Recovery Manager. The recovery modules are registered with the RecoveryManager using
RecoveryEnvironmentBean.recoveryModuleClassNames. These will be invoked on each pass of the
periodic recovery in the sort-order of the property names – it is thus possible to predict the ordering, but a
failure in an application process might occur while a periodic recovery pass is in progress. The default Recovery
Extension settings are:
<entry key="RecoveryEnvironmentBean.recoveryModuleClassNames">
The operation of the recovery subsystem cause some entries to be made in the ObjectStore that are not removed in
normal progress. The RecoveryManager has a facility for scanning for these and removing items that are very
old. Scans and removals are performed by implementations of the
com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.ExpiryScanner interface. These implementations are
loaded by giving the class names as the value of a property
RecoveryEnvironmentBean.expiryScannerClassNames. The RecoveryManager calls the
method on each loaded Expiry Scanner implementation at an interval determined by the property
RecoveryEnvironmentBean.expiryScanInterval. This value is given in hours, and defaults to
12hours. An expiryScanInterval value of zero suppresses any expiry scanning. If the value
supplied is positive, the first scan is performed when RecoveryManager starts. If the value is negative, the first
scan is delayed until after the first interval, using the absolute value.
The kinds of item that are scanned for expiry are:
One TransactionStatusManager item is created by every application process that uses Narayana JTA. It contains the information that allows the RecoveryManager to determine if the process that initiated the transaction is still alive, and its status. The expiry time for these items is set by the property com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.transactionStatusManagerExpiryTime, expressed in hours. The default is 12, and 0 (zero) means never to expire.The expiry time should be greater than the lifetime of any single processes using Narayana JTA.
The Expiry Scanner properties for these are:
<entry key="RecoveryEnvironmentBean.expiryScannerClassNames">
This section covers the types and causes of errors and exceptions which may be thrown or reported during a transactional application.
Errors and Exceptions
The application has run out of memory, and has thrown an
exception. Narayana JTA has attempted to do some cleanup, by running the garbage
collector, before re-throwing the exception. This is probably a transient problem and retrying the invocation
should succeed.
An error has occurred, and the error is of such severity that that the transaction system must shut down. Prior to this error being thrown the transaction service ensures that all running transactions have rolled back. If an application catches this error, it should tidy up and exit. If further work is attempted, application consistency may be violated.
An error occurred while the transaction service attempted to use the object store. Further forward progress is not possible.
Object store warnings about access problems on states may occur during the normal execution of crash recovery. This is the result of multiple concurrent attempts to perform recovery on the same transaction. It can be safely ignored.
Two variants of the JTA implementation are accessible through the same interface. These are:
|Purely local JTA
Only non-distributed JTA transactions are executed. This is the only version available with the Narayana JTA distribution.
|Remote, CORBA-based JTA
Executes distributed JTA transactions. This functionality is provided by the JTS distribution and requires a supported CORBA ORB. Consult the JTS Installation and Administration Guide for more information.
Both of these implementations are fully compatible with the transactional JDBC driver.
Procedure 7.1. Selecting the local JTA implementation
Set the property
to value
Set the property
to value
These settings are the default values for the properties, so nothing needs to be changed to use the local implementation.


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Of the many influences that shaped the American concept of liberty, the first and most formative was faith. More than anything else, religion formed the backbone of colonial culture and defined its moral horizon.
This religious character was largely a product of the fact that many came to the New World in search of religious liberty—to freely practice and spread their faith.
As a whole, America's Founders were strongly religious. Thanksgiving proclamations, as official statements of the American president, underscore the Founders' faith. Some were more traditional, such as John Jay and John Witherspoon. Some were more skeptical of religious institutions and doctrines, such as Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.
But the vast majority of the Founders were firmly in the mainstream of religious belief. They understood God as having created man with an immortal soul, as actively involved in human affairs and as "the Supreme Judge of the world"—in the words of the Declaration of Independence.
The day after approving the First Amendment to the Constitution and its protections of religious liberty, Congress called upon the president to "recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God."
President George Washington responded by proclaiming Nov. 26, 1789 the first official Thanksgiving. He noted:
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly implore his protection and favor."
Even the deists among the Founders—and it is by no means the case that they were mostly deists, as some have claimed—held that God created the world and determined the rules of human action.
Wrote Paine:
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God."
In 1620, more than 150 years before Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, a small group of pilgrims granted land by King James arrived in what is now New England. They wrote out the Mayflower Compact creating their own political community "for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country." This was, in essence, a social contract to form a body politic for the sake of survival.
The Puritans came to America believing "their errand was not a mere scouting expedition: it was an essential maneuver in the drama of Christendom," writes Perry Miller, pre-eminent historian of the subject. "These Puritans did not flee to America; they went in order to work out that complete reformation which was not yet accomplished in England and Europe."
The British colonists were overwhelmingly Christian and overwhelmingly Protestant. Congregationalists dominated New England. New York had more Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed churches, along with the Church of England in lower counties. The South was largely Anglican, with some Presbyterian, Quaker and Baptist populations. The Baptists took a much more visible role, particularly in the Carolinas, in the mid-1700s.
During the early decades of the 18th century, the main churches grew at a rapid and astonishing rate, according to research by James Hutson of the Library of Congress. This growth was fueled in large part by the Great Awakening, the religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s, but it continued. Throughout the 1770s, some 70 percent to 80 percent of the population attended church on a regular basis.
One can speculate about the details of each Founder's faith. But we know the Founders as a whole took religious beliefs seriously and understood religion, Christianity in particular, was a necessary component of republican government.
That there are laws of God that exist prior to, outside of and above the laws of the state necessarily means the laws of the state are limited and controlled by a higher or transpolitical authority. Take the injunction in the Bible to "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Matthew 22:21). In other words, although man has responsibilities to legitimate government authority, the state must not negate or replace man's responsibilities to God.
The distinction demanded a space for other institutions—church and religious communities, families and tribes—to exist and flourish. The idea of human dignity, that we are created in the image of God, forms the theological underpinning of human nature and human equality—core principles of liberty.
The belief that all men are sinners is the theological equivalent of the commonsense observation that human beings are drawn to their passions and prone to be selfish. It also informs the political idea that no one is to be trusted with absolute power. At the same time, the idea that all are redeemable—that there is a divine spark in each person, as a young George Washington wrote in his childhood copybook—grounds the belief that all can govern themselves and are capable of justice and benevolence.
These concepts in turn became crucial to the beginnings of liberty in America and creation of conditions favoring a yearning not only for self-government but for limited constitutional government. And for all of this we can give thanks.
Note: Matthew Spalding is director of The Heritage Foundation's Kenneth B. Simon Center for American Studies. This post is excerpted from his new book, "We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future" (ISI).


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Bad Boys (UK - BD)
Marcus pretends to be Mike Lowwwrrey as he revists Bad Boys on Blu-ray Disc
$100 Million dollars worth of heroin has been stolen from the Miami police vault, causing internal affairs to come down hard on police captain Howard (Joe Pantoliano). He gets his two best detectives—Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith)— on the case to find out who was involved in this obvious inside job and get that heroin back.
Mike Lowrey asks a close friend, Max, to find out any information that might be happening on the street, and it's not long before she gets caught up in a bad situation and killed. With her best friend Julie (Téa Leoni) the only surviving witness to the whole affair, the Bad Boys have to protect her all while trying to track down the missing drugs and bring in Max's killer.
1995. Bad Boys came out in 1995! It's hard to believe that this thoroughbred action movie is fifteen years old (though the soundtrack, the fashion, the overall look and even the dancing flower on Marcus's desk confirms every step of the way what decade this was made in), but revisiting it here was an absolute joy. Now I know that Michael Bay gets a good kicking from critics and film fans alike, and I'm not saying I don't join in with the pitch fork waving from time to time (Man, Transformers 2 sucked), but there's no denying he's one of the best action directors around and Bad Boys is pretty much a perfect action movie in my mind.
For a start you can't ask for a better duo in the lead roles. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are a double act that just work wonders, and watching this movie again it's a credit to them both that not a single gag falls flat all these years later and I still find myself laughing out loud at their bickering and facial reactions to each other's comments. On top at that the supporting cast are brilliant. Joe Pantoliano is just the most clichéd angry police captain ever, but it works wonders (I could watch him miss basketball hoops all day), the two the other cops that they share a whole host of 'your mother' jokes with are a great grin inducing addition and the comedy within Marcus's family set up still makes me chuckle ('I need my quality time!').
Because of these solid foundations (all of which worked just as well in the sequel) everything else, no matter how typical (let's face it the bad guys in both the Bad Boys movies are as typical as they come) is acceptable because these criminals aren't only doing bad things that have to be stopped, but they are affecting our characters' lives indirectly and we want them to be happy. It's the Lethal Weapon way of doing things and frankly I eat this stuff up.
Now, to go back to Michael Bay. His direction for all of this is exactly what a good action movie needs. The man's frantic editing (I love playing the 'count the cuts' Michael Bay game, if it were a drinking game you'd be dead by the time the opening credits finished) totally over the top glossy visuals, his 'appreciation' of the female form (that's the nicest way I can put it) and his ability to sit you right in the heart of the action and them blow the hell out of everything on screen just fits like a glove here and even though he's obviously evolved a fair bit since this first Bad Boys movie (he now blows even more shit up) this first outing with the two Miami detectives is still one of the great action movies.
It's not perfect but I've gotta say Bad Boys has a pretty decent HD transfer upgrade. Those Miami skyline shots immediately pop and the orange hue looks great. The bright sun drenched exterior shots all look sharper and cleaner than previous releases and even though the interior shots get a little more grainy they still hold up well and make for the best presentation to Bad Boys I've seen on a home format.
Where the disc falls over is genuine detail. It offers up more than its DVD release, but finer details like skin texture and set dressing don't really shine like we've grown used to with a modern movie. Also colours are generally low key. They are not at all muted but they don't really pop either (unless it's the orange Miami skylines) and while they are more vibrant than the previous DVD release, I still felt they could be a little bolder.
I expected this catalogue title to suffer. I expected it to be one of those titles that are just thrown out on Blu-ray. However, I actually ended up pretty happy with the transfer with its bright, relatively clean visuals, good black levels and noticeably (even if it's not spectacularly) better detail and while I feel there could still be improvements, the step up from the DVD release is more than enough to warrant the upgrade.
Once again as this is a Michael Bay movie, it comes with certain expectations and one of those is a powerful audio track. Here the DTS-HD Master Audio track isn't consistent, but when it has something to show off it goes for it. Explosions, gunshots and anything that goes 'boom' kicks into the bass with a real oomph and every speaker has a layer to audio attack.
Dialogue is clear, though the levels can sometimes differ from scene to scene, and there's a nice selection of rear speaker moments to add to the surround sound experiences. Marcus's kids coming from a different room sounded realistic, a fly skipping through the rear speakers when they find the dead body in the house was heavy handed but enjoyable and throughout the Club Hell scene there's a lot going on in all in the channels, be it footsteps, music, or voices. It's an enjoyable track with plenty going on. The only thing letting it down is comparing it to modern audio tracks and unfortunately, despite its highlights it just doesn't quite hold up.
Sadly this is just a catalogue release so the majority of the previous DVD release extras have been ported over as opposed to anything new.
The Michael Bay commentary is surprisingly great. He talks about how hard it is to make a movie like this on a small budget (it's pretty impressive when you think that this was his first movie) and offers up a lot of insider stories about getting a movie made and working with everyone involved. For a solo effort it's a great track and well worth a listen.
Next up, 'Putting the Boom and Bang into Bad Boys' (23:54 SD) is a sort of making of but focuses heavy on prepping for and blowing stuff up. It's intercut with interviews and clips from the movie and generally shows off the joys of practical special effects and stunts with explosions.
There's a batch of music videos from the movie, Diana King's 'Shy Guy' (featuring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith), 69 Boyz's 'Five-o' and Warren G's 'So Many ways', and rounding up there's BD-Live, movieIQ and trailers for Legion, Bounty Hunter, Karate Kid (with Will Smith's kid) and Not the Messiah: He's a Very Naughty Boy.
Bad Boys is just a blast and for me it's still one of the best action movie out there (certainly one of the greatest of the nineties).
This catalogue release is slightly lacking when compared to modern releases but still managed to impress with the HD transfer and DTS-HD audio track and with the lion's share of the original DVD features ported over it's a fine way of upgrading a title for any hardcore Bad Boys fans out there. Now where's Bad Boys 2? That's the one I'm really keen to see in HD.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Bad Boys 2 is coming around the same time. Personally I found it ridiculously over long. It has 2-3 endings.
Bad Boys though I bloody love. It's Bay's best work and one of the best action films ever. I've got this on pre-order and cannot wait. It looks like the BD is what I was expecting. A solid upgrade but nothing outstanding.
Bad Boys though I bloody love. It's Bay's best work and one of the best action films ever. I've got this on pre-order and cannot wait. It looks like the BD is what I was expecting. A solid upgrade but nothing outstanding.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I think the second one takes the edge for me. I just adore how insanely over the top it is.
That's another reason I like it less. The bodies being thrown out of the moving car, is one step too far IMO. There's also nothing in the credits that mentions it rips of Police Story's shanty town car chase too.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
bradavon wrote: Bad Boys 2 is coming around the same time.
Not in the UK. It's not on Sony's release schedule for the foreseeable future.
Not in the UK. It's not on Sony's release schedule for the foreseeable future.
My mistake. I thought it was coming but it isn't in the USA either.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
BOO! I wanted that!!!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 7th June 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 German
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, German, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Extras: Commentary with director Michael Bay, Putting the Boom & Bang in the Bad Boys. Three music videos
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence,Téa Leoni
Genre: Action
Length: 118 minutes
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Rendezvous continues into weekend
On Friday, carving will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at all locations. Sponsor booths will continue to offer merchandise at the Udarbe Business Towers [Masonic Temple]. In addition, there will be horse-drawn carriage rides offered starting at the Ridgway Welcome Center from 1-3 p.m. (weather permitting, donation). At 8 p.m., there will be a pyrotechnic display in the field behind the Lazy River Canoe along the Clarion River.On Saturday, there will be carving throughout the day and the auction will begin at noon on Court Street. There is no time limit on the auction as it will run for the duration until it is completed. There will be horse-drawn carriage rides beginning at 10 a.m.-? at the Ridgway Welcome Center (weather permitting, donation).


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Millwall Goalkeeper football shirt 1994 - 1995
The Millwall shirt sponsor from 1994 to 1995 was Captain Morgan.
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1997-99 Millwall Goalkeeper Shirt
Condition: Excellent Size: Small Brand: Asics Details: Goalkeeper shirt as worn when Millwall finished 18th and 10th respectively in the Second Division and were knocked out in the second round of the 1997-98 League Cup, losing 9-2 on aggregate against Wimbledon. Also worn when Millwall made it to the final of the Football League Trophy, losing 1-0 against Wigan. Players: Crossley, Spink, Roberts
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Arts & Crafts: The Designs of William Morris
William Morris is considered the father of the Arts & Crafts movement, a style of design that looked to handicraft and traditional forms and techniques. While you may be familiar with his wallpaper designs, Morris' impact goes way beyond his patterns. A socialist, reformer, environmentalist and poet, Morris believed in the power of design to change the world. Click through the slideshow to see some of Morris' designs and how they expressed his ideas, and read below the jump for more about Morris' era and his philosophies.
Britain had been the pioneer of the first Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the mid-18th century, inventors began developing processes to power machines with steam. Britain was perfectly situated to lead industrialization. Not only was it rich in coal deposits, literally sitting on the fuel needed, but its sprawling empire in Africa, Asia and the Americas provided it with further resources and riches.
While the Industrial Revolution strengthened the British Empire and propelled its economy, William Morris was keenly aware of its drawbacks. Division of labor in factory production meant that workers performed mind-numbing, repetitive tasks their whole lives, beginning in childhood, for very low wages. Urbanization meant dreadful living conditions in crowded slums. And aesthetically, products of the industrial revolution were generally shoddily produced, cheap and unimaginative imitations of historical styles.
For Morris, the worst aspect of industrialization was how it alienated workers from the products of their labor. He longed for the Middle Ages, which he idealized as a time when workers experienced joy in their labors, when they were empowered under the guild system, and could design and produce their work from start to finish. Morris therefore also hated the products of the Industrial Revolution: cheap, unnecessary goods that essentially relegated workers to a kind of slavery.
Morris had first been inspired in college by the art historian John Ruskin, whose philosophy moved Morris to change his course of study and pursue social change through the arts. Morris grew to detest modern civilization, and he believed that reforming the mode of production and the products of the industrial age would in turn reform society. He yearned for the simple beauty of an idealized Middle Ages, when craftsmen worked alongside one another in collaboration.
After graduating from Oxford, Morris gathered his architect and artist friends and started his company, later known as Morris & Co. Morris believed that "you should have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." In pursuit of his goals, Morris' company produced decorative arts like furniture, tapestry and stained glass, with the various artists and craftsmen collaborating together to make things by hand, using traditional methods and materials.
Morris was not only interested in medieval European culture, but in traditional cultures in general, including Persia and the Islamic World. He looked to these pre-industrial cultures for a 'pure' and 'honest' aesthetic and sense of construction.
In the 1870s, Morris spent much of his time hand-lettering and illuminating new editions of classic texts like the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (image 14). He also translated and illustrated several Norse sagas, as well, after two journeys to Iceland to study the language and mythology of the traditional culture there. His love of making books was lifelong. In 1891, he founded the Kelmscott Press, which used traditional 15th-century techniques to publish slightly more mass-produced versions of the handmade manuscripts he had produced in the '70s (image 15).
During his lifetime, Morris was more influential as a writer than a designer, producing manifestos and original poetry. He was a dedicated socialist, and wrote passionately about the growing gap between rich and poor, which had been intensely accelerated by industrialization. He wanted to democratize the arts, to make good design available to all people, but ultimately his own furnishings — made painstakingly by hand using the best natural materials — were typically too expensive for anyone but the rich industrialists Morris hated. Despite this contradiction in his work, Morris' influence on design cannot be overstated. He not only established an Arts & Crafts aesthetic, but, more importantly, infused a sense of moral consciousness into the post-industrial design process, raising questions of workers' rights and environmental responsibility that we still grapple with today.
For more information on William Morris, I recommend The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design, a comprehensive and highly readable compilation of essays on Morris by leading historians. I also adore this short video that shows the incredible process Morris followed to create his famous wallpapers.
Images: 1 Wikimedia Commons; 2 Britannica.com; 3-7 The wonderful William Morris Fan Club blog; 8 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 9 Victoria & Albert Museum, London; 10 & 11 The Arts and Crafts Home; 12 The Met, the Victoria & Albert, and the Met, respectively; 13 Victoria & Albert Museum; 14 Artpassions.net; 15 Designingwithtype.com.


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We are pleased to announce the first ENSAR-ECOS Workshop on FUture Super-Heavy Element Strategy – FUSHE 2012.
Erbismühle – Weilrod, Germany - May 13th – 16th 2012
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Bringing Back Gingham
Recently I've seen gingham used in many modern and sophisticated ways. The colloquial quality of the pattern combined with sleek and/or luxurious elements can make — an otherwise serious — decor fun and playful.
Gingham has graduated to being the centerpiece of a room, like in David Mitchell's interior, from being relegated to home accessory use only. Designers are using it to add punchy flavor, in the form of pillows and lampshades. They are also placing the pattern on kitchen and bathroom floors as a contemporary homage to its traditional use in these rooms.
The most notable trailblazing gingham design is the famous Hästens mattress. It's an extremely expensive ($4000-$12,000) mattress in luxury hotels in Sweden, Denmark and Spain. It's made of all natural material and is covered with a trademark gingham pattern.
Images: 1. Design Crack 2. Style Decor and Simplified Bee 3. David Mitchell and Associates 4. Sleep Revolution 5. Solo Portfolio


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Asthma Action Plan
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Why use an asthma action plan?Using an action plan takes the guesswork out of treating asthma episodes. The action plan will outline how to manage your asthma without always going to the doctor's office or the hospital. Using an action plan created just for you may also help you maintain your activities without suffering an increase in asthma symptoms.
Following an asthma action plan can help prevent and reduce inflammation in the bronchial tubes. This can also help prevent permanent bronchial scarring called "lung re-modeling".
An asthma action plan helps to:
- Take the guesswork out of treating episodes by telling you what to do when you or your child has an asthma episode. Often, you can treat symptoms without going to the doctor's office or the hospital.
- Prevent or reduce the severity of episodes by letting you know what to watch for and how to treat the episode early.
- Control asthma symptoms so that you or your child continues to be active with fewer asthma problems
What is an asthma action plan?The action plan is based on zones of asthma care defined by your peak expiratory flow (PEF) rate and symptoms. A PEF is a way to measure how much air you can blow out of your lungs in one second. Measuring your own PEF every day will help you track how well you are doing.
Green means go. You are in the green zone of the asthma action plan if your peak expiratory flow rate is 80% to 100% of your personal best measurement. You want to be in the green zone every day. You should have no asthma symptoms when you are in the green zone.
Yellow means caution. You are in the yellow zone of the asthma action plan if your peak expiratory flow rate is 50% to 80% of your personal best measurement. Symptoms may not exist, may be mild to moderate, or may keep you from your usual activities or disturb your sleep. The yellow zone may mean that you are having an asthma episode or that your medicines need to be increased. The action plan should state what medications you need to take, how much to take, and when to take them. If you keep going into the yellow zone from the green zone, talk with your provider. Your regular medication may need to be changed.
Red means STOP. You are in the red zone of your asthma action plan if your peak expiratory flow rate is less than 50% of your personal best measurement. Your symptoms will be severe and you may have extreme shortness of breath and coughing or other symptoms that are specific only to you. If your symptoms and peak expiratory flow rate are in the red zone, seek medical help immediately. While you are seeking emergency help, follow your action plan and take your medications as directed. You may need emergency treatment, admission to a hospital, or to call 911.
See an example of an asthma action plan.
How to use an asthma action planHere is how you can get started using an asthma action plan.
1. Develop an asthma action plan with your provider. You and your doctor can develop an asthma action plan for you or your child. It can be based on peak expiratory flow rates and asthma symptoms. You need to let your provider know your personal preferences regarding asthma care. For instance, if you or your child is not comfortable measuring peak expiratory flow rates, you need to tell your provider and they can help you learn how.
2. Follow the asthma action plan. Following the action plan will give you confidence in your ability to handle asthma episodes. It helps take the guesswork out of asthma care. Recognizing and treating episodes early according to the action plan are important to good asthma control.
3. Watch for trends in symptoms. Take medication exactly as the asthma action plan says and continue to check your or your child's peak expiratory flow rate daily. Keep an asthma diary of daily symptoms, peak expiratory flow rates, and treatment. You also can write down questions you may have about treatment that you can ask your provider. An asthma diary makes you aware of changes in symptoms and how well treatment is working for you or your child.
4. Review the asthma action plan with your provider. Take the asthma action plan and the asthma diary with you when you visit your provider. Make sure you ask questions you have about the asthma plan or symptoms you or your child is having. Make sure you know how and when to contact your provider or go for asthma care. Let your provider know if parts of the plan are not helping asthma episodes. You also should let your provider know if you or your child is not able to follow the asthma action plan.
Where to go from hereShare this information with your provider, including a sample of the asthma action plan, and ask your provider to make an asthma action plan for you or your child. Your provider can access the Minnesota Department of Health's on-line version of the asthma action plan on their website.
Once an asthma action plan has been created for you or your child, you can follow the plan to manage you or your child's asthma.


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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Paris Librarian Look
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I like all those glasses, Carol--very sweet.ReplyDelete
Edible Lunettes! How clever.... I saw that look when I was there at market. As a matter of fact there is a gorgeous blonde pharmacist around the corner, she had that look with tourtise shell lunettes and added a grey cashmere scarf.....Maryanne ;)ReplyDelete
My girls look beautiful in their libarian looks:) Me...not so much:)ReplyDelete
I would adore the art store:)
Not so crazy about the glasses. I will take the Edible lunettes. :))ReplyDelete
I've had to wear glasses since I turned 5, so this post was of particular interest to me. Believe me or not, I managed to find a small store in my remote corner of American suburbia that sells European frames! Thank goodness! The owner is a former French student of mine, and her husband is Swedish. They go to Europe once a year and bring back the coolest frames, bless them! ;-) I was not even surprised when you pulled off the "edible glasses" at the end of your post. The blog is known as Paris Breakfast after all... ;-) Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
Yes, I'll take the edible lunettes any day of the week!ReplyDelete
You shall fit right in with your lunettes rouges.ReplyDelete
Torties in green,amber & brown ,cat eyes for the studious side & Amber,turquoise & copper swoopsy narrower rectangles for the arty side ( ie, the ones I have to use for close up work). I didn't have to have prescription glasses until I was 50, but I would buy those wild print Peepers cause they were fun when I started needing a little magnification for reading. I know teenagers who don't need glasses who get them for accessories, something I never would have done when I was 16!ReplyDelete
The librarian look always worked for Ozzie...I'd give him anything when he wore those glasses!ReplyDelete
hee hee Parisians sure love their geek glasses. A couple years ago me and some friends were bitching about how Parisian youth love to wear them, then we walked past a cafe and there was a woman wearing a pair...WITHOUT LENSES! Whats the point! She was itching her eyes balls threw the glasses so that was a big giveaway.ReplyDelete


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Smells good, clammy hands, phenomenal, the cat's meow; when he was in preschool, his best friend was winnie the pooh. He is an actor, singer, pianist, and just a wonderful person. Ali is dramatic and hysterical. His laugh can be heard miles away and anon creepers constantly want his....0__0. Everyone's kids should be named after Ali Hajihaidari.
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WELLESLEY, Mass. – Sophomore Hayden Cornwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) has been named the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference Player of the Week for baseball the league announced today. He hit .556 in a pair of games, belting a pair of doubles and a triple while driving in four runs.
Cornwell was instrumental in MIT's two wins last week. In the week's first game at Wesleyan (Conn.) he drove in runs in his first two trips to the plate and then tripled and scored a key insurance run in the seventh in the 7-5 triumph by the Engineers. In the dramatic come-from-behind win at Worcester State, his double in the ninth drove in the winning run and capped a three-run rally that led to a 4-3 victory.
Cornwell is the second MIT player to earn NEWMAC Player of the Week honors. He joins junior Creed Mangrum (Sandy, Utah) who was named to the honor in March.


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|Megan Wolfe makes her way around some of November's group shows here in San Francisco.
@111 Minna
November 5 - November 30, 2009
111 Minna st.
San Francisco, CA 94105
November's flown by, and with the holiday, this month feels even shorter. There were a slew of great shows this month though, and this report is quick recap of just two of them.
Ryan Coffey
Ryan Coffey
Matt Gonzalez. Mixed media collage on paper.
Matt Gonzalez. Really liked these.
Julianne from Gallery Heist checks out the work.
Dusty Genard
"Paper Tigers"
@Fivepoints Arthouse
November 5 - November 28, 2009
72 Tehama
San Francisco, CA 94105
If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend Fivepoints Arthouse (which is just around the corner from 111 Minna). The space has a distinct small-town feel, live bands, great art, plus a downstairs bar.
Kevin Taylor
Brett Amory scoping out the work.
Kevin Taylor
Closeup. Nicely detailed work.
Bert Bergen
Bert Bergen
Kevin Taylor
Bert Bergen
Lafe Eaves
Lafe Eaves
After checking out the show, Brett Amory took over one of Fivepoints' drum sets and rocked out (pretty awesome; didn't know the guy could play like this):
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Implications of various densities and distributions-
This article explains how in some different locations, their are very poor urban areas, that do not have grocery stores. This is called a Food Desert, which are located all across America, especially in Nevada.
This article shows how not all distributions and densities are organized, but they always do represent and depend on something, and in this case, it is Food Deserts and poor urban areas.
Seth Dixon's curator insight, September 30, 2013 9:29 PM
If you haven't discoverd "Strange Maps," consider this your online introduction to a great blog that explores some of the more interesting cartographic and geospatial forms of representation and themes that you never thought you would see mapped out. This particular post is about map tattoos (with many pictures). For more, see Strange Maps.
Tony Hall's curator insight, February 14, 2013 2:31 AM
Could be really good to look at when discussing sustainability.
Seth Dixon's comment, August 13, 2012 2:28 PM
The graphic was not connected to the article. It was linked on a PBS facebook page and I linked the juxtaposition of the graphic and the NY Times article. Here is the FB page: https://www.facebook.com/EarthTheOperatorsManual.Page Personally, an entire century as a baseline of comparison does not feel like cherrypicking data. True the Earth is an incredibly complex system that controlling for all variables is in essence impossible, but denying that the system has changed seems foolish to me. Why has the system changed? I'm okay with that being a reasonable debate worthy of academics.
Lisa Fonseca's comment, September 4, 2012 7:06 PM
Interesting website to show the accuracy of where someone will actually end up by digging a hole. While on the website I dug a hole in Portugal on the original map and ended up in the Tasman Sea located near New Zealand, on the antipode map. Out of curiosity I then dug a hole in China on the original map and ended up in Argentina on the antipode map.
Gail McAuliffe's curator insight, March 1, 2015 11:12 AM
Perhaps this article will sway some climate change skeptics...
Paul Farias's curator insight, April 9, 2015 11:33 AM
So bizarre how the rate of the arctic warming causes us to get smacked with the cold weather. Its one of those things that are like how does the jet stream actually work. Including the fact that California is getting hit with a major drought.
Albert Jordan's curator insight, January 29, 2014 8:16 PM
England is in a peculiar situation due to their geographic location limiting their ability to expand outward and collect homegrown resources. As the first world nations push towards a "greener" and more sustainable energy producing ability, the effects of trying to help the Earth, both positive and negative need to be taken into effect. As some opponents to the wind farm have brought up, it can negatively affect the bird species in the area. What matters most? England's attempt to wean themselves off of unsustainable resource dependence in order to enhance the future generations may be seen as a positive but with every action, there is a reaction.
The issue that comes up as we humans try to better our relationship with the Earth in an effort not to destroy our home, paired with our lust for a healthy and non-apocalyptic future that we can still absorb ourselves into social media – do we negatively impact local animal species for our greater cause or do we limit our footprint even if it takes a viable option for the enhancement of our own resource dependence off the table. I guess if the long term effect on the birds and the resulting issues of their no longer presence was fully and responsibly researched and the pros and cons were compared to each other, then time will tell if the wind farm does more harm or good.
Shiva Prakash's curator insight, February 3, 2014 11:21 PM
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Tracy Galvin's curator insight, May 5, 2014 3:08 PM
It is very nice to see alternative forms of energy being explored. The conscious effort to cut carbon emissions is a benefit for the entire planet.
Matthew DiLuglio's curator insight, November 27, 2013 4:25 PM
I have been a long-time fan of pumpkin coffee, and tomorrow I will probably have some with my cousins and family... Some areas of Asia allow consumption of dogs, other areas of the US allow consumption of roadkill, and that is different from what most people in RI are used to... So I guess, it's not really my business what other people and countries do with their pumpkin crops, as long as it doesn't negatively affect other people. My neighbor has won some prizes, I think 3rd place in RI for largest pumpkin contests, which is pretty cool, because for several months, you can see their pumpkin garden from my backyard. Those pumpkins are enormous, and made me wonder if there was anything being done to make the modified pumpkins more usable in food. I know GMOs are a touchy issue, but to feed the starving people around the world, you have to wonder if one pumpkin at 2000 lbs could feed a village of people. Lots of people that don't like GMOs probably do unhealthy things in other ways, so their huge activism movements really boggle me. Labeling GMOs is one thing, but stopping genetic modifications seems as controversial as starting them, especially when some people can benefit from them. Whatever, I guess pumpkins are cool for whatever people want to do with them, including smashing them... this week on RIC's campus I saw a smashed pumpkin. The only thing that really popped into my head was not "what a waste," or "oh, those delinquents," but rather "that seems fun." I did assume though, that no one was hurt by the smashing of the pumpkin...
Jessica Rieman's curator insight, March 19, 2014 5:14 PM
Although you wouldn't think it there are many different countries and specific regions that demonstrate the perfect cropping land and fertilization process to grow pumpkins. Out of the US power house pumpkin growing Illinois is named number 1. Along side California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvainnia, Mississippi. But lets travel abroad to Africa, now me personally I wouldnt think that there are alot of pumpkin patches in Africa but there are many different places in Africa that pumpkins are grown. SOme of these places are Egypt with (690,000) and then there is South Africa with (378,776). I found these numbers quite interesting because one wouldn't think that there are pumpkin patches in Africa.
Jacob Crowell's curator insight, October 14, 2014 3:25 PM
This is an interesting way to graph out the urban footprints of various cities from around the world. This also shows how the United States has a number of the largest urban centers in the world. Along the top, New York, Chicago, LA, and Miami are massive compared to cities like Hong Kong. This shows how in the United States there are massive amounts of urban growth. Even in China where their population is one of the worlds biggest, Hong Kong a major city only has 7.1 million. In the United States, for the past century cities have been growing and this graph shows that.
Samuel D'Amore's curator insight, December 14, 2014 6:40 PM
These visuals really help to show that the size of a city doesn't necessarily correspond with it's population. Many years ago the trend was the larger the city in turn it would posses a larger population than a physically smaller city. Today this no longer holds true, in fact many smaller cities vastly out populate large sprawling cities. Most of these mega-cities in Asia and Latin America are incredibly over build and densely packed surrounded by miles of slums.
Nic Hardisty's comment, October 15, 2012 9:01 AM
I was definitely unaware of where my drinking water came from. This is nice, user-friendly map... Hopefully it gets updated regularly, as it will be interesting to see how these sources change over time.
Ken Morrison's comment, August 30, 2012 8:25 PM
That was cool. Thanks for sharing. I have a new fun tool for virtual storm chasing. I'm not as adventurous as I used to be. Is there any chance that there is an international version? We had a big typhoon in Asia this past week. Crazy weather.
Luis Sadeck 's comment, September 24, 2013 9:01 AM
Very crazy this map! One good application from technics of collect of data and building of map enviromental.
Thanks for sharing
Seth Dixon's curator insight, January 6, 2014 8:53 AM
This interactive map is a 'nearly live' dynamic display of United States winds patterns (speed, direction and broad spatial context). Click on the image to see the animated, large version. Super cool!!
Lindsey Robinson's comment, August 27, 2012 5:22 PM
Google Earth is an amazing way to teach children of all ages (and adults for that matter) about the geography of the Earth. It is such an abstract way of conveying geographic concepts. What an amazing teaching tool....and as an added bonus, it's FREE!!
Gary Robertson's comment, May 7, 2012 9:36 PM
Water is also tied up in hydrated minerals in the rocks of the earth's crust. While not "free" it is still significant and is occasionally freed through subduction and volcanic activity. Furthermore, the earth's mantle may contain even more water than the rest combined! So, maybe the Single Sphere should be larger by more than the cube root of 2, or about 1,083 miles in diameter. See mantle water data at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0307_0307_waterworld.html
Lorraine Chaffer's curator insight, October 15, 2016 8:40 PM
Water resources
Students investigate the characteristics and spatial distribution of global water resources, for example:
Geoworld 8 NSW
Chapter 1: Water resources and processes
1.1 Water as an environmental resource
1.2: Water: Essential but limited resource


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OXFORD United have ended Sean McGinty's loan from Manchester United several months early.
The 19-year-old was due to have stayed with the club until January, but has instead returned to Manchester this week.
The left back was unable to dislodge Tony Capaldi in the starting line-up on a regular basis and struggled to settle.
U's boss Chris Wilder said: "We've made a decision to send him back to Manchester United and we'll look to bring someone in to cover."
McGinty made two appearances for the U's, most recently as a late substitute in the 1-0 win against Swindon Town in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy last week.


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PRL325 Administrative & Employment Law
This course presents basic concepts of administrative law and procedure in federal and state agencies as specifically related to employment law. Students will learn both formal and informal advocacy techniques for representing a client in an administrative process. Substantive topics will include administrative delegation of power, rule making, agency discretionary powers, remedies, and judicial review and in the area of employment law, civil rights, sexual discrimination, Title VII discrimination and general principles of employment law. Procedural topics include agency operation, adjudication, hearing preparation, administrative hearing, alternative dispute resolution, exhaustion of remedies, and judicial appeals. 3 Credits


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Four Notre Dame starters were dismissed from the school for academic fraud after an internal investigation this summer was completed, Fox Sports reported Friday.
Wide receiver DaVaris Daniels, defensive back KeiVarae Russell, defensive lineman Ishaq Williams and linebacker Kendall Moore were investigated by Notre Dame.
A year ago, starting quarterback Everett Golson was suspended for the 2013 season after he was caught cheating on an exam. However, he was allowed to return to Notre Dame for the winter semester and is back as the starter.
It is not clear if the four players dismissed in the recent investigation will be allowed to return to the school.
Notre Dame, No. 17 in the USA Today coaches poll, opens the season Aug. 30 against Rice.


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Students will improve their overall fitness in the areas of cardiovascular efficiency, muscular endurance, muscular strength, body composition and flexibility.
Students are required to record each workout they complete during the semester and submit their record by the last day of the semester.
A circuit is an aerobic activity in which one rotates from a bicycle to a weight machine. The fitness circuit consists of 13 machines and 13 bikes. The combination of machines that emphasize muscle tone and the bikes that emphasize aerobic training provides the client with an overall fitness plan.
Join the circuit at any empty station. The voice command regulates the amount of time spent at each station. The pattern of movement is from exer-cycle to weight machine and from weight machine to exer-cycle. It is recommended that you check your heart rate to ascertain if you are at your training level. At the west end of the center there are 13 stationary cycles and 13 weight-lifting machines to alternate back and forth for an aerobic workout.
Before beginning the circuit, all students should complete a 10 minute warm-up. Use the equipment in the aerobic area that includes treadmills, elliptical trainers, rowing machine and Stairmasters. If you are waiting for a piece of equipment, you must wait in line.
After warm-up, students may move to ANY OPEN station in the circuit. The voice command regulates the amount of time spent at each station. The movement pattern is regulated directly from exercycle to weight machine and diagonal from weight machine to exercycle. The circuit follows a clockwise rotation. Everyone MUST follow this circuit progression. YOU MUST PERFORM YOUR WORKOUT IN THE FITNESS CENTER!
Upon completion of the circuit, the student should walk around the room to allow the heart rate to fall below 100 beats-per-minute. Cool down should last at least 10 minutes. This is a good time to do your stretching routine.
While enrolled in P.E. 153, students may be assessed for fitness in blood pressure, flexibility, cardiovascular and muscular endurance, and body composition. This service is free to all enrolled students.
Abdominal exercise classes are held throughout the Semester.
Every two weeks, students are given the opportunity to read a fitness-related handout and take a quiz on the information from the handout. If students score a perfect 5/5, they are eligible to enter the raffle to win great prizes.
Because City College is concerned about the health and safety of its students, we teach "best practices" regarding attire. Thus, to avoid clothing from getting caught in machines, the student needs to avoid wearing street shoes (leather or rigid soles), sleeveless shirts, crop tops, tank tops, jeans, leotards, and clothing with belts or exposed zippers. Improper attire will result in exclusion from the center.
All those working out in the Fitness Center must provide their own towel. Towels should be used to wipe the upholstery as you leave. STUDENTS WITHOUT TOWELS WILL BE DENIED ACCESS TO THE CENTER. (No washcloths, t-shirts or sweatshirts used as a towel will be accepted).
The women's and men's locker rooms are located a few feet from the Fitness Center in the building directly south of the Fitness Center. The women's and men's locker rooms are located downstairs in the P-Building. Because there is no locker room in the Fitness Center, students are unable to change attire in the Fitness Center. Showers are available in both the women's and men's locker rooms. Towels are not provided.
Failure to adhere to these policies and procedures will result in removal from the Fitness Center by the instructor on duty.
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