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Juan Pablo and Andi get into a dune buggy. Thank goodness they're getting this quality dune buggy time in to properly determine their compatibility. The dune buggy hits a pothole, forcing them to pull over. Now, there's a camera mounted underneath the dune buggy to give us an ultra-clear view of the pothole disaster. I'm not certain that this pothole disaster wasn't completely staged. It's either staged or 'The Bachelor' is staffed by the best camera planning crew ever.
They happen upon a waterfall. You guys! Waterfalls are totally symbolic of love! Hopefully, one of them realizes that and makes the comparison. They sit under the waterfall and no one mentions how love falls like water or how water is falling all around them like love. No one even climbs down anything. This whole date is devoid of love.
After the loveless waterfall, they talk about life while frogs incessantly scream in the background. It has become an 'End of the Season' Bachelor tradition to have conversations drowned out by billions of frogs. These producers can plan ahead to get camera shots of pot holes but they can't schedule a pre-sex conversation more than twenty feet away from screaming frogs.
The Fantasy Suite sex invitation is next. Unlike crazy Clare, Andi doesn't mess around. She accepts Chris Harrison's e-vite to have sex with Juan Pablo. She's all, "Fantasy Suite? More like, fantasy? Sweet!" She doesn't actually say that. No one would. Andi thanks Juan Pablo for the amazing date that he carefully orchestrated and paid for.
So far, nothing egregious has happened. It's coming, though. ABC promised.
They go inside and you can still hear the screaming frogs. The frogs are easier to understand than Juan Pablo. They make out. There is much tongue.
After the commercial, all hell breaks loose. Juan Pablo loved his overnight date and thought it went really well. He digs Andi and thinks she can be the Juan.
Andi was not happy with her sex-having experience. She called their night a disaster. Juan Pablo wouldn't let her talk about her feelings. I hate that. She doesn't think Juan Pablo cares. I Juander what gave her that idea. Juan Pablo talked about how he also had sex with his other girlfriend and that crosses a line with Andi. You just don't do that, you guys. Andi is super mad and I am totally digging it. You go, Andi!
Andi wants love but she has come to the realization that it Juon't happen with Juan Pablo. She cries because she has Juasted her time on Juan Pablo.
Nikki's date is next. She's wearing pajama bottoms and the fringe from a lamp shade as a top. It's Grown Sexy. Juan Pablo is wearing a wife beater with a florescent green pocket. It looks like he has a post-it note on his nipple. As she approaches Juan Pablo, he tells the camera that he likes what they're going to be doing today a lot. He means intercourse.
They ride horses. ABC, who has proven their undying commitment to clever camera placement, has placed cameras in the horse saddles to capture bouncy and blurry images of Nikki and Juan Pablo's face. I have no idea who this benefits.
Nikki's top allows us to see 78% of her boobs. I'm not complaining. I'm just doing the math. If you were Clare's dead dad, and you had the ability to watch over all of us, you would totally be in St. Lucia watching over Nikki.
Interesting horse riding perspective
There's a ton of horse riding. It's fun. Juan Pablo says, "Aye aye aye" for the hundredth time. When we've exhausted the far reaches of where horse riding on TV can take us, they sit down on the beach to drink water. There's a whole pineapple on their beach blanket. Did Bachelor interns provide them with a knife? Don't answer. I don't even care anymore.
There are still six hours left in tonight's show. They drink more alcohol and talk in front of a fire. Juan Pablo scolds Nikki for thinking. This man does not like his women to think. I couldn't pull off the clothes Nikki wore today but, Juan Pablo would totally dig my lack of thinking.
Nikki and Juan Pablo read Chris Harrison's Fantasy Suite sex invitation. It comes with a skeleton key for a hotel room. There's some crack security in a hotel with a skeleton key. You just can't fabricate skeleton key technology. Nice thinking, ABC. When St. Lucian bandits break into Juan Pablo's room and steal all of his K-Pop records, you'll be sorry.
Nikki is worried about the fact that she hasn't told Juan Pablo that she loves him yet. I've tried to hide it and, I don't know if you guys can tell from reading my recap but, I've been really worried about it too. I haven't slept in days and my skin is itchy.
They slurp faces on a St. Lucian couch. I believe they talk but, I can't really hear well. The screaming frogs are back. Nikki blurts out that she loves Juan Pablo. She didn't even give ABC a chance to pipe in soft piano music. It was a very abrupt love pronouncement. ABC hits the gas on sweet music for their post-love-pronouncement make-out session. There is no way that this over-night date is a disaster with the amount of love in the room. It's almost like a waterfall of love.
Chris Harrison punches in for a Juan-on-Juan interview with everyone's least favorite soccer player. They hug before they talk. Neither of the men have their sleeve buttons buttoned. It must be warm in St. Lucia.
Chris Harrison has Juan Pablo explain the difference between Venezuelan 'like' and American 'like'. I guess there isn't much of a difference. So, that's cleared up. We still have 45 minutes remaining and the only portion left to show is the rose ceremony. Juan Pablo watches video messages from his girlfriends.
Nikki reiterates her love for Juan Pablo, not that we had the chance to forget it. I haven't forgotten. Clare also reminds Juan Pablo that she's in love. These girls' love for Juan Pablo is almost like basic math for me. I couldn't forget it if I tried. It's just up in my brain and it always will be.
Andi's video message is a little different. She isn't in love. She's in a different place. It's far west of love. You'd need a different map to navigate the place Andi is in. As Juan Pablo is watching Andi's video message, she walks up behind him to give the rest of the message in person. The technology in St. Lucia is amazing. You can do video messages, live messages, and combination live/video messages. What part of Oklahoma is St. Lucia in anyway?
The music provided for Andi's walk up to Juan Pablo is dramatic. It's the kind of music used in a suspenseful movie right before they reveal the killer. The killer is Andi. She's about to kill their relationship. Boom!
This episode is taking forever. When they went to commercial, Andi was walking up the road to meet Juan Pablo. When we return from commercial, she's on the same road but she's further away than when we went to commercial! What the hell happened during the commercial? Did she step into another St. Lucian pot hole?
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Interpreting results: ROC curves
Sensitivity and specificity
The whole point of an ROC curve is to help you decide where to draw the line between 'normal' and 'not normal'. This will be an easy decision if all the control values are higher (or lower) than all the patient values. Usually, however, the two distributions overlap, making it not so easy.
To help you make this decision, Prism tabulates and plots the sensitivity and specificity of the test at various cut-off values.
Sensitivity: The fraction of people with the disease that the test correctly identifies as positive.
Specificity: The fraction of people without the disease that the test correctly identifies as negative.
Prism calculates the sensitivity and specificity using each value in the data table as the cutoff value. This means that it calculates many pairs of sensitivity and specificity. I
Prism displays these results in two forms. The table labeled "ROC" curve is used to create the graph of 100%-Specificity% vs. Sensitivity%. The table labeled "Sensitivity and Specifity" tabulates those values along with their 95% confidence interval for each possible cutoff between normal and abnormal.
The area under a ROC curve quantifies the overall ability of the test to discriminate between those individuals with the disease and those without the disease. A truly useless test (one no better at identifying true positives than flipping a coin) has an area of 0.5. A perfect test (one that has zero false positives and zero false negatives) has an area of 1.00. Your test will have an area between those two values. Even if you choose to plot the results as percentages, Prism reports the area as a fraction.
While it is clear that the area under the curve is related to the overall ability of a test to correctly identify normal versus abnormal, it is not so obvious how one interprets the area itself. There is, however, a very intuitive interpretation.
If patients have higher test values than controls, then:
The area represents the probability that a randomly selected patient will have a higher test result than a randomly selected control.
If patients tend to have lower test results than controls:
The area represents the probability that a randomly selected patient will have a lower test result than a randomly selected control.
For example: If the area equals 0.80, on average, a patient will have a more abnormal test result than 80% of the controls. If the test were perfect, every patient would have a more abnormal test result than every control and the area would equal 1.00.
If the test were worthless, no better at identifying normal versus abnormal than chance, then one would expect that half of the controls would have a higher test value than a patient known to have the disease and half would have a lower test value. Therefore, the area under the curve would be 0.5.
The area under a ROC curve can never be less than 0.50. If the area is first calculated as less than 0.50, Prism will reverse the definition of abnormal from a higher test value to a lower test value. This adjustment will result in an area under the curve that is greater than 0.50.
SE and Confidence Interval of Area
Prism also reports the standard error of the area under the ROC curve, as well as the 95% confidence interval. These results are computed by a nonparametric method that does not make any assumptions about the distributions of test results in the patient and control groups. This method is described by Hanley, J.A., and McNeil, B. J. (1982). Radiology 143:29-36.
Interpreting the confidence interval is straightforward. If the patient and control groups represent a random sampling of a larger population, you can be 95% sure that the confidence interval contains the true area.
P Value
Prism completes your ROC curve evaluation by reporting a P value that tests the null hypothesis that the area under the curve really equals 0.50. In other words, the P value answers this question:
If the test diagnosed disease no better flipping a coin, what is the chance that the area under the ROC curve would be as high (or higher) than what you observed?
If your P value is small, as it usually will be, you may conclude that your test actually does discriminate between abnormal patients and normal controls.
If the P value is large, it means your diagnostic test is no better than flipping a coin to diagnose patients. Presumably, you wouldn't collect enough data to create an ROC curve until you are sure your test actually can diagnose the disease, so high P values should occur very rarely.
Prism calculates z= (AUC - 0.5)/SEarea and then determines P from the z ratio (normal distribution). In the numerator, we subtract 0.5, because that is the area predicted by the null hypothesis. The denominator is the SE of the area, which Prism reports.
Comparing ROC curves
Prism does not compare ROC curves. It is, however, quite easy to manually compare two ROC curves created with data from two different (unpaired) sets of patients and controls.
The method described above is appropriate when you compare two ROC curves with data collected from different subjects. A different method is needed to compare ROC curves when both laboratory tests were evaluated in the same group of patients and controls.
Prism does not compare paired-ROC curves. To account for the correlation between areas under your two curves, use the method described by Hanley, J.A., and McNeil, B. J. (1983). Radiology 148:839-843. Accounting for the correlation leads to a larger z value and, thus, a smaller P value.

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Superman Returns - Sequel or Reboot?
We all know that The next Superman film has been under question...
1 question what the story should be about
2 who should direct
3 who should be the next villian
4 who should be on the cast
5 Will there be a sequel
Now we all know Superman Returns was not as action packed as a lot of you thought it would be but since they have rebooted the series you dont need to explain the origin or why there was an abstince of a superman film the last 20 years now that they have exsplained what has been going on we can now go on to more action packed Supes films.
Answer to Question 1- we need a story to base the movie on well i say we look at the 90's death of superman since bryan singer (director of x-men 1&2 superman returns) added super son in SR i say we start off the story another 7 years later. superman is finaly excepted back into the daily life of metropolis & lois lane's previous lover from SR has left her 6 years before. he takes there son with him and she never hears from him again.
now lois is romantically involved with superman once again.
Answer 2 i think gavin hood or christopher nolan should direct.
Answer 3 now as i told you its been 7 years and every thing seems to be going right luthor is out of jail but is not the main villian hes ia a side villian the movie would begin with a fist smashing the side of a steel wall later in the film you will see doomsday bashing his way threw the wall and then it will begin the fight scene of a life time now keep in mind the movie will end with the death of superman.
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Clark/Superman-brandon routh
Lois unknown some one who looks more mature not kate bosworth
Jimmy-Sam Huntington
perry white-Frank Langella
cat grant will be a new character added to help lois and jimmy over there grieving of superman
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yes there will be sequels if it turns out right
first sequel will be based on the funeral and the merge of new superman wich will include the son from SR as superboy suffering amnesia from a man that killed richard his dad
and that is the plan i have put out for the reboot
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Some good ideas.
Superman returns wasn't brilliant but I say sequel as long as they dont mention too much of the first film
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I def say keep Routh. I liked him as supes and clark. Braniac should be the main villain.
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really?? this article...AGAIN???? this is the 40th time in two weeks, and i don't think anyone on this site can count high enough to know how many TOTAL times this has been put up.
hey, maybe we should put something up about the spiderman reboot, that's something we've never talked about here...
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I don't think the death of superman comics is a great idea for the next film. outside of comicbook fan circles, I can't see it doing well. It's too different to all the other superhero films out at the moment.
I think eventually, after this superman saga, someone should do a 'death of superman' trilogy of films following the comics. I don't think superman lore (not origins, but the lore of his universe) is fresh enough in people's minds to do such a massive and complicated story as thsi right now. Though I do think you have it right with having a film start with the steel door fist thing and end with the death of superman, the next one be the rise of the supermen, and the final one being the return of the real superman and defeating of doomsday :)
Routh for Superman :)
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I'm not sure, but I don't want a reboot. SR was a fresh start. I think Superman should battle Metallo, Bizarro, Braniac, Darkside, Resurrected Zod, or Mongul. I want Lex Luthor in the movie because I want to see Superman getting angry with revenge and almost killed him after being stabbed with a stupid Kryptonite Knife. Plus Superman still needs to get his remaining crystals so he can talk to Jor-el again.
Rebooting is not an option. Keep Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey and the SR cast, found another Lois Lane, and director.
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i think most of the viewing audience is looking for the Reeves/Routh diplomatic version - rather than the agressive born leader type we have in the comics and animated series- i don't think we can make a hybrid of the 2 - if they reboot it i think they're gonna make it more teeny like they're doing with Spiderman, but as i heard someone say, Routh as leader of the JLA might not work
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You need to use Spellcheck.....
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reboot please. they made it wayyyy too much like the old superman films which is why it didnt work. we need a new director dor this. get mcg, Guy Ritchie, nolan, Louis Leterrier, or Jon Favreau.
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Everything was good enuff, except Luthor. I dont want to even see any reference to him whatsoever. Not even as a side villain.
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Superman Returns wasn't that bad. It was true to the Donner films, witch to me is the standard, and musical score is memorable. And it paid tribute to a lot of the history if to n cought any of it. The only thing I would have changed would have been the supes has a son and that terrible suit.
Director: Call me crazy but how about James Cameron. If you want action look at what he did with the Terminator, T2 and Avitar. And if you need a love story I guess you could mention Titanic to.
Villains: Brainiac and Luther or Zod for villains. You could tie in Brainiac coming to earth the same time Kal-El did and he teams up with Luther in some way. Zod could make a grand return from the Phantom Zone.
Cast: Keep Brandon Routh. Did anyone else notice at times during SR how much he looks like Christopher Reeve? Get a new Lois but keep the rest of the cast from SR.
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Yep. Agree with the majority here. Routh and the continuing story..a different director maybe, but I think if Singer got another crack at it he would be more comic/fanboy friendly with a sequel.
BUT, its all moot anyway because the next time we see another Supes movie, Brandon..and myself will probably be pushing 50!
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That reall isnt the way i would go with it. I would never include anything that Brian Singer had his hands on. They need to reboot completely and tell the story in a more dramatic and action packed way. Just like they did with the Batman series. I wont lie Routh wasnt bad but they need to give him some better material to work with and he should be fine.
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I am okay with a reboot as long as we don't have to go through the whole origin story again. I liked Routh as Superman.
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Abrams to direct reboot. Nuff said.
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The current trend to reboot everything and anything, churning out big spectacle films with little or no substance is very irritating.
Too may big names control what's going on in films nowadays, they need to go back to basics and try making new original films the old fashioned way!
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Superman = Jon Hamm
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Theo I disagree with the philosphical direction Singer was taking Superman...wth...go for a sequel and shift it towards action pic. Give us another, stronger alien threat. The latest Brainac story from the comics was a fine read. That villian would work very well. I have no desire to see the Death of Superman story until the character is better re-established and used as a spring board for other DC character movies. The Superman franchies should be the foundation of the DC Universe on film.
If Reboot, Great, just no more origin story and no Lex as lead Villain. Its well past time for Superman to stop that alien invasion or take out a super powered advisary.
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superman returns was ok! not great but good enough!
and really if there any of you guys who think routh was a bad superman..... go see the doctor..... you probably have brain-damage!!
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Who should the villain be? Brainiac and Darkseid. Let's see someone hit Supes on all levels. Physical and mental. I don't think they've explored the mental abilities of Supes much, so it's a logical choice. And because he is such a well known character, we don't need a retelling of his origin. I'm tired of hearing about Doomsday. Get over it already.
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They should keep Brainiac and Darkseid (cant forget Doomsday) for the last few films
I say Bizzaro for the next, with the SAME cast from Superman Returns
R.I.P. Spider-Man series
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now that people have thrown there opinions at me i think they should add at least one or two movies between the seven years and the should bring in brainac just to show there are more villain then zod and maybe a film a bout bazaro or parasite
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Michael Bay should produce the next few movies. I think his "large scale movie" style would be a good fit for a supes flick- lots of action and big fight scenes. Maybe at the end he could show Superman out in space, punching the shit out of a comet or something.
Whatever they do, the next movie should completely ignore Superman returns, just like IT ignored most of the other superman movies that were made before it. Not that it was that bad, but the whole "super son" thing just adds too many complications to move forward.
"Hey Lois, I know it's not your weekend, but can you take him for a day or two? I have to fly out into space and stop the sun from imploding... don't start this now...seriously, the world is going to end if I don't.... why do you always have to be such a bitch...?"
And there you go, sun implodes because superman can't find a sitter.
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The death of Superman/funeral for a friend/Doomsday could not be ONE move. That's why the cartoon was awful. 2 1/2 years of every title telling one story squeezed into 120 minutes won't work.
We do need more Superman though.
Also, am I the only one who likes Superman Returns? I thought it was great. Didn't care for the suit modifications.
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i liked it to batfan! and superman was never ment to be a "dark" figure! the gentleman in shining armour that's what allways was, exactly like routh portrayed him!!
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batman can be dark, x-men can be,hulk can be, but spidey is lighthearted, fantastic four is partly humor, and superman is the gentleman.
and if I want to see dark movies..... I'll watch 300,
the punisher, and hopefully conan.
and sin city ofcourse!!
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I've been saying this for ages now, but the next film should be a reboot in which Superman is well established in Metropolis and the villains would be Metallo and Brainac with Lex Luthor still involved, but in less of a major way.
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Superman Returns was an abomination.
Every single member of the cast was wrong. Routh, Spacey, Bosworth, even Langella. Nothing wrong with the actors themselves, just wrong for the roles as written, wrong for these characters. I know some disagree on the Routh issue, but, more than just the faults with the script, he never convinced me in the role - even when I saw the first stills of him in the suit, I instinctively reacted "no" - and nothing in the film itself changed my mind about that. He does a good impression of Christopher Reeve doing an impression of Clark Kent, but, like a photocopy of a photocopy, it degrades the original rather than enhances it. I know others disagree - and I won't try to convince them otherwise - but Routh was poor and we need a new guy.
It wasn't bad because it lacked action - it's just that the lack of action highlighted the rest of the film's flaws even more than would have been the case if there were some kick-ass action to mitigate it. More action would have made it better yes, but it wouldn't have changed all the things Singer and Co. got fundamentally wrong which would carry over to any sequel.
The kid, of course. Enough has been said about that. Take that as "unfixable problem #1"
The characterisations are all wrong too:
Superman wouldn't leave Earth without a word. He just wouldn't. He would at least tell people that he might be gone for some time, perhaps forever, and they would need to work together for each other even more so now...
Lois, not having heard one word about why he simply disappeared for 5 years, can only assume that he must be dead or some other unavoidable reason. In no circumstances would she ever have reason to believe that he'd just abandoned them without a supremely good reason (that he did just that just compounds the error, rather than excusing it) and if she was going to write anything at all, it would be a glowing 'obituary' about how much the Man of Steel meant to them and how he affected people everywhere and inspired us all, etc. Not that smear piece they showed us in the movie. Not in a million years.
The fact that the kid is 5 years old - and she's led Cyclops to believe that he was the father can only logically mean that she got with Scott/Richard the moment Supes disappeared - not even waiting a few months before moving on (a few months and the bump would make her lie/deceit/innocent mistake moot - it had to be within weeks at most). Is this the Lois we know? Right. Not remotely.
Lex - what a colossal waste of one of the greatest, most complex villains in comicbook history. A megolomaniacal estate agent? Again? And not even a smart one - who did he think would 'buy' any of his barren, lifeless, real estate? Did he not think that wiping out millions to create this useless hunk of rock might make his new country a bit unappealing, potential property selling wise, not to mention the perpetual harassment he and any of his 'tenants' would get from the international community in perpetuity (not to mention the fact that no international bank would touch him or any insurance company cover any of the residents - mundane considerations perhaps, and wouldn't make for exciting storytelling elements, but still, something a freaking genius would probably consider when concocting a 'foolproof plan' to get rich). Then we have sleeping with old ladies for money. And hired 'goons' and a 'moll'? In this day and age? Puh-lease. Badly thought out, throwaway and downright insulting, both to the character and to our intelligence.
As was the whole movie frankly.
Never mind how unoriginal and trite it was to use it yet again, Kryptonite cannot be overcome by an 'act of will' - if that were the case, that implies that every other time Superman has been overcome by it, it must be that he was simply not motivated enough - too weak, mentally - to overcome it. Kryptonite is poisonous, deadly and debilitating - no matter how much Supes tries, he CANNOT simply grit his teeth and lift a mountain of the stuff. Just awful.
Mopey Superman? Stalker Superman? Stupid Superman? Dead-beat-dad Superman? No thanks. I want courageous Superman, determined Superman, selfless Superman, honourable Superman, super Superman. Superman basically. Just do that. Easy.
Sorry, Superman Returns can't be fixed. Adding action to it, however 'kewl', won't undo the mistakes that have already been made.
No sequel. Reboot, re-imagine, re-tell, whatever. But this time get it right.
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Personally, I think SR sufficiently "Doomsday'd" the franchise.
They have had so many chances to expand the story of Superman beyond Supe and Louis vs. Luther...Where's Braniac? Parasite even?
If they really want to keep running Luther as a bad guy, give it some diversity...maybe he merges with Braniac? or creates a tag team of Metallo and Parasite to take on superman???
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I'd even settle for mxyzptlk...
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if they do a reboot and start with the origin then they will have to reestablish every thing to add different villains so i think they should just continue with this series instead of redoing the whole story like batman begins did here is a link to a trailer i made with clips and music for the factor 5 canceled superman game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLrc6o1s0I
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Superman should start over as a reboot, and Krypton should be reshown to the audience as well. I say let the heirs to Superman get some of the movie profits, as well as Warner Bros. and the people/cast who worked on the movie, so the reboot can be done correctly.
Start of the first movie showing Krypton in its final days. It has been a time of chaos and panic. Recent earthquakes have caused devastating amounts of damage across the planet and many Kryptonians are in need of help. During this time, martial law was brought upon the Kryptonian people by the Kryptonian high council and the leader of restoring order to the planet is General Zod. However, Zod becomes corrupted and he and a group of radical soldiers under his control try to take over the planet by overthrowing the Kryptonian high council. Chaos ensues and battles are fought, but Zod is defeated and brought to trial. He is sentenced to be imprisoned for a set amount of time and is sent in a rocket capsule, where he is frozen briefly, into a ring orbiting around the planet to serve out his sentence, with a computer chip engrained in his forehead to rehabilitate him during the jail sentence. This is the set way that Kryptonians get rehabilitated and serve out jail time; it's in the comics-before the phantom zone was built.
Jor-el is one of the leading scientists on Krypton and is a member of the Krypton high council. He decides to look into the earthquakes, while the rest of the council focuses on restoring order and peace to the planet. He does research into the core and landmass plates of the planet in the wastelands of Krypton and discovers that the core is unstable and will set off a chain reaction in a short amount of time and will destroy the planet. He comes back to the capital city of Krypton in his ship and tries to warn the high council about Krypton's fate, but they will not listen to reason, since they do not want to cause anymore panic in the community after having experienced Gen. Zod's rebellion and the earthquakes that took place, which they believe in simply the planet shifting its plates according to their computer system, Brainiac. Jor-el is forbade to interfere in these matters anymore or will suffer great consequences. However, he has secretly built an experimental space ship to be able to leave the planet, but has only been able to build one in the time and resources he had. He plans to send his son, Kal-el or Superman, away if his research proves true. Jor-el then travels to the central unit computer on Krypton in the capital city, which houses Brainiac in order to see why Brainiac disagrees with his findings. Jor-el discovers that Brainiac lied about the plate shiftings, so that he could gather all of Krypton's information and escape the planet before it was destroyed. Brainiac is an artificial intelligence central computer that was built to store all information of Krypton and would control everything that ran on computer on Krypton. However, Brainiac planned to one day take over the planet for himself, using Krypton's technology against the people and create android armies to rule over the people. Brainiac reasoned that his secret plans would not come to fruition and that the Kryptonians would leave him to be destroyed if they knew that the planet was going to explode and would try to save the people instead, so Brainiac sacrificed the planet's citizens to save himself.
Brainiac then tries to call Krypton's planetary police force to kill Jor-el, who escapes to his home and sends Kal-el in the spaceship to Earth before Krypton explodes. Brainiac downloads his memory into an android and gets into a spaceship he created to escape the explosion. Also, when Krypton explodes the prison ring orbiting around the planet's equator explodes but General Zod's capsule and a few other Krytonian prison capsules are knocked out of the prison ring and escape the blast when Krypton explodes.
Kal-el then reaches Earth, crash-landing into a field around Smallville, Kansas and is discovered by the Kent's who are driving home. The Kents show compassion toward the boy and decide to take him in as one of their own, calling him Clark Kent. The next sequence shows Clark as a teenager going to high school trying to fit in, while discovering his secret powers, and saving people in danger along the way. He also briefly falls in love with Lana Lang, a friend of his in high school and whom he develops a relationship with. Clark later inquires about his powers and his parents relay to him that he is an alien, showing him his spaceship and a crystal that came with the spaceship in the process. Clark then decides to try and reason things out and discover who he truly is. He embarks on a voyag, leaving his family and Lana behind and ends up in the Arctic around the North Pole. He spends time there and dealing with the pressure of being an alien throws his crystal in anger towards the horizon. In a matter of moments, a giant fortress is constructed out of Krypton's unique technology and metals that was used for the buildings of Krypton. Clark enters the fortress and finds all sorts of computer information and unique features in the fortress, which is later dubbed the Fortress of Solitude, and Clark activates a computer image of Jor-el, which tells him about his history and who he is.
Later, Clark travels to Metropolis and lands a job at the Daily Planet as a reporter and meets Lois Lane, who is just a friend to him at the moment. At night, he becomes a hero in red and blue tights with a big s, his family crest, on his chest saving people and fighting crime, since he decides to use his powers for good. The people of Metropolis give him the name, Superman, and praise him for his good works. It is at this time that Zod and Brainiac crash land on Earth. Brainiac gets Zod out of his capsule and both decide to come in league with one another to take over Earth. Both come into Metropolis and other parts of the globe and cause all sorts of damage. Superman eventually tries to stop them but is easily defeated. He then goes back to the fortress of solitude and asks Jor-el for advice in stopping them. However, Brainiac and Zod come to the Fortress and find out everything about Superman and who he is. They nearly kill him and destroy the fortress. Superman in his weakest moment is revived by Jor-el, who transfers his life essence into Superman.
Superman returns to the world after a period of training and preparing to defeat Zod and Brainiac after his last encounter with them at the fortress of solitude. Brainiac is destroyed by Superman and Zod and Superman have a tremendous battle on the streets of Metropolis. Zod is defeated and retreats to Smallville, where he kills Lana Lang, and tries to kill the Kents as well at their homestead. Superman, in a fit of rage comes close to turning to evil and almost kills Zod, but Jonathan Kent, Clark's earth father, and Martha Kent, Clark's earth mother, stop him from doing so and reason with him. Clark then takes another device that Jor-el built, a second dimensional generator, and places the weakened Zod into the second dimension, a prison dimension, known as the Phantom Zone, where Zod spends the remainder of his days. Clark then finds a second crystal hidden in his spaceship and goes back to the Arctic, where the second crystal builds a new fortress of solitude and a second computer essence of Jor-el inhabits the Fortress. Superman his hailed as a hero and is accepted into society and Clark starts to find love with Lois Lane after a period of time.
However in the second movie, a blood sample is found of Superman on the streets of Metropolis from the fight with Zod and and is brought to Lex Luthor who uses it to create a clone with stem cell research of Superman, known as Bizarro, which is in league with Luthor to try and control the world. Luthor also discovers Kryptonite and tries to kill Superman by those means as well. Superman and Lois Lane also fall in love and develop their relationship further. Later, Bizarro is defeated after many battles and Lex Luthor is sent to prison.
Then in the third movie, Superman fights Doomsday and is killed following the death of Superman storyline, but Lois who was brought to the Fortress of Solitude in the second movie by Superman, when he told the truth about himself, decides, under Jor-el's instruction to use his life force essence to revive Superman, but this is the last time, since there are only two crystals in the spaceship that was sent to earth with Superman. Superman defeats Doomsday and becomes the earth's hero forever.
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I like your article... and it is plausible (because this is the superman fanboy's wet dream) however I think they should reboot it... just having smallville (not the tv series) come in as flashbacks of his origins (maybe even opening credits?) as for the storyline... we need some great baddies (doomsday, darkseid, parasite, bring back zod) bring superman back down to earth... Superman is not Jesus, have him have some flaws besides kryptonite, have him struggle with his humanity... just so you guys remember, when superman started (in the comics) he had all his powers except for flying, x-ray vision, and oh god I forget... I mean they had the guy eventually have little supermen shooting out of his fingers (ala throwing the S)... BRING IT BACK TO REALITY!!!!
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Then in a fourth movie, some Kryptonians could come to Earth to bring back Superman to their homeworld of New Krypton. These could be some of the prisoners in the planetary prison ring that could have had their capsules survive Krypton's explosion and have landed in different parts of different galaxies. These Kryptonians would band together and make a new home world their own, just like Krypton, and then search remaining galaxies for other survivors then finding Superman. He would leave and go to New Krypton, only to be confronted by Darkseid trying to take over the planet. Darkseid would take over and then Superman would band together with the other Kryptonians to free the planet. He would defeat Darkseid and later return to Earth, calling it his true home planet.
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I didn't say Returns didn't have its problems... STAR labs has researched the possibility of Supes and Lois having a child and it just doesn't work. largely, it was outside of the continuity of the comics and they took some liberties. Read action comics #1 and tell me todays Superman is true to the "source material", I have it... it aint.
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Great article!!!
A SUPERMAN CONTINUATION is a must!
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Batfan39 @ Nice WOLVIE costume dude!!
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I just don't want to see another Superman foils Lex's plan once again. I understand keeping him in the cartoons, but not in movies? With all the crimes under his belt, Lex should have already been put in the chair. It is time to move on, there are more supervillians in Smallville than there are in the Superman movies.
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Thanks LEEE I put a lot of work into that one
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oooh I got some info on the sequel for superman returns right here http://www.mysterchr.com/?p=933
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1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2011-01-25Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian"
Conductors: Masur, Kurt
Ensemble: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
In this performance Kurt Masur conducts the Gewandhaus Orchestra with works by Mendelssohn and Mussorgsky....continue...
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Felix Mendelssohn was a passionate Christian. He was also born a Jew. This film, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, tells the extraordinary story...continue...
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Carols from King's / Stephen Cleobury, King's College Choir [DVD]
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This DVD offers, for the first time, a sumptuous experience of the college's annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols....continue...
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Merry Christmas From Milan / Caballe, Bruson [DVD]
1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2008-10-28Works: Jules Massenet: La Vierge; Pietro Mascagni: Ave Maria; Messa di gloria; Gaetano Donizetti: Ave Maria, offertory for soprano, alto & strings; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor, K 427 (417a) "Gr...
Performers: Bruson, Renato; Caballe, Montserrat; Marti, Montserrat; Potenza, Rossana
Conductors: Rojatti, Ezio; Collado, José
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A beautiful Christmas concert filmed at the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. Conducted by Jose Collado and Ezio Rojatti, with performances by Montserrat Caballe,...continue...
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The Huberman Festival / Mehta, Israel Philharmonic [2 DVD]
2 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2007-06-26Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051; Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in B minor, Op. 3 no 10/RV 5...
Performers: Benyamini, Daniel; Gitlis, Ivry; Haendel, Ida; Mintz, Shlomo; Stern, Isaac; Zuckerman, Pinchas
Conductors: Mehta, Zubin
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These concerts feature Pinchas Zukerman, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Mintz, Henryk Szeryng, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel and Zubin Mehta with the Israel Philharmonic, performing...continue...
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Fifty families are needed to host high school-age students from France for three weeks this summer. One group comes for three weeks in July and another group for three weeks in August.
Kimberly Karver, a French and English teacher at Whitney High School, joined the American Discovery team last year. She helped find host families for 40 French teens ranging in age from 13 to 17 years of age. The students (host students and exchange students) take many trips to places such as San Francisco, Six Flags, Sunplash and more.
"I think hosting a foreign exchange student is a wonderful experience," Karver said. "Families benefit from the experience of hosting because they have the chance to get a new perspective on their own culture and beliefs by seeing them through the eyes of an outsider."
The French students have been studying English since kindergarten. The students are also fully insured and will have their own spending money. Host families will only need to provide students food, lodging and some transportation during their stay. The students are coming to California to experience life as a teen. They are also seeking an opportunity to practice their English skills.
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When the ThunderRidge band marched through the school's hallways last week, drumming up support for a basketball game against archrival Highlands Ranch, it wasn't the Grizzlies' varsity athletes being exhorted to victory, it was the school's Unified team, made up mostly of students with special needs.
"The whole week is huge, and we try to make this game just as important as our biggest varsity game," ThunderRidge athletic director Bob Nelson said. "We want all our kids to understand that our special-needs kids need to be recognized just as much as the varsity football or basketball player for what they do and how hard they're working."
ThunderRidge, Highlands Ranch and the other Colorado high schools participating in the Unified program, a branch of Special Olympics, have already been praised nationally for giving students with disabilities the opportunity to participate in athletics.
Those schools now find themselves far ahead of the curve.
The U.S. Department of Education on Jan. 25 recommended that public schools clarify their obligation to provide opportunities in athletics as part of the broader effort to avoid discriminating against disabled students.
"Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement, "and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court."
In that sense, the edict by the Department of Education's civil rights office immediately evoked the enactment of Title IX in 1972.
That landmark legislation ensures equal athletic opportunities for women. The law changed funding models from the grade school down the street to the most powerful college football programs in the nation, and is credited with helping shape the development of female leaders on and off the athletic field.
"It's about time," said Tim Elstad, director of student life and girls track coach at Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in Colorado Springs. "The focus has always been on Title IX and opportunities for women, but I've always felt they were overlooking kids with special needs."
Elstad, who is deaf, played quarterback for CSDB's football team. He said participating in sports helped him learn how to deal with the world outside school. The hope is that countless other disabled students will derive similar benefits, but right now, no one is certain where the new ruling will lead.
"Title IX continues to evolve after 40 years," Nelson said, "And so what this will ultimately look like will take some time to answer."
And because the Department of Education offered few specifics on what will be required of schools — or what it might take to implement the guidelines — many Colorado school districts are scrambling to figure out their response.
"I'm not sure we know yet where we are," said Bert Borgmann, assistant commissioner of the Colorado High School Activities Association. "In terms of implementation, we're a member-driven association, so the schools would have to come to us and ask us if they wanted to create, say, a state tennis championship for Unified kids. That would be a big process, involving lots of people and lots of kids.
"But the national federation for high schools supports this and we do too," he said. "We're looking forward to seeing how things work out."
During the state Class 4A/5A boys and girls basketball championships in Boulder next month, CHSAA is sponsoring exhibition games featuring Unified teams.
Cost implications
There are 340 CHSAA member schools and last year more than 132,000 students participated in sanctioned athletics, music, speech or leadership activities.
There are 20 Colorado schools, such as Arapahoe, ThunderRidge and Highlands Ranch, and 635 athletes participating in Unified sports programs this year.
Schools like ThunderRidge — which also has "no-cut" policies for a number of its teams including cross country and track — feel they already do a good job of offering opportunities to disabled students.
The question is, how much more will they have to do to meet any new guidelines, and if they are already ahead of the game, what will it take for the schools without Unified programs to catch up?
Denver Public Schools last week said it "celebrates the focus of equitable opportunities for students with disabilities," but is still trying to assess the logistical and cost implications of the recommendations.
"There's apprehension any time requirements are put on school districts without funding," ThunderRidge's Nelson said. "You have in the back of your mind, 'How am I going to make this work without additional dollars?' "
The guideline says schools must provide reasonable accommodations for disabled athletes — giving a visual cue for a deaf student at the start of a race, for example.
But it doesn't guarantee that such athletes will automatically be placed on competitive teams.
"Not every kid has the right to make our varsity basketball team," but it can't be assumed that because of a disability a student couldn't make a varsity team, Nelson said.
But there's no sense yet of how far schools will have to go to be in compliance.
Elstad offered the example of deaf runners in a relay race trying to see the starter. If CSDB is in lane 7 for a relay, and the starter is near lane 2 or 3, "my kid has to turn their head around to see (the starter) and that slows him down.
"The fairer thing to do would be to have the starter come closer to where my runners are," Elstad said, "but would schools make that accommodation? Or would they complain that the deaf students were getting special treatment?"
One runner on the CSDB team is blind. Elstad got an accommodation from the Black Forest League, in which the school competes, that allows the girl to run from lane 2 — with a guide-runner moving beside her in lane 1.
"It gives her a chance to compete and she feels wonderful about being on a team," CSDB athletic director Chris Nipper said. "But I wonder will public schools be able to do the same things?"
Equal footing
Elstad muses that a school could decide to make an accommodation — say providing an interpreter for a deaf student — if that athlete is capable of helping a varsity team achieve success as a starter, but perhaps make a different choice if he or she were at the end of the bench.
Situations like that make Nelson wonder if CHSAA will have to step in and make sure all schools are on equal footing when it comes to implementing — and enforcing — the federal guidelines.
"Once the information is provided to schools, at some point you're going to have to implement programs," he said. "There's a chance the government could say 'You have to give them equal practice time.'
"We don't do that all the time," he said. "The Unified kids don't practice every day of the week, like the football team, or basketball team or wrestling team.
"So what if you have to do that? It stresses out the facilities a little more," Nelson said, "but if I'm told that's what I have to do, then I'm going to embrace the opportunity."
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Sierra College seeks to ensure future vital role
By: Jenifer Gee, Journal Staff Writer
Amid expansion plans at one university and a countywide effort to welcome another, officials at Sierra College are hoping they're not left out of plans to make Placer County a higher education destination. "There's just a huge disconnect between our impact in this community and the energy our civic leaders are devoting to making sure our future is as strong and as viable as that of Cal State Sacramento and a university like Drexel," said Leo Chavez, superintendent/president of Sierra College. At a July 8 Placer County Board of Supervisors meeting, Sierra College trustee Bill Martin addressed the college's current and future issues. He said the college expects its student population to grow to 40,000 by 2035. However, it only receives about $3,000 per student. That amount is small in comparison to the $75,000 per student after about $500 million is invested in Drexel University. Drexel is a four-year private university based in Philadelphia in talks to build a campus in Placer County. Martin also pointed out that "there are no viable plans to finance the renovation of the 50-year-old Rocklin facility and certainly none to expand to meet future enrollment needs." Placer County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jim Holmes said he agrees "whole-heartedly" with Martin that Sierra College lacks the funding it needs. "It's been neglected," Holmes said of the college. "It needs a lot of polish." Holmes said the board is keeping the lines of communication open with Sierra College. There are talks to help the college purchase a piece of property in west Placer County to help the school expand. "There is opportunity out there," Holmes said. In the meantime, Chavez said the college is working well with officials from Drexel University. The university recently announced plans to open a graduate center in Sacramento. The graduate center will serve as an important indicator as to whether the university will pursue plans to build a four-year campus in west Roseville. The site would allow for 600 acres of campus and an additional 563 acres to build a community to help finance the campus. The Tsakopoulos, Cummings and Prim families and their partners donated the approximate 1,100 acres to bring a private university to the Sacramento area. Chavez added that he has spoken often with Drexel University heads and said Sierra College can offer a pool of students to the institution. "I don't think Drexel will have anything other than a positive impact on the college," Chavez said. Sierra College officials as well as those from William Jessup University, which was the first four-year private college built in the county four years ago, say they are happy at the prospect of another university coming to the area. "We'd be thrilled to have a greater presence of higher education in the area," said Joe Womack, vice president for university advancement at William Jessup University. "I think it would just add to the opportunities in South Placer and the Sacramento region." Tobey Oxholm, Drexel University executive vice president and chief of staff, shared that sentiment. He said Drexel is based in Philadelphia, which is a city with six major universities and about 80 in the surrounding region. Oxholm said that Drexel works well with those colleges and distinguishes itself from the others with its unique programs. He said when it comes to possibly building a campus in Placer County, the school looks at it as an opportunity to enhance the area. "I really think our motto has been to increase the pie, not divide it into smaller slices," Oxholm said. "We're really quite optimistic we'll be adding value to the higher education community and making the region even better for higher education than it is now." Holmes said that while the board is excited at the prospect of expanding higher education in the county, the public's support will be critical in the growth of new and existing college facilities. "It's a shame Placer County hasn't been behind Sierra College," Holmes said. "The school has gone out to bonds several times but the community hasn't stepped up." Holmes added with the current economy and gas prices, local higher education institutions are at a premium. "We're excited about Drexel," Holmes said. "But let's not lose sight of the community college we have that's been such a vital part of the community." The Journal's Jenifer Gee can be reached at email@example.com or post a comment at auburnjournal.com.


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Simulating the Art of Swing Bowling in Cricket
Phil Kinnane | November 5, 2015
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, but it's also considered an art. This is seen in the technical abilities required by the batsman to protect his wicket and go on to score runs. It's also due to the type of bowling used to get the batsman out, which depends on a myriad of physical factors. Here, we investigate one of these techniques — the art of swing bowling.
Fabio Bocchi | October 14, 2015
As a technical support engineer, one of the most common technical questions I receive is: "How can I compute the mass conservation of a fluid flow simulation or the energy balance of a conjugate heat transfer simulation?" This is often requested to investigate and ensure a simulation's accuracy. Here, I will demonstrate how to perform these calculations in COMSOL Multiphysics and introduce some of the predefined variables available for postprocessing the energy rate terms of the energy balance equation.
Brianne Costa | September 9, 2015
Fluid dampers have a range of uses, from stabilizing skyscrapers to controlling fluid flow in microflow devices. Through a process called viscous heating, these dampers are able to dissipate mechanical energy into heat. Too much heat can cause damage to the damper, so it's important to understand the viscous heating process when optimizing your fluid damper designs.
Bridget Cunningham | April 27, 2015
Over the years, the development of sensor technology has enabled more accurate measurements of fluid flow. One such device is the thermal flow sensor. This instrument is valued for its simple design and implementation as well as its high degree of accuracy. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, a team of researchers from the University of Cambridge designed a 3D model to analyze the dynamics of a thermal flow sensor, a component of a flow meter.
Brianne Costa | April 3, 2015
As the burning of fossil fuels becomes a more pressing issue, manufacturers are introducing more fuel efficient cars to the market. One main contributor to fuel burn is the car's aerodynamic drag. Complexly shaped, cars are very challenging to model and it's difficult to quantify the aerodynamic drag computationally. The Ahmed body is a benchmark model widely used in the automotive industry for validating simulation tools. The Ahmed body shape is simple enough to model, while maintaining car-like geometry features.
Brianne Costa | March 24, 2015
Try pouring some wine into a glass. Don't drink it yet — this is a scientific experiment. When you hold up your glass, you'll see what look like teardrops running down the sides. These tears of wine are caused by the Marangoni effect, which describes a mass transfer along the surface of two fluid phases caused by surface tension gradients along the interface between the two phases (for example liquid and vapor).
Bridget Cunningham | September 15, 2015
Previously on the blog, we introduced you to the constructal law, the law of physics that accounts for the natural tendency of designs to evolve freely over time to flow more easily. As research has been conducted to support this pattern of design evolution, an even greater phenomenon has come to light: Humans and technology are one species, evolving together.
Peter Lyu | June 16, 2015
In fluid flow simulations, it is often important to evaluate the forces that the fluid exerts onto the body — for example, lift and drag forces on an airfoil or a car. Engineers can use these body forces to quantify the efficiency and aerodynamic performance of designs. Today, we will discuss different ways to compute lift and drag in COMSOL Multiphysics.
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Journal bearings are lubricated components that support a rotating shaft. Cavitation affects the performance of these bearings and must be considered during the design stage. Here, I'll explain what journal bearings are and why predicting cavitation is important, as well as share an industry example with you.


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The Main Library's Reserve service allows instructors to set aside books and articles for class use, or make articles or book excerpts available online through Blackboard.


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EDT 574: Philosophy of Education
Synonym:63843 (for web registration)
Faculty:Thomas Julius
Semester:Fall 2009
Meeting Schedule:Fridays 9/4 - 12/18 (1:30PM-3:59PM)
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and restricted to Integrated Learning Elementary and Early Childhood certification students through August 13, open to other Education students on August 14.
An evolving philosophy of education can guide decision making, help determine methodology, and become a source of inspiration and renewal for the teacher. This course will focus on developing a personal philosophy of education through a process of research, reflection and discussion. We will survey major changes in educational thought from 500 B.C. to the present. This historical perspective will form the basis for the students? personal search for a philosophy of education appropriate for today.


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There are two University holidays during this period: Memorial Day, Monday, May 30; and Independence Day, Monday, July 4; the CITES groups are closed on these holidays (except for IT Pro Services, which will be on call for emergencies).
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Rare book collections
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives houses over 35,000 volumes reflecting an evolving history of collecting at UMass Amherst. Beginning in the late 1860s with a focus on agriculture and the natural sciences, SCUA has developed into a resource for the study of regional and local history in New England, emphasizing our varied cultural, social, religious, and political histories.
Beyond New England, SCUA has built strength in several distinct areas, ranging from the history of social change to the extraordinary collection of Japanese rarities collected by the geologist Benjamin Smith Lyman during the Meiji era. Other noteworthy collections include those pertaining to the culture of the Cold War: a growing collection of books printed in East Germany and one of the largest collections of materials in the United States from the Solidarity movement in Poland.
All books and periodicals held by SCUA are cataloged in the Library's online catalog and summary descriptions of most major book collections, but not individual titles, are included in SCUA's own online catalog, UMarmot.
Selected areas of collecting interest:
Agriculture, horticulture, natural history
The library holds key works in apiculture, entomology, gardening, landscape design, organic agriculture, pomology, sustainability, and viticulture, with numerous works in animal husbandry. Materials date back to the 16th century, however the strength of the collections lies in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Cookery in New England
The collections of Beatrice A. McIntosh, Athena Savas, and Lynette Foucher, among others, include books, pamphlets, and ephemera relating to the culinary history of New England, including many thousands of cookbooks published by church and community organizations.
European history and culture
Diverse collections ranging from materials on Revolutionary-era Europe, 1789-1848 (the Binet and Brabançonne Collections); Anglo-American Political Economy; twentieth century German history (the Harold Gordon Collection on the Interwar period and the Hans Joachim Ring Collection on East German cinema); and Communist-era Poland (Basia Jakubowska Schlatner Solidarity Collection).
Gay and Lesbian Literature
The centerpiece extensive of our holdings is the collection of gay rights pioneer Barbara Gittings and her partner, Kay Tobin Lahusen, which includes books on the history of homosexuality in America, works by and about gay writers, gay activism, and related topics.
Literary collections
Books by and about Robert Francis, Archibald MacLeish, William Manchester, William Lederer, and the Broadside Press, among others, as well as the poetry libraries of Francis, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Halley. Although the literary collections focus largely on New England writers, SCUA houses fine collections of the works of William Morris and William Butler Yeats, signed first editions of works by Thomas Mann, and collections of French and Scottish writers.
New England history and culture
Local and regional histories, novels, and other writing about Massachusetts from the eighteenth century to the present. These include an array of election, ordination, installation, dedication, fast-day, mission, farewell, and funeral sermons; Fourth of July orations; and addresses to or by benevolent, cultural, and civic organizations in the Commonwealth. SCUA also collects works printed in small towns and rural districts of Massachusetts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Social change
Valuable collections for the history of antislavery in New England and politics of the left. The John P. Roche and Steven Siteman Collections focus on the American left from the late 19th century through the 1950s, with some European materials and materials from the political right.
Akin, Ebenezer, Jr. (Fairhaven, Mass.)
Ebenezer Akin Account Book, 1842-1869.
Call no.: MS 220 bd
Businessman, town clerk, owner or part-owner of many ships, merchant, lawyer, and involved citizen in the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Includes activities as town clerk, accounts for ships he may have owned, entries made as the executor of several estates, accounts of expenditures for clothing and incidentals, and accounts of lot purchases and loans. Also contains genealogical information about the Blossom family of Bridgewater and the family of Benjamin and Eunice Akin.
- Akin, Benjamin, 1715-1802
- Akin, Eunice
- Blossom family
- Clothing and dress--Prices--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Fairhaven (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Fairhaven (Mass.)--Politics and government--19th century
- Hesper (Bark)
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Napoleon (Ship)
- Shipowners--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- Shipping--Massachusetts--Fairhaven
- William Rotch (Ship)
- Winthrop (Bark)
- Akin, Ebenezer, 1816-
Types of material
- Account books
- Genealogies
- Inventories of decedents estates
Bailey, Ebenezer
Ebenezer Bailey Papers, 1852-1882.
Call no.: MS 448
Ebenezer Bailey was a wholesale shoe purchaser and distributor from Massachusetts. The collection comprises just over 100 items, the bulk of which are receipts for the purchase and sale of shoes and slippers, covering the period from 1852 to 1882.
- Business records--Massachusetts
- Dearborn, J. J
- Lynn (Mass.)--History
- Shoe industry--Massachusetts--Lynn
- Shoe industry--New England--History--19th century
- Bailey, Ebenezer
Types of material
- Receipts (Financial records)
Black, Joseph Laurence, 1962-
Joseph Laurence Black History of the Book Collection, 1789-1964.
Call no.: RB 023
A scholar of early modern British literature, Joe Black received his BA and PhD from the University of Toronto and taught for several years at the University of Tennessee Knoxville before joining the English faculty at UMass Amherst in 1994. Rooted in the history of the book, his research on seventeenth-century literature has examined the intersection between writing and the material and social context of production as well as the dialogue between print and manuscript culture.
The Black collection is an eclectic assemblage of American imprints designed to assist study and instruction in the history of the book. The collection includes two long runs of pulp novels, Beadle's Frontier Series and the American Revolution-inspired Liberty Boys of '76, examples of almanacs, prompt books, and works form the early national period in publishers' bindings.
- Books--History--United States
- Dime novels, American
Types of material
- Almanacs
- Scrapbooks
Campbell, Sadie
Sadie Campbell Papers, 1812-2002.
Call no.: MS 439
A housewife, mother and active community member, Sadie Campbell was born in 1881 and lived at 1 Depot Street in Cheshire, Massachusetts for most of her life until she died in 1971. Sadie was closely tied to the Cheshire community where she had a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and was active in a a number of organizations, such as: the Cheshire Ladies Reading Club, the Merry Wives of Cheshire Shakespeare Club, and the Cheshire Cash Tearoom.
The collection documents three generations of a western Massachusetts family. The variety and nature of the materials in this collection offer a good view into the local and social history of western Massachusetts through the lives of Sadie Campbell and her family.
- Cheshire (Mass.)--History
- Cheshire Cash Tearoom
- Family--Massachusetts--History--19th century
- Family--Massachusetts--History--20th century
- Housekeeping--Massachusetts--Cheshire
- Housewives--Massachusetts--Cheshire
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--19th century
- Merry Wives of Cheshire Shakespeare Club
- Small business--Massachusetts
- Tyrell, Augustus
- Williams Manufacturing Company
- Women--Societies and clubs--History--19th century
- Campbell, Sadie
Types of material
- Account books
- Invitations
- Letters (Correspondence)
- Pamphlets
- Photographs
- Recipes
Clark, Henry James, 1826-1873
Henry James Clark Papers, 1865-1872.
Call no.: FS 048
The first professor of Natural History at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Henry James Clark, had one of the briefest and most tragic tenures of any member of the faculty during the nineteenth century. Having studied under Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at Harvard, Clark became an expert microscopist and student of the structure and development of flagellate protozoans and sponges. Barely a year after joining the faculty at Massachusetts Agricultural College at its first professor of Natural History, Clark died of tuberculosis on July 1, 1873.
A small remnant of a brief, but important career in the natural sciences, the Henry James Clark Papers consist largely of obituary notices and a fraction of his published works. The three manuscript items include two letters from Clark's widow to his obituarist and fellow naturalist, Alpheus Hyatt (one including some minor personal memories), and a contract to build a house on Pleasant Street in Amherst.
- Developmental biology
- Massachusetts Agricultural College--Faculty
- Massachusetts Agricultural College. Department of Veterinary Science
- Protozoans
- Clark, Henry James, 1826-1873
- Clark, Mary Young Holbrook
- Hyatt, Alpheus, 1838-1902
Types of material
- Contracts
- Letters (Correspondence)
Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886
William Smith Clark Papers, 1814-2003 (Bulk: 1844-1886).
Call no.: RG 003/1 C63
Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1826, William Smith Clark graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and went on to teach the natural sciences at Williston Seminary until 1850, when he continued his education abroad, studying chemistry and botany at the University of Goettingen, earning his Ph.D in 1852. From 1852 to 1867 he was a member of Amherst College's faculty as a Professor of Chemistry, Botany, and Zoology. As a leading citizen of Amherst, Clark was a strong advocate for the establishment of the new agricultural college, becoming one of the founding members of the college's faculty and in 1867, the year the college welcomed its first class of 56 students, its President. During his presidency, he pressured the state government to increase funding for the new college and provide scholarships to enable poor students, including women, to attend. The college faced economic hardship early in its existence: enrollment dropped in the 1870s, and the college fell into debt. He is noted as well for helping to establish an agricultural college at Sapporo, Japan, and building strong ties between the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Hokkaido. After Clark was denied a leave of absence in 1879 to establish a "floating college" — a ship which would carry students and faculty around the world — he resigned.
The Clark Papers include materials from throughout his life, including correspondence with fellow professors and scientists, students in Japan, and family; materials relating to his Civil War service in the 21st Massachusetts Infantry; photographs and personal items; official correspondence and memoranda; published articles; books, articles, television, and radio materials relating to Clark, in Japanese and English; and materials regarding Hokkaido University and its continuing relationship with the University of Massachusetts.
- Agricultural colleges--Japan--History
- Agricultural colleges--Massachusetts--History
- Agriculturists--Japan
- Agriculturists--Massachusetts
- Amherst (Mass.)--History
- Amherst College--Faculty
- Amherst College--Students--Correspondence
- Hokkaido (Japan)--History
- Hokkaid¯o Daigaku--History
- Hokkaid¯o Teikoku Daigaku--History
- Japan--Relations--United States
- Massachusetts Agricultural College--History
- Sapporo N¯ogakk¯o--History
- Sapporo N¯ogakk¯o. President
- T¯ohoku Teikoku Daigaku. N¯oka Daigaku--History
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States--Relations--Japan
- Universität Göttingen--Students--Correspondence
- Clark, William Smith, 1826-1886
- Massachusetts Agricultural College. President
Types of material
- Drawings
- Photographs
- Realia
- Scrapbooks
Coffin, Robert L.
Robert L. Coffin Ornithological Journal, 1912-1922.
Call no.: MS 593 bd
Robert L. Coffin (1889-1976) began a long association with the Massachusetts Agricultural College when he arrived on campus in 1912 to begin work as an assistant photographer for the East Experiment Station. His skill as a technical photographer and his artistic eye, however, soon made him a valuable commodity on campus and within a few years of his arrival, Coffin had branched out to work for a wide range of departments across campus and, in the late 1920s, for the US Department of Agriculture in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well. An avid birder and naturalist, Coffin was particularly known for his nature photography, using a battery of different cameras to capture everything from scenic vistas to photomicrographs. Although he established a commercial photographic studio in Amherst in 1931, Coffin continued to accept a wide range of assignments at UMass, earning recognition as the unofficial campus photographer. He remained active almost to the time of his death in 1976 at the age of 86.
Containing the meticulously detailed records of an avid birder, the Coffin journal contains records of sightings and first and last occurrences of birds observed in the years 1912 and 1917-1922. The records in the journal reflect Coffin's many birding trips in western Massachusetts, mostly in the Connecticut River Valley, however the journal also contains records from the Swift River Valley, the Harvard Forest, the Boston area, and the Connecticut coast. In a few cases, Coffin recorded the numbers of birds observed.
- Bird watching--Massachusetts
- Birds--Massachusetts
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Coffin, Robert L
Types of material
- Field notes
Currier, W.A.
W.A. Currier Daybooks, 1865-1869.
Call no.: MS 213
Hardware store merchant, stove dealer, and tinsmith from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Daybooks include documentation of customers, items purchased, prices paid, and transactions relating to Currier's rag trade.
- Adams, George
- Bradford (Haverhill, Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Contractors--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Daniels, W. F
- Gildea, Peter
- Griffin, Samuel
- Hardware stores--Massachusetts--Haverhill--Finance--History--19th century
- Haverhill (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Kimball, O
- O'Brine, J. W
- Rags--Prices--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Stacy, W. P
- Stove industry and trade--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Stoves--Repairing--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Tinsmiths--Massachusetts--Haverhill--History--19th century
- Currier, W. A
Types of material
- Account books
- Daybooks
Dall Family
Dall Family Correspondence, 1810-1843.
Call no.: MS 282
Chiefly correspondence from various Dall family members in Boston, Massachusetts, particularly father William Dall, Revolutionary War veteran, merchant, businessman and former Yale College writing master, to sons William and James Dall in Baltimore, Maryland. Letters of son James Dall, then a student at Harvard University, provide accounts of Boston political and cultural activities of the time.
The correspondence documents the daily changes in the life of a merchant's family in the early 19th century, reflecting anxiety over trade restrictions, embargoes, and other economic disruptions resulting from the War of 1812. The elder Dall (William 3rd) and much of his family lived in Boston, but two sons lived in Baltimore. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to the younger son, William 4th, who was then apprenticed to a Baltimore merchant. The letters of son James Dall, then a student at Harvard University, provide accounts of Boston political and cultural activities.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Biography
- Baltimore (Md.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Boston (Mass.)--Biography
- Boston (Mass.)--Economic conditions--19th century
- Boston (Mass.)--Intellectual life--19th century
- Boston (Mass.)--Politics and government--19th century
- Dall family
- Family--United States--History--19th century
- Harvard University--Students
- Merchants--Maryland--Baltimore
- Merchants--Massachusetts--Boston
- Dall, James, 1781-1863
- Dall, John Robert, 1798-1851
- Dall, John, 1791-1852
- Dall, Joseph, 1801-1840
- Dall, Maria, 1783-1836
- Dall, Rebecca Keen
- Dall, Sarah Keen, 1798-1878
- Dall, William, 1753-1829
- Dall, William, 1794 or 5-1875


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August 29, 2012
We are on the brink of a three day holiday weekend and the state is in damage control. Florida was spared the wrath of Hurricane Isaac and now, Governor Rick Scott is on a mission to let travelers know Florida is open for business.
Isaac passed by Florida leaving pockets of flooding and the state mostly intact. As the storm shifted west, Governor Rick Scott began altering his message to fend off another disaster; a Labor Day weekend without travelers.
"I want to make sure everybody knows this weekend Florida will be opened for business. We are going to have a great tourism weekend this weekend. It's going to be sunny. We are going to have great fishing. Amusement Parks will be open," said Scott.
AAA doesn't expect many cancelations. And since Isaac tracked west, calls to their office have picked up.
"It hasn't put a dent in business at all. People are still traveling," said Brenda Smith, a spokeswoman with AAA.
With Isaac no longer a threat to Florida, the new problem is what it left in its path. More than 90 percent of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico shut down and gas prices in Florida have shot up.
Statewide the average price of a gallon of gas rose eight cent this past week, and calls to the Attorney General's price gouging hotline are pouring in.
"We are in the process of reviewing all 124 as they come in. About a third of those have been declared, so far, to be unfounded," said Attorney General Spokesman John Lucas.
Gas prices are expected to stay high through the next two weeks. The spike will impact tourists driving to Florida, but AAA says it won't deter travelers from coming, only how much they spend.
Scott traveled to the Florida Keys today as part of his mission to let tourists know the state is ready for visitors.


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Cyrus Vance
Cyrus, now that you've helped the VP cover up a murder, what's next? Even you are running out of schemes. On the other hand, we've got to admit we love all the shenanigans your character goes through just to remain the man that's next to the man. We can only hope you don't get yourself killed anytime soon.


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Institutionalization is a term used to describe the process of converting something into an institution, or establishing institutions.
It is most often used in a political sense to apply to the organization of governmental institutions within the framework most often of development. During the period of the industrial revolution in Europe many countries went through a period of 'institutionalisation', which saw a large expansion and development of the role of government within society, particularly into areas seen previously as the private sphere. Institutionalisation is also seen as being an important part of process of modernisation in developing countries, involving again the expansion and improved organisation of government structures.
The word is also used to mean making something an established custom or an accepted part of the structure of a large organization or society. This meaning is correlated to the idea of improved organisation above.
negative historical connetations derived from British history Institutionalisation is sometimes used as a term to describe both the treatment of, and damage caused to, vulnerable human beings by the oppressive or corrupt application of inflexible systems of social, medical, or legal controls by publicly owned or not-for-profit organisations originally created for beneficial purposes and intents.
Some modern thinkers argue that many people who work within large established organisations can become Institutionalised. The supportive structure and routines can lead to a narrowing or reduction in individual critical judgement and reasoning. This accepting mental outlook, can lead to oversight and slowed reaction to changes outside the organisation thus hindering adaptation to new circumstances.
Public and civic organisations acquired great authority and wealth during and in the century following the Industrial Revolution in the UK and other rapidly developing nation states. The growing demands of industry for high volume labour supplies in the nineteenth century also created an ethos in which the needs and rights of the unproductive or vulnerable individual were deemed less important than the needs of society as a whole. Large numbers of beggars and high rates of crime and disease were a consequence of the massive social and economic changes experienced in the period following the battle of Waterloo. Social unrest from the Peterloo riots onwards resulted in a significant Chartist challenge to established authority on the streets of major cities like Sheffield, Manchester, and Glasgow in the 1840s.
During the period from 1850 - 1930 many types of institutions were created by public subscription, parliament and local authorities to provide housing, healthcare, education, and financial support for individuals in need. At the upper end of the scale, public boarding schools such as Eton and Harrow were founded or greatly extended to meet the growing demand for the education of the children of those in colonial service overseas. These were seen as models of social improvement, and many inferior imitations followed for the lower social orders. Virtually every borough in the UK was required by legislation to make provision for paupers, criminals, orphans, disabled war veterans, older people with no means of support, deaf and blind schools, and lifelong asylums for those with learning disabilities or mental health problems.
Distinguishing features of such institutions were:
- communal dormitories
- communal kitchens and dining facilities
- rural, isolated locations
- restrictions on personal liberty and possessions
- uniforms
- oppressive, authoritarian regimes
- strict systems of rules and codes of conduct
- boards of visitors or trustees, usually drawn from the ranks of the upper middle classes, the so called "great and good"
- hierarchical systems of management
- compulsory religious attendance
- involvement of inmates as unpaid or poorly-rewarded labour in return for small privileges
- widespread abuse of human rights, dignity
- rigid separation of the sexes
- excessive reliance on medication and physical restraints
Many of these organisations, whilst originally expressing idealistic aspirations and aims, became "total" institutions within a generation or two of their foundation, providing in some cases cradle to grave housing, occupation and social control. Inmates were often trapped in a system that provided no obvious route of escape or promotion. As late as the 1950s, in Britain, several hundred thousand people lived in Victorian asylums and "colonies".
The dangers of institutions were chronicled and criticised by reformers almost since their foundation. Charles Dickens was an outspoken and high profile early critic, and several of his novels, in particular Oliver Twist and Hard Times demonstrate his insight into the damage that institutions can do to human beings.
Enoch Powell, when Minister for Health in the early 1960s, was a later opponent who was appalled by what he witnessed on his visits to the asylums, and his famous "water tower" speech in 1961 called for the closure of all NHS asylums and their replacement by wards in general hospitals.
"There they stand, isolated, majestic, imperious, brooded over by the gigantic water-tower and chimney combined, rising unmistakable and daunting out of the countryside - the asylums which our forefathers built with such immense solidity to express the notions of their day. Do not for a moment underestimate their powers of resistance to our assault. Let me describe some of the defences which we have to storm." [1]
Scandal after scandal followed, with many high profile public inquiries. These involved the exposure of abuses such as unscientific surgical techniques such as lobotomy, the experimental use of powerful drugs such as LSD, and the widespread neglect and abuse of vulnerable patients in the USA and Europe. The growing anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 1970s led in Italy to the first successful legislative challenge to the authority of the mental institutions, culminating in their closure.
During the 1980s and 1990s the hospital population started to fall rapidly, mainly because of the deaths of long-term inmates. Significant efforts were made to re-house large numbers of former residents in a variety of suitable or otherwise alternative accommodation. The first 1,000+ bed hospital to close was Darenth Park in Kent, swiftly followed by many more across the UK. The haste of these closures, driven by the Conservative governments led by Margaret Thatcher and John Major, led to considerable criticism in the press, as some individuals slipped through the net into homelessness or were discharged to poor quality private sector mini-institutions.
The resistance of many institutions to change predicted by Enoch Powell has continued into the 21st century, and there are still several thousand people permanently resident in the dwindling asylums and long stay hospital replacement campuses scattered across the UK.
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