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Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (US - BD)
Gabe looks into the last Futurama adventure ever... until they're renewed
The Planet Express gang is back for one last adventure. While assisting Amy Wong's parents in destroying the surface of Mars to build a bigger and better Las Vegas (New Vegas), Fry has a chunk of metal embedded in his brain, allowing him to read thoughts. Meanwhile, the process of saving endangered Mars species from the Wong's bulldozers whets Leela's appetite for adventure and she finds herself joining an all female activist group. All the while Bender Rodriguez finds various ways to make money and further his own legend.
It comes to an end—again. Futurama was given a second chance through a series of four straight to video movies, and this is the last one. The first movie was Bender's Big Score, and it was a surprisingly potent mix of comedy and poignancy. It was also a perfect end to the series. The second film, The Beast with a Billion Backs was big on ideas, but low on execution. The third film, Bender's Game, played like a good, long episode, but didn't have a lot of staying power. So what does Into the Wild Green Yonder hold for fans? Pretty much more of the same.
Wild Green Yonder would've made a nice two-parter during the original series run, but it definitely does not have the scope or closure needed to end such an epic series. The character moments feel dropped for fans' sake, like odd afterthoughts. The last three films in the series all reek of the kind of uncaring second generation creative team, even though we know the series creators are still writing. Perhaps there was a fear that Fox wouldn't actually give them their second, third, and fourth movies, and threw all their big emotional guns into the first movie.
This movie holds together better as a single story than both Billion Backs and Bender's Game. Like Big Score it takes the story about twenty minutes to really pick up, but when everything falls into place the story is pretty solid. Unfortunately, there are fewer laugh out loud moments in this movie than any of the others, though I suppose the overall amusement level is higher than that of Billion Backs. The situations are pretty familiar (Fry being an underground group's final hope to save the universe, Amy's parents raping the Martian environment, Leela's love of nature getting the better of her, Bender coldly taking advantage of his friends), even a little tired, but the overall story is pretty solid, and it features some great series in-jokes.
Into the Wild Green Yonder features some of the film series' more outrageous new set and lighting designs, especially the stuff the Wong family builds on Mars, such as their New Vegas Casinos, and their super large mini-golf set ups. Futurama has always been a particular colourful series, but this finale (if we're considering it one long episode) may be the most flamboyant overall. This is my first time seeing anything Futurama in high definition, which comes as a particularly big visual shock after getting pixilated, dull, burned, single layer DVD's from Fox to review. The clarity doesn't really surprise me, but it's still pretty sumptuous. The hand drawn aspect of the show is much more obvious, and thus the digital 3D elements don't blend as well as they do in standard definition, even if the technology has improved in the last eight years. The colours are beautifully rendered, and rock solid. The only real shortcoming is a slight issue with edge enhancement on the hard black lines.
Thanks to Fox's lame burned disc screeners, I've only heard these Futurama movies in compressed Dolby Digital 5.1, so the DTS-HD Master Audio upgrade is pretty extreme. It helps matters that Into the Wild Green Yonder features a really swash buckling score, and I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) the most aggressive surround effects in the series' history. There is very, very little wasted space on the track, which is usually swimming it at least one surround effect, even during dialogue centred moments. The action scenes, especially the space chase, are quite aggressive, though possibly not as busy as the space battle in the first film. Christopher Tying's score, which features many of the standard series themes, is pretty impressive, enveloping the film with subtle Philip Glass like beauty, and John Williams like excitement. Also listen for Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane singing the hell out of the opening title.
Things start with another fun loving Futurama audio commentary. I've now watched every single episode of Futurama with an audio commentary playing. How sad. Anyway, this is another fine example of a fine cast and crew creating 90 minutes of fine entertainment. Participants this time around include producers David X Cohen, Matt Groening, Michael Rowe, Patric Verrone, and Lee Supercinski, actors John DiMaggio and Maurice Lamarche, and director Peter Avanzino. Subject matter includes the (then) upcoming presidential election, in-jokes, of screen character histories, writer's strikes, and everyone's want to make more episodes. On Blu-ray we are given the option of watching the commentators do their commentating.
After you watch the storyboard animatic for the first third of the movie, you'll can move on to 'Docudramarama', a sort of making-of mocumentary staring Lauren Tom . The joke is that Tom (the voice of Amy) does all the writing, acting, animation, composing, and sound effects work, along with a good luck kiss from Tom. At only five minutes, it's an adorable little joke. This is followed by 'Louder Louder', a two minute look behind the scenes of Penn Jillette's recording session, and 'Matt Groening and David X Cohen in Space!', about four and a half minutes of footage of the show's two head producers taking a zero gravity plane trip, commentated on by the participants. These brief featurettes are finished with 'How to Draw Futurama in 10 Very Difficult Steps', a companion piece to the extra of the same name that was featured on the last DVD/Blu-ray.
Under the title of 'Golden Stinkers' are five deleted scenes. Some of the scenes are mostly finished animation, while others are presented as storyboards. The sound is a mix of temporary effects and finished dialogue tracks. The scenes are put in their proper context, and run a total of just under three minutes.
Things are finished up (for good?) with more 3D model wraparounds with animator commentary, 'Zap Brannigans Guide to Making Love at a Woman', a short featuring various animation from the series set to Zap's dialogue on the subject of picking up women, and 'Bender's Movie-Theater Etiquette', a new, roughly animated short.
With a little bit of editing and a few factoid omissions we could just consider Bender's Big Score the series finale, and these other movies (including Into the Wild Green Yonder) could be a series of long, decent episodes. I have, as most do, the feeling that this isn't actually the end of the Futurama for real, but just in case, it might be better to pretend they went out on a high note. Seeing the series in hi-def with DTS-HD surround is a thrill and a half, and I'd like them to re-release Bender's Big Score in the format.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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On a related note, my favourite Futurama line ever has to be: 'Oh no no, I'm just some guy. Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!'
Now come on. This was much more connected to the beginings of the series and had a better ending than BBS. BBS had a much more dire cliffhanger where this... not to spoil anything... well it's got more of a warm fuzzy end.
The first half of this movie was easily some of the funniest stuff I've seen recently. The second half, however, was just incredibly dull and packed with bad jokes. Futurama is dead, but if I know Fox right, they'll keep whipping the dead horse for a few seasons more.
This comes out here in Oz next week. Good or ill, I'll be snapping it up, but I'm sure its not the end for Futurama. Great review.
I hope there is more of Futurama. Now I need to wtaqch this movie. Thanks for the review, Gabe.
you're not alone, i've listened to every commentary too. well not this one obviously but i will once i get it. so fear not.
and its only 4 seasons and 4 movies so it isnt so bad. i've also listened to every commentarty for the 11 simpsons dvd sets so you're good. lol
and its only 4 seasons and 4 movies so it isnt so bad. i've also listened to every commentarty for the 11 simpsons dvd sets so you're good. lol
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Disc Details
Release Date: 24th February 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Portuguese and Spanish
Extras: Audio & Video Commentary, Storyboard Animatics, Deleted Scenes, 'How to Draw Futurama', 'Matt Groening and David X Cohen in Space', 'Benders Movie Theatre Etiquette', 'Zap Brannigans Guide To Making Love At A Woman', 'Docoramarama'
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Peter Avanzino
Cast: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John Di Maggio, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr
Length: 89 minutes
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PennDOT: Work to begin Monday on Route 119 Elk Run Bridge in Jefferson Co.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Residents of Punxsutawney and motorists who travel on Route 119 will benefit by the replacement of the bridge carrying Route 119 over Elk Run in Jefferson County.
This structurally deficient bridge was built in 1929 and carries 11,607 vehicles per day.
Beginning the week of March 18, daylight flagging operations will be in place on Route 119 between Clark Street and Orchard Street. Congestion and delays are possible in the work zone area; please be patient and allow extra time for your travel.
The project includes the replacement of the bridge on Route 119 and roadway improvements at the intersection of Routes 119 and 310, including left turn lanes.
PennDOT reminds motorists to be alert to changing conditions and to pay attention to flaggers in the work zone.
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A synovial biopsy is the removal of a piece of tissue lining a joint for examination. The tissue is called the synovial membrane.
Alternative Names
Biopsy - synovial membrane
How the test is performed
The test is done in the operating room during anarthroscopy.
The health care provider will inject a numbing medicine (local anesthetic) into the area. An instrument called a trocar is inserted into the joint space. This tool helps push fluid in and out of the area. A biopsy grasper is inserted through the trocar and turned to cut out a tissue segment.
The tools are removed.A bandage is applied.
How to prepare for the test
Tell your health care provider:
- If you are pregnant
- If you ever had a problem with anesthesia
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drug allergies
- If you have bleeding problems
- What medications you are taking (including any herbal medicines and supplements)
How the test will feel
With the local anesthetic, you will feel a prick and a burning sensation. As the trocar is inserted, there will be some discomfort.
Why the test is performed
Synovial biopsy helps diagnose
Normal Values
The synovial membrane structure is normal.
What abnormal results mean
Synovial biopsy may identify the following conditions:
Coccidioidomycosis(a fungal infection) Fungal arthritis
- Gout
Hemochromatosis(abnormal accumulation of iron deposits) Tuberculosis
- Synovial
The test may help diagnose
What the risks are
There is a very slight chance of infection and bleeding. Rarely, there is a chance of the needle striking a nerve or blood vessel.
Special considerations
You will need to keep the wound clean and dry until your doctor or nurse says it is okay to get it wet.
El-Gabalawy HS. Synovial fluid analysis, synovial biopsy, and synovial pathology. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Harris ED Jr., et al, eds. Kelleys Textbook of Rheumatology. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2008:chap 48.
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BOSTON – Antiviral therapy after surgery appears to reduce the risk of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma related to hepatitis B (HBV), a researcher reported here.
In a nationwide cohort from Taiwan, 20.5% of patients treated with anti-HBV nucleoside analogs had recurrence of their cancer, according to Chun-Ying Wu, MD, PhD, of National Yang-Ming University in Taipei.
In contrast, those who did not get the drugs – entecavir (Baraclude), lamivudine (3TC), and telbivudine (Tyzeka) – had a recurrence rate of 43.6%, Wu reported at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Previous research into the issue has been limited and has yielded conflicting results, Wu noted.
To help settle the question, Wu and colleagues turned to the national health system of Taiwan, which includes 99% of the population, as well as to databases covering reimbursement for nucleoside analogs and mortality.
From October 2003 to September 2010, they identified 4,569 patients who had HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma and received curative surgery. Of those, they reported, 518 were given nucleoside analogs for an average of 1.45 years.
Aside from the lower risk of recurrence, which was significant at P<0.001, they found:
- The treated cohort had a lower overall death rate -- 10.6% versus 28.3% (P<0.001)
- After adjusting for competing mortality, the treated cohort had a lower 6-year recurrence rate -- 45.6% compared with 54.6% (P<0.001)
- Overall, after 6 years, 29% of the treated cohort and 42.4% of the untreated cohort had died of any cause (P<0.001)
- In a modified Cox regression analysis, using nucleoside analogs was associated with a 33% reduction in cancer risk (HR 0.67, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.81, P<0.001)
- The use of statins and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or aspirin was also independently associated with a lower cancer risk
The researchers cautioned that the study was observational and cannot pin down cause and effect. They also noted that they were unable to account for patients who purchased their own drugs and were not reimbursed or for those who were prescribed the drugs but had poor compliance.
The study has several strengths, including its large size and completeness, commented Anna Lok, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
But despite that, the findings "are by no means definitive enough to answer the question of whether antiviral therapy after curative resection of hepatitis B-related (hepatocellular carcinoma) will prevent disease recurrence."
Among other issues, Lok wrote in an accompanying editorial in the journal, the researchers started their follow-up periods at different times – immediately after release for the untreated cohort and at first drug prescription on the treated patients.
But the latter period began, on average, more than a year after surgery, Lok noted, which would have excluded early recurrences and therefore likely amplified the observed benefit.
"It is unrealistic," Lok added, to expect that 1 or 2 years of antiviral therapy can prevent recurrence, especially since early recurrences are likely a result of previously undiscovered metastasis from the primary tumor.
The study was supported by Taiwan's National Health Research Institute. The journal said the authors reported no conflicts.
Lok reported financial links with Arrowhead, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, and Roche.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Chun-Ying Wu, et al "Association between nucleoside analogues and risk of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence following liver resection" JAMA 2012; 308(18): 1-8.
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Journal of the American Medical AssociationSource Reference: Lok A "Does antiviral therapy prevent recurrence of hepatitis b virus–related hepatocellular carcinoma after curative liver resection?" JAMA 2012; 308(18): 1-3.


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I teach predominantly exam courses without a literature element and, as a result,don't use literary texts in the classroom at all,I'm afraid.
Hi :) , I am doing my masters in ELT and my thesis topic is Investigating the ways that how do teachers exploit different genres of Literature(Drama, poems, essays, novels etc) to teach English Language at Intermediate level or at College level?
Actually i need to develop a questinnaire for the teachers , to ask diffrent questions realted to my topic. i need ur help in developing a questionnaire , my subsidary questions related to this topic is
Which is ur(teacher) favourite genre of literature to teach English Language? how do u develop an interst towards a boring poem, essay, novel etc? how do u enhance an interaction between student and in a literary text? wht are the startegies u apply to motivate the students towards Literat text? and so on.
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I teach predominantly exam courses without a literature element and, as a result,don't use literary texts in the classroom at all,I'm afraid.
Last May a Chinese English professor presented a conference paper extolling the virtues of using Shakespear to teach English.
In the UK there is an obssession with exams and teaching language held to be directly related to people's daily and professional lives. Literary language has been sidelined. Sad, really.


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Daily doses of the type 2 diabetes drug metformin modestly extended the lifespan and improved the metabolism of male mice, researchers found.
Animals that were given daily feed containing 0.1% metformin had an average 5.83% increase in lifespan compared with control mice that didn't get the drug (P=0.02), Rafael de Cabo, PhD, of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, and colleagues reported online in Nature Communications.
But the lifespan of mice given feed that contained 1% metformin was significantly shortened by 14.4%, indicating a sweet spot for chronic, beneficial doses of the drug.
Filipe Cabreiro, PhD, of University College London, who was not involved in this study but who has studied the effects of metformin on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans, told MedPage Today that the dose-dependent effects were an "interesting observation."
"This study clearly illustrates the importance of designing new studies to unravel the molecular targets of metformin and maximize its potential and therapeutic applications," Cabreiro said in an email.
Researchers have been interested in metformin's anti-aging effects because the drug has proven to be good at diminishing conditions that have a strong age-related component, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. They've argued that the drug appears to mimic the effects of calorie restriction and could hold similar anti-aging benefits as seen with such diets.
Indeed, in their research, Cabreiro and colleagues found that metformin extended the lifespan of C. elegans, but there have been conflicting results about its benefits in drosophila and other animal studies.
In the current study, de Cabo and colleagues looked at the effects in mice -- particularly, middle-aged male mice that were randomized to one of three diets: a standard diet, one that was supplemented with 0.1% metformin every day, or one that was supplemented with daily 1% metformin.
They found that male mice on the 0.1% metformin treatment had an increase in lifespan compared with control mice that didn't get metformin (P=0.02). The researchers also saw similar life-extending results in a different strain of mice, confirming that the "effects of metformin in longevity are not strain-specific."
But the 1% metformin treatment had the opposite effect -- it shortened the lifespan of the mice compared with the control group.
The difference was likely due to kidney failure, the researchers said, adding that high doses of metformin have been associated with the development of lactic acidosis, and the drug is contraindicated in patients with kidney dysfunction.
The lower metformin dose didn't appear to have any negative effects on the kidneys, and had other beneficial effects on metabolism. Mice on the 0.1% dose weighed less than control group mice despite consuming more calories, an indication that metformin increased their use of fat for energy.
This group also tended to preserve body weight as they got older, which has been associated with increased survival in rodent and human studies, the researchers said.
Metformin also prevented the onset of metabolic syndrome. At 100 weeks old, metformin-treated mice had improvements in metabolic parameters, including reductions in insulin, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and Homeostasis Model of Assessment - Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR), the researchers found.
In genome-wide microarray analysis of liver and muscle tissues, mice on low-dose metformin also had a global gene expression profile that resembled one seen with calorie restriction. De Cabo and colleagues saw significant overlap in the number of upregulated and downregulated gene sets in liver (84.7%) and muscle (85.6%) tissue, supporting the idea that metformin "closely mimics the calorie-restriction transcriptome," they wrote.
And in an analysis of mouse livers, metformin increased the levels of phospohoactive adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) -- an enzyme involved in energy balance and fat and glucose metabolism -- by 27% (P<0.05).
The researchers also observed a reduction in antioxidant activity and in chronic inflammation.
De Cabo and colleagues concluded that their findings justify further studies to determine if there's an exposure level of chronic metformin that could improve the health and lifespan of humans.
Farmhispania SA provided the metformin used in the study.
The research was supported in part by the National Institute on Aging and part of the work was done under a CRADA with SIRTRIS, a GlaxoSmithKline company.
The researchers reported no conflicts of interest.
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Should Golden Tate Be Suspended for Hit on Dallas Cowboys' Sean Lee? [POLL]
It's all over the Internet and sports talk shows today -- should Seattle Seahawks receiver Golden Tate be suspended after the hit he made on Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee in Sunday's game?
Tate completely laid out Lee (who was uninjured, thankfully) on a block for a teammate. There are rules against a type of hit like this. In 2009 the penalties for blockers were instituted. They state:
Any contact with the helmet or neck of an opponent made during a blind-side block, whether by helmet, forearm or shoulder, would result in a 15-yard personal foul penalty.
But it's really hard to tell if Tate hit Lee in the chest or the neck/helmet. Take a look at the screen shot above. What do you think?


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Following law school I was a research law clerk for a Federal Court of appeals. As an attorney I do both corporate litigation and Federal appeals as a senior partner of my firm, with clients including school districts. Until recently I served on the school board for a large unified district,
Perhaps we need to agree to disagree! My JD and legal education qualifies me to be an attorney. My experience as a parent, as an advocate for children and as a member of a school board provies me some insight into these issues, especially dealing with incontinence and diapers in a classroom setting. I do not dispute your wife may well have more practical experience as a classroom teacher. Perhaps she has attended some continuing education about legal issues. However, I assume you would have shared in your post if your wife or your good self is licensed to practice law and if either of you have ever litigated these issues.
Sincerely, Angela M. Bauer, Esq, attorney at law
Good Afternoon, Will Not Will and your good wife,
Please understand I respect your opinions, but my professional reputation as a respected attorney member of the Federal, California and Bars of numerous other states must be protected.
We are all looking out for the best interest of children. I am sure you and your wife feel the same way. While I have no clue as to your experience parenting I take your word for the education and employment of your wife. I am sure she protects the best interests of all the kids she teaches.
Until recently I was an elected member of the school board of a large Southern California unified (ps-12) school district. I also was editor of Law Review my final year at a major law school from which I graduated with honors.
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NASA and Russia's space agency are pushing ahead with plans for a yearlong stay in space, choosing the two men who will undertake the mission.
Scott Kelly, a NASA veteran with more than 180 days in space, and Russia's Mikhail Kornienko are scheduled to launch in spring 2015 to spend a year aboard the International Space Station, according to a NASA news release. A main goal of the expedition is to determine the effects of such a long stay on the human body.
"The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space," William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA headquarters in Washington, said in the release.
PHOTOS: Awesome images from space
Scientists have been monitoring how shorter stays aboard the ISS -- which has been occupied for 12 years -- have affected physical aspects including muscle mass, strength and bone density. But horizons for manned missions have widened, and researchers are looking to move beyond low-Earth orbit and want to know how microgravity will affect humans in the longer term.


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Pocono Mountains Getaway with Private Whirlpools, In-Room Pools, and Meals
Pocono Palace Resort is secluded in Pennsylvania's pine-fringed Pocono Mountains region. While it's nestled in the Pocono Mountains, there's no shortage of things to do at this all-inclusive resort: you can see music and comedy shows nightly and enjoy unlimited breakfast and dinner at an onsite restaurant. You also have access to two nearby sister resorts, where you can freely try anything from ballroom dancing to archery, or for a fee, golf on a nine-hole course ($35 per twosome). For a full list of activities, click here.
After a long day out, you can relax in a lavish guest suite that features a heart-shaped whirlpool tub and its own indoor heated pool. A 7-foot-tall whirlpool tub shaped like a champagne glass is the centerpiece of the Champagne Tower suite. After unwinding in this exotic hot tub, feel free to kick back on the heated in-room massage table or in the heart-shaped swimming pool.
During the day, you are within easy reach of other seasonal activities outside the resort, including casinos, golf, and whitewater rafting. Resort guests get exclusive discounts at many places in the area, such as outlet malls and areas for kayaking and ziplining—check with the concierge to see what's available.
Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania: Scenic Hiking Trails and Quaint Historic Towns
The Poconos is a picturesque mountain region located in Pennsylvania's northeast corner. It has been a popular vacation destination since its first hotel opened along the Delaware River in 1829. Today, the area draws nearly 24 million annual visitors thanks to its stunning natural beauty and year-round recreational opportunities, from skiing and ice-fishing in the winter to golfing and whitewater rafting when it's warm.
There are many ways to explore the region's lakes, wooded hills, and valleys. At Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, located about 50 minutes from the resort, you can hike a 27-mile section of the Appalachian Trail. Dozens of lakes and mountain streams make the area especially popular with fishers, who comb the waters for bass and trout year-round. Lake Wallenpaupack, located about 60 minutes away, is one of the best fishing spots in the state.
This area is also home to a handful of quaint little towns where guests and locals browse antique shops and art galleries. You'll also find boutique wine galleries and historical mansions tucked away on country roads, including the 19th-century Asa Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe.


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An enjoyable place to stop and walk around for an hour when exploring the northern coast of Antrim, Northern Ireland. Explore the ruins of Downhill house and visit the Mussenden Temple, which was originally a library, perched right on the cliffside. Don't be worried about the cracks in the ceiling and interior brickwork of the temple, it has recently been strengthened and stabilised.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussenden_Temple
Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland. It was built in 1785 and forms part of the estate of Frederick Augustus Hervey, the 4th Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry. Built as a library and modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Italy, it is dedicated to the memory of Hervey's cousin Frideswide Mussenden.
Over the years the erosion of the cliff face at Downhill has brought Mussenden Temple ever closer to the edge, and in 1997 the National Trust carried out cliff stabilisation work to prevent the loss of the building.[1] The inscription around the building reads, "Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem.." "Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore/ The troubled sailor, and hear the tempests roar. The quotation is from Lucretius De Rerum Natura, 2.1-2
Now part of the National Trust property of Downhill Estate & Mussenden Temple, the grounds encompassing Mussenden Temple, and its manor house (Downhill Castle) are open to the public all year, from dawn to dusk.[2] The temple itself is open on certain days, and admission is free. The Temple offers views westwards over Downhill Strand towards Magilligan Point and County Donegal and to the east Castlerock beach towards Portstewart, Portrush and Fair Head.


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Rayiner Hashem: In your presentation at Nove Hrady, you point out that drag and drop still doesn't work as it should, mainly because of poor implementations. Are there plans for a drag-and-drop library to ease the implementation of XDND functionality?
Havoc Pennington: The issue isn't poor implementation in the libraries, it's simpler than that. When you add drag and drop to an application you have a list of types that you support dragging or dropping, such as "text/plain". Applications simply don't agree on what these types are.
So we need a registry of types documenting the type name and the format of the data transferred under that name. That's it.
The starting point is to go through GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, etc. source code and document what types are already used.
The other issue requires even less explanation: application authors don't support DND in enough places.
Rayiner Hashem: Most of the examples listed in your Nove Hrady presentation were desktop level. Yet, you mentioned GTK+ 3 and Qt 4 as well. Do you think more interoperation at the toolkit level is necessary? What form would this interoperation take?
Havoc Pennington: I don't really think of freedesktop.org as an interoperability effort anymore. Rather, it's an effort to build a base desktop platform that desktops can build on.
Many of the things on freedesktop.org would be implemented in or used by the toolkit: icon themes, XEMBED, X server, Cairo, startup notification, and so forth.
Rayiner Hashem: From your experience with GTK+, what do you think are some of the properties that make it hard to write fast applications for X11? What would you like to see the server do to make it easier to write fast client applications?
Havoc Pennington: Talking only about speed (fast vs. slow) won't lead to understanding of the problem. Graphics will look bad if you have flicker, tearing, OR slowness. Most users will perceive all of those problems as "slowness."
Eliminating the round trip to clients to handle expose events will probably be a huge improvement in terms of both flicker and speed. The proposed Composite extension also allows double buffering the entire screen, which should let us fix virtually all flicker and tearing issues.
Some clients right now do things that are just stupid; for example, allocating huge pixmaps (image buffers) and keeping them around; improved profiling tools should help track down and fix these mistakes.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: Is freedesktop.org working towards a package management standard? While RPM and DEBs are well known, what is your opinion on autopackage.org?
Havoc Pennington: I don't really understand the motivation for autopackage. At their core, RPM and DEB are a tarball-like archive with some metadata. You can always just ignore the metadata, or add additional/different metadata.
For example, file dependencies; if you don't want your RPM package to have file dependencies, you don't have to include any.
I would tend to focus more on the question of which metadata we should have, and how it should be used by the installer UI.
autopackage tries to solve the problem that distributions use different packaging systems by creating an additional packaging system and using it in addition to the native one. However, you could just as easily pick one of the current systems (RPM, etc.) and use it on any distribution. RPM works fine on Solaris for example. I don't see how autopackage uniquely enables portability.
In short, to me the issues with software installation are not related to the on-disk format for archiving the binaries and metadata. I think autopackage could achieve much more by building stuff _around_ RPM and/or DEB rather than reinventing the archive wheel.
I haven't looked at autopackage in detail though, and I could be totally wrong.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: How do you feel about freedesktop.org becoming an "umbrella" project for all projects that require communication (e.g. if X requires a kernel extension, freedesktop.org makes sure that the X group is heard from the kernel group and manages the implementation)
Havoc Pennington: Ultimately freedesktop.org can't make sure of anything; it's not an enforcement agency. What it can do is provide a forum that's well-known where people can go and find the right developers to talk to about a particular issue.
Implementation will really always come from the work and leadership of the developers who put in hours to make things happen.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: How do you grade the support of commercial entities towards freedesktop.org? Is IBM, Novell, Red Hat and other big Linux players helping out the cause?
Havoc Pennington: Individual developers from all those companies are involved, but there's no framework for corporations to get involved as corporations. I'm happy overall that the right people are involved. But of course I'd always like to see more developers added to the Linux desktop effort.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: In the plans of freedesktop.org do we only find interoperation resolutions between DEs or innovation is part of the plan? For example, would freedesktop.org welcome Seth Nickell's Storage or 'System Services' projects which are pretty "out of the ordinary" kind of projects?
Havoc Pennington: I'd like to see more work originate at freedesktop.org, and certainly we'd be willing to host Seth's work. Ultimately though any new innovation has to be adopted by the desktops such as GNOME and KDE, and the distributions, to become a de facto reality. freedesktop.org may be the forum where those groups meet to agree on what to do, but freedesktop.org doesn't have a "mind of its own" so much.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: In your opinion, which is the hardest step to take in the road ahead for full interoperability between DEs? How far are we from the realization of this step?
Havoc Pennington: I think the "URI namespace" or "virtual file system" issue is the ugliest problem right now. It bleeds into other things, such as MIME associations and WinFS-like functionality. It's technically very challenging to resolve this issue, and the impact of leaving it unresolved is fairly high. Here are some links on that here, here and here.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: On Mac OS X, users who require extra accessibility can listen to text from pretty much any application via text-to-speech, as it is supported in the toolkit level. Are there any plans on creating a unified way where all applications (Qt or GTK+) would be able to offer this functionality from a common library? What would be the best way to go about it? What accessibility projects you would like to see produced at freedesktop.org?
Havoc Pennington: This is already supported with ATK and the rest of the GNOME accessibility implementation, you can text-to-speech any text displayed via GTK+ today. I believe there's a plan for how to integrate Qt and Java into the same framework, but I'm not sure what the latest details are. This is looking like an interoperability success already, as everyone does appear to be using the same framework.
Eugenia Loli-Queru: I haven't found an obvious way to get Abiword, Gaim, Epiphany (granted, with the mozilla toolkit, but still one of the apps that begs for such accessibility feature) or Gedit to read any texts... How is this done then? Is it a compilation/link option? If yes, the problem is not really solved if it is not transparent to the user and if not get done automatically after a compilation.
Havoc Pennington: I haven't ever tried it out, but I've seen the a11y guys demo it. The toolkit functionality is definitely there, in any case. I think you go to Preferences -> Assistive Technology Support and check the screenreader box, but I don't know if it works out of box on any distributions yet. It's a new feature. (editor's note: "screenreader" on Fedora is greyed out, while on the latest Slackware can be selected, but it is later dumbed "unavailable" and so it doesn't work yet out of the box for most distros).
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From "The Silence of the Soul," by Laurence Freeman OSB in THE TABLET 10 May 1997.
[One] reason why silence is so disturbing to us [is this]: As soon as we begin to become silent, we experience the relativity of our ordinary everyday mind. With this mind we measure our space and time coordinates, we calculate probabilities and count up our mistakes and successes.
From Fr. John Main, "Purity of Heart," WORD MADE FLESH (London: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2009), pp. 58-59.
. . . .We often think of freedom merely as the freedom to do what we want to do. But even the most rudimentary experience of making contact with the power of Jesus in meditation shows us that freedom is not essentially the power to do but the liberty to be who we are
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB. "Dearest Friends," WCCM InternationalNewsletter, Winter 2001.
Inner peace is hard to find at times of conflict and fear. We find it difficult to sit still when mind and feelings are in turmoil. It is easy to give up meditation at such times when it is most needed. So it helps to see that our meditation is not for ourselves alone.
An excerpt from John Main OSB, "Straying from the Mantra," THE HEART OFCREATION (London: Canterbury, 2007), pp. 9-11.
To learn to meditate we have to learn to be humble. . . . What does it mean to be humble? It means to begin to acknowledge that there is a reality outside of ourselves, that is greater than ourselves and that contains us.
From Fr John Main, "Smashing the Mirror," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 50-51.
I do not think it is any exaggeration to say that original sin is self-consciousness, the hyper-self-consciousness of egoism, because self-consciousness gives rise to divided consciousness.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Dearest Friends" in Christian Meditation Newsletter, Vol. 35, No. 2, July 2011, P. 5.
We are all looking for something. Some have a clear sense of it, at least a conscious awareness of something missing. But much of the time and for most of us, it remains a dull ache and a vague longing that endures through good and hard times alike.
From John Main OSB, "A Call to the Fullness of Life," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 110-111.
One thing we learn in meditation is the priority of being over action. Indeed, no action has any meaning, or at least any lasting depth of meaning, unless it springs from being, from the depths of your own being. This is why meditation is a way that leads us away from shallowness to depth, to profundity.
An Excerpt from John Main, "Being Present Now," DOOR TO SILENCE: An Anthology for Christian Meditation (London: Canterbury Press, 2008), pp. 82-83.
If we are truly attentive to the mantra we cannot image God. We cannot construct any idea or icon of God. In the context of this pure attention, pure faith, we learn that all images, ideas, memories and words fall short of the reality we are paying attention to.
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman, OSB, "Frequent Flyer," The Tablet, August 10, 2004.
In the dry heavy heat of a Tuscan afternoon the bus drops off retreatants, from several continents. They now have to walk carefully down a steep path toward the guest house and monastery. The path is a parable, made of narrow, ancient terracotta bricks, many crumbling, missing or replaced with new ones. . .
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Dearest Friends," The World Community for Christian Meditation International Newsletter, Winter 2000.
As many Christians today find their leaders regressing into a rigid sectarianism, they are learning to find in their ancient contemplative wisdom a truer expression of the teachings of Jesus.; It is not those who mouth "Lord, Lord: who "please the Father," but those who "do the Father's will.


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Travis Fryman begins his seventh season in the Indians Player Development system and his second as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations. Fryman spent the 2011 and 2012 campaigns as the organization's minor league Infield Coordinator after managing Short-A Mahoning Valley for three seasons from 2008-10. He took the Scrappers to the New York Penn League finals in 2009.
Fryman, 45, retired in 2002 following a 16-year playing career that saw him spend parts of 13 seasons at the Major League level with the Detroit Tigers (1990-97) and Cleveland Indians (1998-2002). He compiled a .274 batting average with 223 HR and 1,022 RBI over 1,698 career games, earning the A.L. Silver Slugger Award at shortstop in 1992. Fryman was selected to five A.L. All-Star teams (1992-94, 1996, 2000) and represented the Tribe as the league's starting third baseman in the 2000 Mid-Summer Classic. He was also honored with a Rawlings Gold Glove that same season, while batting a career-best .321 with 22 HR and 106 RBI.
Travis and his wife, Kathleen, reside in Molino, Fla., with their three sons: Mason, Branden and Cole.


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Not sure how active the Israeli and Kosher Wine Forum is these days (I've been very busy, and sort of drifted away again), but I thought I'd take another stab at posting something that might be of interest. See here: http://www.decanter.com/news/blogs/expert/530329/jefford-on-monday-tree-time for Andrew Jefford's Decanter blog post from Aug. 18th. Here's the lead:
Oak, particularly new French oak, is the most expensive container you can choose in which to age your new wines. We've all damned wines for being over-oaked. "This wine needs more oak," by contrast, is a comment I've never heard from anyone. The imbalance is striking. Is all that money being wasted?
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29 August 2013 – Bentiu: The government of Unity State has officially taken charge of three police posts, 19 hand-pump boreholes and the seven kilometre long Guit Canal which will transport much needed water to the Naam River, saving cattle keepers in Guit County from a routine seven mile trek and holding the promise of calm in the area known for competition over access to water and pasture.
The police posts will boost security and extend the state writ at the local level, while the boreholes are estimated to benefit 10,000 people in the area. Each of the police posts have solar power, separate custody cells for women and for men, and are equipped with modern communication equipment that enables the Police to be more responsive to emergencies.
These projects were built with technical support from the Community Security and Arms Control (CSAC) project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) South Sudan through generous financial assistance from the European Union. Earlier, in February this year, the State received four tractors and nine police vehicles that has boosted peace and development in the region. So far, these tractors have helped 450 farmers in Panyijar County with ploughing their farms and inspired local 'Peace Cadres' in Koch County to work toward a conducive environment that would enable them to maximise the use of their new community tractor.
The new projects will help improve security in Koch, Leer, Mayendit, and Panyijar counties. The Hon. Mabek Lang, Deputy Governor, emphasised to make the best possible use of the new resources "so that our people realise that there is peace, which has been supported by UNDP." Recognising the value of the newly built Guit Canal to the local people, Mr. Malual Luyol, Director of Planning and Budgeting of Guit County, described it as "the best project in Guit County since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement."
The facilities were built as a result of UNDP-supported community consultations that enabled communities to analyse their conflicts and identify projects that they believe could help address their security concerns. With financial backing from the European Union, the UNDP-CSAC Project responded to the findings of the consultations by supporting the government of Unity State to establish the facilities requested by the people.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Response to the response
It appears the Astros blogosphere got all worked up into a lather before they had all the facts.
According to the CEO of HAWC, the donations from the Wives Gala last year was only about 3% of their total budget. People are freaking out like this whole charity is going to fold and no longer exist. At this point, it seems like people are just looking for an excuse to pile on and bash the Astros some more.
I am a loyalist. Read this blog long enough and you will find that we (collectively) will give the Astros so much rope that they can all hang themselves from the Chik-Fil-A Fowl Poles lined up like a dadgum Three Stooges episode. And I'm also not a sensitive guy. I don't respond to comments all that much, which I should probably be better at, but I feel as though that's a place for you - dear reader - to weigh in.
But I'm not going to back down from how poorly this HAWC situation was handled. Is it sweet of Jim Crane to up the Astros Foundation endowment to $18m? Yes it is. But for all we know, he decided that mid-morning today.
That KHOU piece was posted at 6:57pm on May 13. The Astros response to CultureMap Houston which, no offense to CultureMap, isn't exactly the Houston Chronicle, didn't go up until 1:25pm on May 14. That meant that we all had almost 18 hours to ask ourselves, and each other, "What the Hell, Astros?" before we heard from the team.
According to a number of reports today, Jim Crane terminated the event back in January. The report surfaced today. This means the Astros had three and a half months to get in front of this story. As soon as they found out, "WE DON'T HAVE ANY WIVES!" they could have immediately made alternate plans for some other group to host it: Coaches Wives. Scouts Wives. Bloggers Wives (hell yeah we have wives). But they chose to let it simmer until it came out last night.
The Astros could have come out in February and said, "You know, we have a young team, they're not married, but we're going to show them how it's done. And we're also upping the Foundation endowment to $18m. So suck on it, bloggers." And they could have invited the spouses of former Astros players to lead the gala. There were a hundred ways to handle this better than the way they did. They chose not to. They said, "We'll handle it from here," and then cancelled it. And THEN, after KHOU did their thing (and good on them), the Astros talked about the direction in which they are going with their charitable giving.
$250,000 out of an $18m endowment. That's not a high percentage. Both ends could have been achieved easily and without a PR hit. And the reason they took the PR hit was because they didn't control the narrative. They gave us the opportunity to overreact, if that's what we did. And if I'm going to err, I'll err on the side of sticking up for a women's shelter.
I know this ownership group has been breaking ties with the past: Dierker, Deshaies, Strech Suba. Anybody who shook Drayton McLane's hand was doomed. I just didn't imagine it would extend to the Houston Area Women's Center.
6 comments:
- HankHill'sMurderousGolfClub said...
Good post. clears a few things up
- May 14, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- Stephen Scogin said...
Amen brother. The Astros fans are ready to riot. Like Watts style.Burning,tearing up, stuff. All they need is a spark. This may be it. We have taken so much bad news from the robbing of minor league talent to todays news. Long season is getting longer by the day. Hmm contraction does not sound half bad now.
- May 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM
"I know this ownership group has been breaking ties with the past: Dierker, Deshaies, Strech Suba. Anybody who shook Drayton McLane's hand was doomed. I just didn't imagine it would extend to the Houston Area Women's Center."
Including Deshaies invalidates the entire argument you were trying to make here. Everybody who possesses an ounce of common sense knows Deshaies left because he wanted to pursue the national broadcasting opportunity that working for the Cubs gives him.
- May 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM
- Astros County said...
Disagree, Anonymous. Paul Sullivan wrote that the Astros were "never competitive with their offer." (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-12-03/sports/ct-spt-1204-cubs-chicago--20121204_1_diamondbacks-tv-len-kasper-bob-vorwald).
The Astros may have just thought he'd stick around, but they didn't try very hard to keep him.
- May 15, 2013 at 9:01 AM
It sounds like you are backing down a little bit.
Bashing the Astros for terrible PR is totally fair and warranted.
Bashing the Astros for 'dooming a charity' is not. That is not what happened in this case.
- May 15, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Bashing the Astros for terrible PR is definitely appropriate. Bashing their PR staff is, ironically, not warranted. Name one other team who has press releases being reviewed by LAWYERS. How could you ever expect a timely, appropriate response with that setup?
Blame Drayton for a bunch of things, but at least he trusted his people to make a decision.
- May 15, 2013 at 1:46 PM


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks eased slightly on Tuesday after Bank of America Corp. CEO Brian Moynihan said that the company is already feeling the impact of the fiscal cliff in its business and planning.
"We're actually forming [business] plans in August and September. So even leading up to that, people are becoming more conservative. And I think that's had an impact on what the growth will be in 2013. And I think we're in danger if this thing begins to string out in 2013, you may begin to have problems about what 2014 begins to look like," the CEO told CNBC.
Bank of America BAC, -3.23% managed a modest gain on Tuesday despite the comments, but the advance lacked conviction as the shares continue to edge toward $10.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -1.81% shares were flat.
J.P. Morgan, along with Bank of America, American Express Co. AXP, -1.45% and Travelers Cos. TRV, -0.87% , make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average's DJIA, -2.24% quartet of financial stocks.
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The dissertation is the most substantial scholarly work you will complete as part of your doctoral program. It is a culminating experience, rather than just an evaluation piece that occurs at the end of your program. The dissertation is an extension of work during the program. The dissertation is practice-based dealing with issues faced by educational organizations. It should have relevance to your professional setting.
The dissertation belongs first to you. The dissertation chair and other dissertation committee members will assist you in researching and writing an excellent dissertation. Over many years, a style for the dissertation has developed. The dissertation is a report on the results of a scholarly study.
The dissertation is usually completed in five chapters. In Chapter One you provide an introduction to the study and its rationale. Chapter Two contains a literature review showing how the study relates to previous research and scholarly thought. In Chapter Three you detail the design of the research. In Chapter Four you describe the results of your research. In Chapter Five you discuss the significance of your research findings. This five-chapter format is often adapted for a particular study. The program has approved six and even seven-chapter dissertations, particularly in the area of qualitative research. The steps in creating a dissertation are briefly described below.
Roles of Chair, Committee Members, and Doctoral Candidate
You, your dissertation committee chair, and your dissertation committee members are responsible for creating the dissertation and assuring that it is of doctoral quality. You plan and conduct the research and write the proposal and dissertation. Your dissertation chair takes primary responsibility for assisting you. Committee members provide additional assistance as needed and participate in approving your dissertation proposal and your completed dissertation.
You need to allow sufficient time for your chair and committee to review your proposal and dissertation drafts. You should expect that it may take up to two weeks to receive a response. Normally the proposal and dissertation require multiple drafts. Often, doctoral committees will require you to use an editor to assure the written quality of the dissertation. This determination is made on a case-by-case basis.
Expenses of Dissertation
In addition to tuition, doctoral candidates may incur the following expenses:
- Costs related to conducting the dissertation research, e.g. postage for questionnaire mailing
- Costs for editing the dissertation (varies)
- Cost for APA editing of dissertation (varies)
- Cost for binding of dissertation (currently $15 per copy)
- Cost of including dissertation in ProQuest database (currently $55)
Your first step is to write a dissertation proposal. The dissertation proposal is a description of the research to be conducted. The proposal creates an agreement between you, your dissertation committee, and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) about the research to be conducted. The dissertation committee approves your proposal first, and then it goes to the IRB. Once the proposal is approved, no major changes are permitted in the research design without the approval of the dissertation committee and the IRB.
The proposal usually consists of three chapters and additional information required by the IRB. The three chapters parallel the first three chapters of the dissertation (introduction, literature review, research design). The proposal will not finalize the first three chapters of the dissertation but should have all the components of those chapters. For example, if the literature review is not completed, it should allow the committee to understand what the completed literature review will contain. A statement of additional topics to be included in the finished literature review is required.
Your proposal should comply with the formatting rules for the dissertation. All drafts of the proposal should be accompanied by a title page, listing the title, your name, names of your committee members, and date of the draft. Include a running head on all pages of the proposal comprised of your name and the date of the draft. When you complete the proposal, remove the running head from your final proposal.
Oral Defense of Proposal
Your chair will schedule an oral proposal defense when the chair and committee agree that your proposal is ready. You and your committee will attend the oral proposal defense. At the defense, you will present an overview of the proposed dissertation, using PowerPoint. The committee may require you to make additional changes to your proposal before it is approved. Another defense may be scheduled if the changes are substantial, or approval of less significant changes can be delegated by the committee to the chair. When the proposal is approved, the committee members sign an approval form and place it in your file.
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
After passing your proposal defense, you submit your dissertation proposal to the IRB for review of the treatment of subjects. The IRB's task to is assure that subjects understand the research project and their involvement in the project. The IRB meets monthly and normally requires receipt of the proposal two weeks before its next meeting. The proposal must comply with all the requirements of the IRB, which are stated separately in IRB documents. Your proposal must contain the IRB cover sheet, your resume, a timeline for completion of the research, any permission letters required for research to be conducted in a school district, and copies of consent forms that subjects must sign before participating in the study. Doctoral candidates are encouraged to follow the IRB guidelines carefully to avoid delay in approval of dissertation proposals. Your research can begin only after IRB approval.
Overview of Remaining Dissertation Procedures
After you have passed the IRB, you collect and analyze your data and write the remaining chapters of your dissertation with the advice of your dissertation chair and committee. When the committee agrees that your dissertation is ready, they will schedule an oral defense. After the oral defense, you will make any additional changes required by the committee and get final approval from your chair. Then the dissertation is submitted to an editor to double-check for proper APA format. After all changes are made, the dissertation is submitted to the Aurora University library for binding and to ProQuest to make the dissertation available on-line. Additional details of these procedures are provided below.
Due to the intense involvement of you and your committee the dissertation process, careful scheduling is crucial. The following timeline is intended to provide general guidance for you if you wish to complete the doctorate degree in 3 years. The first 2 years focus on course work, with some attention to the dissertation; the final year is mainly devoted to the dissertation. Each dissertation may have unique features that alter this timeline; a fixed timeline cannot be created that will address every dissertation. It is helpful for you to identify a general dissertation topic early and to choose a committee chairperson and members as soon as practical.
- Fall Year 1: Consider dissertation interests, questions and data collection (discussed in EDU 7110/8110)
- Spring Year 1: Research dissertation topic (literature review part of EDU 7010/8010)
- Summer Year 1: Continue refining your dissertation topic and literature research
- Fall Year 2: Create research design (assignment in EDU 7100/8100 and EDU 7190/8190) Select dissertation committee chair and, perhaps, members
- Spring Year 2: Write proposal, defend it, and pass the IRB
- Summer Year 2: Gather data, continue literature review, or other appropriate tasks as defined by dissertation committee
- Fall Year 3: Gather data, continue literature review, or other appropriate tasks as defined by dissertation committee
- Spring Year 3: Analyze data or other appropriate tasks as defined by dissertation committee
- Summer Year 3: Complete dissertation and defend it
- August Year 3: Complete degree
The format for the dissertation is described below. An electronic template containing the format is available on Moodle. If you use the template, you will reduce the cost and time needed for final APA editing of your dissertation.
- Number of copies: Candidates must submit an original and a minimum of two copies of the dissertation to the dissertation committee chairperson prior to the defense.
- Form and condition of original manuscript: The original manuscript must be printed on 8 ½" x 11" white, unlined paper that is 24 pound and has 25 percent cotton content. Printing must appear on only one side of each sheet. The original manuscript must be accurately proofread. Computers or word processors are recommended for writing dissertations.
- Type Styles: Any legible 12-point font will be acceptable, but styles with serifs are recommended because they normally have greater legibility. Originals should be printed on a laser or full letter-quality printer. Do not use running headers or footers, and use boldface sparingly.
- Margins: Original manuscripts and copies must have these uniform margins:
- Left margins must be 1 ½" throughout, including footnotes, appendices, charts, graphs, tables, etc.
- Right margins must be 1" throughout.
- Top Margins: First pages of all chapters must have a 1½" margin at the top. All other pages must have a 1" margin at the top.
- Bottom margins must be 1" throughout.
- Spacing: The text of the dissertation must be double-spaced. Footnotes or endnotes must be single-spaced.
- Pagination: Use lowercase Roman numerals to number your introductory pages (title page, acknowledgements, dedication, etc.) with the title page bearing no number, but include it in the sequence. A Table of Contents is required, and on it list all preliminary pages, chapter headings, bibliography, and appendices (if any). Use Arabic numerals to number the remaining pages of the text, including appendices. Page numbers must be centered at the top of the page.
- Endnotes: Place them at the end of each chapter. Please consult with your dissertation chairperson about preferences. Begin endnotes on a separate page at the end of the chapter and single-space, with a double space between each note. Notes should follow the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) Stylebook, Sixth Edition.
- References: Append a list of references to the dissertation. The list must contain (alphabetically by author) all references that are cited within the dissertation and must follow APA style guidelines, except the references should be single spaced, with a double space between each note.
- Copyright: If your dissertation is to be copyrighted, indicate so as follows: © Copyright [date]. Copyrighting your dissertation is optional, so consult with your dissertation chair person. ProQuest can copyright your dissertation if you request that service.
- Condition of copies: The College of Education requires that you assume full responsibility for the correctness of content and form of all copies of your dissertation. All copies must be clear and legible. Copies must be from high-quality photocopiers and must not have smudges, streaks, or smears; carbon paper copies are not acceptable. All pages must be present and in proper order before submitting copies of the dissertation to the committee.
- Title Page: The title page of the original manuscript of the dissertation must contain the title of the dissertation, author, date, and copyright statement (if copyrighted).
- Dissertation Acceptance Page: This page must contain the ink signatures of your committee members after the dissertation has been defended.
- Abstract: When the original manuscript is submitted, an abstract must also be submitted, consisting of not more than 350 words. The abstract is placed after the acceptance page.
- Model Pages: See the model pages for the Title Page, Dissertation Acceptance Page, and Abstract in the appendix of the handbook.
Oral Defense of Dissertation
Oral defense is an opportunity for you to explain your dissertation research to the university community and engage in a dialogue with the dissertation committee about the research. It is the event at which the dissertation committee formally passes judgment on your dissertation. The dissertation committee may approve the dissertation, approve pending revisions, or reject the dissertation for major revisions. It is most common for the committee to approve a dissertation, pending revisions. The dissertation chair will schedule a defense when committee agrees that your dissertation is ready for oral defense.
The dissertation committee chair opens the oral defense by describing the process of the defense. Then, you present and defend your dissertation. Limit your presentation to 20 to 30 minutes and focus primarily on the research design, findings, and conclusions/implications. Any professor, dean, doctoral candidate, or other guest may attend this presentation. At its conclusion, all your guests will be asked to leave the room. You and your committee will discuss your dissertation. At the conclusion of this discussion, the committee will ask you leave the room. The committee will discuss its decision. If revisions are required, the committee will agree on those revisions. The committee will ask you and any guests to return to the room and will announce its decision.
If your dissertation is approved, or approved with minor revisions, your dissertation committee members will sign and date the acceptance page of the dissertation. Dissertation committee members will provide you any required minor revisions.
If the dissertation is not approved, you will work with the dissertation committee to revise your dissertation until the committee can approve the dissertation. Another oral defense will be required.
Post Defense
There are several specific steps that you need to follow after your dissertation defense. These are your final steps in the dissertation process, necessary before you receive your Ed.D. diploma.
- After the dissertation defense, you must make any revisions required by the committee. The dissertation chair will oversee those changes until the dissertation is appropriately revised.
- The dissertation will next go to an editor to check for APA style. You can receive a current list of APA editors from the Program Secretary.
- Send your dissertation to the APA editor.
- If no changes are needed, or after the needed changes are made, make sure that nothing has been changed by the editor inappropriately; then print the dissertation.
- Copy the dissertation on white paper, 25% cotton content, 24 pound. Make as many copies as you want to be bound by the library. You will need to complete an order form from the library. The current cost is $15 per bound copy. You must bind one copy for the library. Normally you also bind a copy for each of your committee members. When your bound copies are ready, the library will notify you.
- Finally, there is a form to complete to put your dissertation into dissertation abstracts, an on-line database of dissertations. The current fee is $55. If you want ProQuest to copyright the dissertation there is an additional $65 fee. Submit the following items to the Program Secretary:
- completed application,
- a copy of the dissertation title page,
- copy of the dissertation abstract,
- an electronic copy (PDF format) of the final dissertation on Compact Disc, and a,
- a cashier's check or money order for $55.00 dollars for publishing or $120.00 for publishing and copyrighting made payable to ProQuest.
The Program Secretary will forward the materials to ProQuest.


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EEB 3247 Limnology
Fall 2011
Lecture Meeting Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:15 in TLS 301
Lab Meeting Time: Thursdays 12:00 - 4:00 in TLS 179
Textbooks: Dodson S.I., 2005. Introduction to Limnology 1st Edition. McGraw-Hill.
Giller P.S. and B. Malmqvist, 2008. The Biology of Streams and Rivers. Oxford University Press.
Dr. Mark Urban
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office: Biology/Pharmacy 200A
Phone: (860) 486-6113
Office hours: by appointment
Jessie Rack (Teaching Assistant)
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office: Biology/Pharmacy 211
Phone: (860) 486-6154
Office hours: by appointment
Course Procedures
Overview of Course:
The main objective of the course is to introduce you to the dominant physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms determining the ecology of inland waters. A secondary objective is to teach field sampling and research techniques pertinent to aquatic research. Classes will integrate lectures on core concepts with field and laboratory experiences In addition, an independent research project would be used to integrate concepts and also allow students to design, implement, analyze and communicate their own scientific research.
Limnology can be taught with various foci. I teach the course as an upper level ecology class focused on aquatic systems. If you have not taken ecology or evolution, you may need to do some supplementary work to catch up. See me within the first week to discuss this possibility.
- Field and lab exercises are mandatory. Field trips cannot be made up. If for some reason you think that you will be unable to make any field trips, consult with me in advance.
- We will leave for field trips at exactly 12 pm. Please arrive at the lab on time.
- This is a field course. Ecologists go out regardless of the weather, and so will we. You are responsible for bringing appropriate rain or cold weather gear.
- This is a field course. Ecologists go out regardless of the weather, and so will we. You are responsible for bringing appropriate rain or cold weather gear.
- We will leave for field trips at exactly 12 pm. Please arrive at the lab on time.
The two texts for the course are listed below. Both can be purchased from online sources such as Amazon.com or at the UConn Co-op.
Dodson, Stanley. 2005. Introduction to Limnology. McGraw Hill. ISBN: 007287935-3
Giller, Paul & Bjorn Malmqvist. 2008. The Biology of Streams and Rivers. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198549772
Class requirements and grading:
You must attend each class. Your grade will be based on two exams, completion of lab reports, a group research project and participation in field and lab exercises:
Midterm and Final Exams: 50
Lab Reports (2): 20
Research Project: 20
Participation/Quizzes: 10
TOTAL: 100 pts
Notes on class requirements:
- The two exams will cover material covered in both lectures and labs. The final exam will be cumulative. Also expect one or more pop quizzes on reading materials.
- I require lab reports which provide succinct descriptions and analyses of data collected during lab and field exercises.
- You will also have time to perform a field or laboratory research project, of your design but requiring my permission. These projects can be performed individually or in small groups (3-maximum). Results will be presented by all individuals during the last lab meeting.
- Participation means showing up, completing all assigned readings on time, and actively taking part in lectures and labs.
- All students must adhere to all safety intructions at all times, especially while on water bodies, or you will be prevented from further participation.
Lateness policy
Assignments will lose 10 percentage points for every 24-hour period that they are late. For example, an assignment that would have received a 100% had it been handed in on time will receive a 60% (an F) if it is handed in 4 days late. Only a note from a physician or the Dean sent to me in advance of the due date will be accepted as a valid excuse.
Missed field trips/labs
Missed field trips or labs cannot be made up and will result in lost points unless the absence has been approved by me at least one week in advance or with a note from the physician or the Dean sent to me in advance of the field trip or lab. If you must miss a field trip or lab because of a legitimate school-sponsored activity or religious observance, then you must seek my permission at least one week in advance. In all approved cases, an equivalent activity will be assigned.
Plagiarism means using someone else's statement word-for-word without quotation marks (even if you cite it) or using someone else's ideas, even if you have paraphrased them, without proper attribution of credit through a citation. The penalty for plagiarism on your research project is a zero. Do not plagiarize – I run all of your written work through software that detects plagiarism. All plagiarism and cheating will be dealt with in the severest manner possible, meaning a zero on affected assignments and referral to the Dean's office.
Lecture and Lab Schedule & Materials
Additional Resources
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Association of State Wetland Managers
International Society of Limnology
North American Benthological Society
North American Lake Management Society
North American Native Fishes Association
Society of Wetland Scientists
Water Web Consortium


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This plugin is used to create a Changes Report, a JIRA Report and an Announcement text file. It is also able to send the announcement via email.
In order to use this goal, simply create a changes.xml file in the src/changes/ directory. Here's an example of a typical changes.xml, showing the syntax:
<document xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/changes/1.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/changes/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/changes-1.0.0.xsd"> <properties> <title>Changes Tester Project</title> <author email="email@example.com">Johnny R. Ruiz III</author> </properties> <body> <release version="1.1" date="2005-03-01" description="Subsequent release"> <action dev="jruiz" type="add"> Added additional documentation on how to configure the plugin. </action> <action dev="aramirez" type="fix" issue="MPJIRA-11"> Enable retrieving component-specific issues. </action> <action dev="jruiz" type="remove" due-to="Allan Ramirez" due-to-email="firstname.lastname@example.com"> The element type " link " must be terminated by the matching end-tag. Deleted the erroneous code. </action> </release> <release version="1.0" date="2005-01-01" description="First release"> <action dev="jruiz" type="update"> Uploaded documentation on how to use the plugin. </action> </release> </body> </document>
See the Changes Reference for details regarding the <release> and <action> elements and their attributes.
To generate the Changes Report, insert the Changes Plugin in the <reporting> section of your project's pom.xml
<project> ... <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <reportSets> <reportSet> <reports> <report>changes-report</report> </reports> </reportSet> </reportSets> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting> ... </project>
and execute the site goal to generate the report.
mvn site
If you use the issue attribute in your changes.xml file and have the <issueManagement> element configured in your pom.xml, the report will contain links to the issues in your issue management system. The default configuration produces links to JIRA, but that can be configured.
Note: If you have another issue tracker, make sure that your <issueManagement>/<url> is correct. In particular, make sure that it has a trailing slash if it needs one. The plugin can't add this for you, because it needs to handle different issue management systems. If your issue management system is at http://www.company.com/bugzilla/ the links will not work if you enter http://www.company.com/bugzilla in your pom.xml.
Note: To use the JIRA Report, the <issueManagement> section in the pom.xml of your project must be configured. It might look something like this:
<project> ... <issueManagement> <system>JIRA</system> <url>http://jira.codehaus.org/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10450</url> </issueManagement> ... </project>
To generate the JIRA Report, insert the Changes Plugin in the <reporting> section of your project's pom.xml
<project> ... <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <reportSets> <reportSet> <reports> <report>jira-report</report> </reports> </reportSet> </reportSets> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting> ... </project>
and execute the site goal to generate the report.
mvn site
For info on how to modify the JIRA Report see the Customizing the JIRA Report example.
As usual we start by configuring your project's pom.xml. We add a basic configuration for sending emails and specify the lucky recipients of the announcement emails.
For info on how to change the sender of the email see the Specifying the mail sender example.
<project> ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <configuration> ... <smtpHost>mail.yourhost.com</smtpHost> <smtpPort implementation="java.lang.Integer">25</smtpPort> <toAddresses> <toAddress implementation="java.lang.String">email@example.com</toAddress> <toAddress implementation="java.lang.String">email@example.com</toAddress> </toAddresses> ... </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> ... </project>
You can now generate the announcement by executing the command below:
mvn changes:announcement-generate
If you want to generate the announcement based on JIRA you would either configure it in your pom.xml or you would add the appropriate parameter on the command line, like this:
mvn changes:announcement-generate -DgenerateJiraAnnouncement=true
This is how you send an email with the generated announcement:
mvn changes:announcement-mail