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ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Charges of burglary and breaking and entering led a special session of Belmont County Common Pleas Court Thursday. Judge John M. Solovan II presided.
Lucas Taylor Kinkade, 20, Belmont, currently incarcerated, was sentenced on a count of burglary, a felony of the second degree, and safecracking, a felony of the fourth degree, occurring, Dec. 25, 2012. He was given a sentence of four years for the first count and 12 months for the second, to be served concurrently for a total of four years. He was given credit for 101 days.
Kinkade apologized for his actions, adding that he wishes for help in combating his drug addiction.
Solovan reviewed Kinkade's history, noting an escalating pattern of trespassing into others' homes, creating a risk to the residents. He pointed out the lasting psychological harm to the victim and the necessity of accountability.
"You folks don't realize the seriousness of your actions when you enter someone's home and they're there," he said.
Steven Michael Tracy, 19, 211 N. 7th St., Martins Ferry, pleaded guilty to three counts of third degree burglary, two counts of fourth degree burglary, and one count of fifth degree breaking and entering.
His co-defendant, Christopher William Goldsmith, 21, 412 North 8th St., Martins Ferry, pleaded guilty to identical charges. The incidents stem from a series of break-ins at area cabins and a trailer, some of which might have been occupied.
Sentencing was set for June 7. Victim impact statements, pre-sentence investigations, Eastern Ohio Correction Center evaluations and Crossroads evaluations were ordered. Each faces a maximum of 12 years.
Donovan James Shrieve, 27, 500 Front St., Bethesda, failed to complete the drug court and was given a sentence of 10 months with credit for time served. He was originally convicted of trafficking in drugs, a felony of the fifth degree occurring Jan. 6, 2009.
Christopher David Harding, 43, incarcerated, pleaded guilty to importuning, a felony of the fifth degree occurring Dec. 1, 2012. Sentencing was set for June 7. A pre-sentence investigation, victim impact statement, and EOCC evaluation were ordered. He faces a maximum sentence of one year and designation as a Tier 1 offender.
Gregory Barnes, 30, 201 Spring St., Flushing, pleaded guilty to one count of domestic violence, a felony of the third degree occurring Jan. 4, 2013. He has two prior convictions and is facing other pending charges in another court.
Sentencing was set for June 21. An EOCC evaluation, pre-sentencing investigation and victim impact statement were ordered. He faces a maximum sentence of 36 months.
Wayne Anthony Vincent, no age listed, 128 1/2 Broad St., St. Clairsville, saw the revocation of his bond after testing positive for drugs. He was originally charged with breaking and entering, a felony of the fifth degree occurring Nov. 4, 2012. His plea agreement deadline is May 24.
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Bridging the gap between the Saucony Kinvara TR and Xodus, the Saucony Peregrine 2 features a low profile ride with enough underfoot protection for longer runs on technical terrain.
The Peregrine is the middle child in Saucony's family of 4mm heel-to-toe offset trail shoes, which also consists of the Xodus and the Kinvara TR. As the middle child, it blends the low-to-the-ground feel of the Kinvara TR with the more substantial protection found in the Xodus. We found the result to be a versatile trail option.
The Peregrine's upper feels substantial, with a tough overlay pattern that wraps the foot and offers a locked-down fit. The closed mesh upper material provides protection from the elements but as expected doesn't offer a boatload of breathability; runners in colder climates have the added benefit of a bit extra warmth in this shoe.
The midsole of the Peregrine 2 offers up a moderate amount of cushioning; the shoe has a bit of bounce and responsiveness to it while maintaining a close to the ground feel. We think the Peregrine 2 is a great option for runners who want to get a little closer to the trail but still have a nicely protective platform underfoot. The rock plate does make the shoe a bit firmer, but stops poke-throughs and minimizes bruising.
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Teacher case moves to grand jury
RIPLEY – A teacher accused of an alleged relationship with a 15-year-old Wood County student had his case bound over to a Jackson County grand jury Wednesday.
Dustin "Dusty" Mullins of Ravenswood was in Jackson County Magistrate Court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing.
Mullins, 22, was initially charged with use of obscene matter with intent to seduce a minor, solicitation of a minor via computer and two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony. County Prosecutor Kenny Skeen dropped three felony charges. Mullins faces a single felony count of solicitation of a minor via computer. If convicted Mullins faces 2-10 years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines. The next grand jury will convene Feb. 26.
Skeen said he can file additional charges if warranted.
"We are not precluded from bringing additional felony counts if that is what we deem necessary and appropriate," he said.
Mullins, a Ravenswood native, was student teaching at Parkersburg South High School in Wood County when he met the victim. Mullins told Jackson County sheriff's detectives the girl was a student in his class.
According to the criminal complaint, Mullins started communicating with the girl via Facebook, requesting nude photos. Sheriff's deputies noted Mullins made several "inappropriate comments and requests."
Mullins, himself, described the conversations as "wildly inappropriate," according to the complaint.
The girl went to her parents after Mullins sent her Facebook messages asking for nude photos. The girl's mother contacted the prevention resource officer at Ravenswood High School. The officer then relayed information to the sheriff's department.
Mullins, who was working as a substitute teacher in the Jackson County school system, was arrested Jan. 3.
Mullins, a 2008 graduate of Ravenswood High School, was a standout basketball player. He is the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,902 points and has the school's career 3-point field goal record with 331. He averaged 19.8 points as a senior.
Mullins was a member of the Red Devils 2006 Class AA state championship team and was named captain of the 2008 Class AA All-state basketball team. He attended Glenville State College.
Mullins waived his preliminary hearing in front of Magistrate Jackie Casto.
Mullins, who is represented by attorney George Cosenza, remains free on bond.


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A 2-ton boulder fell from a Hawaii Kai hillside late on Tuesday night, coming to rest just a few feet away from the living room of a town house there.
It happened in the Lalea at Hawaii Kai complex. It is the same development where falling boulders forced the evacuation of two dozen families five years ago.
The people who live at Lalea said they are lucky no one was hurt or killed when the huge boulder came crashing down overnight. Their lawyer said the landowner and developer have made an "astonishing lack of progress" in fixing the rockslide problem above the homes.
A 4 foot-by-4 foot boulder crashed into a fence outside Catherine Ball's townhouse at Lalea between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
"It woke us up with a big crash, but we initially kind of went back to sleep thinking it was something else. Our neighbors came and woke us up," Ball said.
It came down a hillside, cracking part of a concrete drainage trough, then bouncing about 30 feet onto a roadway, leaving a huge divot and then bouncing another 30 feet, crashing into a fence and stopping just short of hitting the house.
"The way the rock bounced is, again, lucky. It bounced to the left, you know. If it bounced straight, who knows?" Lalea site manager Joe Ornellas said.
"It was good that it took the turn," Ball said.
If it had not, Ball said it might have ended up in her living room.
Residents at the complex said heavy rain fell there just a few hours before the boulder came down.
"It is spooky, very, very spooky. Who'd ever thought it would happen again, you know?" Ornellas said.
Landowner Kamehameha Schools and Lalea's developer, Castle and Cooke, paid about $3 million to clear the hillside of rocks and debris and install wire fencing after boulders came down on the makai portion of the property five years ago.
On Thanksgiving night 2002, two big boulders came down the hillside. They crashed into two parked cars during heavy rains.
Castle and Cooke and Kamehameha Schools told some residents of the Lalea subdivision to leave their homes after a geological survey of the area revealed more dangerous boulders.
Twenty-three families living in two buildings at Lalea moved out for about one year, as the landowner and developer cleared the area and installed fencing there.
The attorney for Lalea's association of apartment owners said the landowner and the developer agreed to add similar safety measures above a home on the valley side of the complex about a year ago. Surveying work of the mountainside has begun, but nothing has been installed yet.
"It is very much a delayed response that's inappropriate and the evidence that it's inappropriate is sitting in the roadway," Lalea attorney Phil Nerney said.
"I feel less safe, because that piece came from a larger piece, and it seems like an important supporting piece," Ball said.
Representatives from Kamehameha Schools and Castle and Cooke did not return calls by KITV about the story.


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1.3.3 Release Notes
This file contains a description of the major changes to ProFTPD for the
1.3.3 release cycle, from the 1.3.3rc1 release to the 1.3.3 maintenance
releases. More information on these changes can be found in the NEWS and
ChangeLog files.
+ Fixed Telnet IAC stack overflow vulnerability (ZDI-CAN-925)
+ Fixed directory traversal bug in mod_site_misc
+ Fixed SQLite authentications using "SQLAuthType Backend"
+ Fixed SFTP directory listing bug
+ Avoid corrupting utmpx databases on FreeBSD
+ Avoid null pointer dereferences during data transfers
+ Fixed "AuthAliasOnly on" anonymous logins
+ Added Japanese translation
+ Many mod_sftp bugfixes
+ Fixed SSL_shutdown() errors caused by OpenSSL 0.9.8m and later
+ Fixed handling of utmp/utmpx format changes on FreeBSD
+ Fixed mod_ban whitelisting using mod_ifsession.
+ Fixed per-user/group/class "HideFiles none" configurations.
+ Fixed mod_tls compilation using OpenSSL installations older than 0.9.7.
+ Fixed mod_sftp compilation on AIX.
+ Fixed RADIUS authentication on 64-bit platforms
+ Fixed memory leak in SCP downloads.
+ New configuration directives
The SQLPasswordUserSalt directive can be used to configure per-user
salt data to be added to the encrypted password for a user. The salt
can be the user name, or it can be the result of a SQL query. More
information can be found in
+ Added Taiwan translation.
+ Added support in mod_sftp for the following SFTP extensions:
+ Added a workaround in mod_tls to deal with the vulnerability found in
SSL/TLS protocol during renegotiation (CVE-2009-3555). Good
descriptions of this vulnerability can be found here:
The workaround implemented in mod_tls (Bug#3324) is one of the suggested
mitigation approaches: the server now refuses all client-initiated
SSL/TLS session renegotiations.
+ Updated to the bundled libtool to 2.2.4 (plus patch) to deal with a
libtool vulnerability (CVE-2009-3736).
+ Added support for SHA256 and SHA512 passwords to the mod_sql_passwd
+ New configuration directives
The SFTPExtensions directive can be used to selectively enable/disable
mod_sftp's support for specific SFTP extensions. See
doc/contrib/mod_sftp.html#SFTPExtensions for more details.
+ Changed configuration directives
The CAP_FOWNER capability can now be explicitly requested when
using the mod_cap module:
CapabilitiesSet +CAP_FOWNER
For operations allowed on files, this capability overrides the
restriction that the file owner ID must match the process user ID.
+ When handling .ftpaccess files, proftpd was merging them into the
main configuration such that the .ftpaccess files configurations would
override the main configuration. This was never the intended behavior,
and has been fixed (Bug#3279).
However, this does mean that sites which use .ftpaccess files may see
a change in the behavior of their proftpd.
+ Changed scoreboard format (Bug#3286), need for "ServerType inetd"
server to manually delete their old ScoreboardFiles. Otherwise they
will see "error opening scoreboard: bad version (too old)" errors.
+ Changed SQL connection policy (Bug#3290). Important for clients which
connect but don't authenticate (e.g. mod_ban, mod_dnsbl, mod_wrap2_sql,
etc which will reject connected clients prior to authentication); saves
on unnecessary database connections in such cases. For sites which
require the old behavior, there is a new "PERCONNECTION" connection
NOTE: If you are using mod_sql for logging purposes only, e.g. you have
the following in your mod_sql config:
SQLEngine log
then this connection policy change may affect you. If the database
connection is opened after a chroot has occurred (via DefaultRoot or
login), the database connection may fail. And since now
the connection is delayed until first use, and the first use for logging
may occur after the chroot, the logging may fail. For such sites, then,
you will need to use the "PERCONNECTION" connection policy explicitly.
+ Support for "implicit" FTPS. To enable this, use:
TLSOptions UseImplicitSSL
WARNING: Using this setting will cause mod_tls to handle ALL connections
to the vhost as implicit FTPS connections. It is NOT possible to support
both plain FTP (or explicit FTPS) clients AND implicit FTPS clients on the
same address/port. Therefore this setting should ONLY ever be used in
order to support braindead/broken FTPS clients, and then only for as long
as it takes to fix/replace those broken clients.
Note that "implicit" FTPS was explicitly DROPPED from the RFC which
defines FTP over SSL/TLS; the only clients which use this feature are
outdated clients based on older, now-invalidated versions of the
specification. Please update your FTPS clients to one which uses
explicit FTPS as soon as possible.
+ Re-enable turning off the Nagle algorithm; this drastically helps speed
up transfers of multiple small files.
+ New modules
This module supports MD5 and SHA1 passwords, encoding using base64 or
hex, from SQL tables. See doc/contrib/mod_sql_passwd.html for details.
+ New configuration directives
In Bug#1896, support for checking some AIX-specific functions for
whether a login should be accepted was added; this happens only on AIX
server, of course.
However, some AIX admins like to configure "rlogin=false", yet still
want to allow FTP logins. To enable this specific behavior, a new
AuthUnixOptions directive was added, with a setting which is only
honored on AIX:
AuthUnixOptions aixNoRLogin
If this setting is used on any other server, it is silently ignored.
Bug#3300 has the full details.
+ Changed configuration directives
You can now disable logging in an section to an ExtendedLog
which was opened outside of the section, i.e.:
ExtendedLog /path/to/ext.log ALL
ExtendedLog /path/to/anon-ext.log ALL
# Disable the logging to the higher-level ExtendedLog by
# configuring again here, but changing the command class to 'NONE'
ExtendedLog /path/to/ext.log NONE
The HiddenStores directive can now be used to customize and change
the prefix which is prepended to the HiddenStore files. The default
prefix is ".in.", but if you wish to use a different prefix for any
reason, you can use something like:
HiddenStores foo
This will cause the prefix to be ".foo.".
When the connection to the database is lost, mod_sql now will try
only once to automatically reconnect (if such reconnect functionality
is supported by the database, e.g. MySQL or Postgres). To disable this
reconnect behavior, there is a new "noReconnect" SQLOptions setting:
SQLOptions noReconnect
See Bug#3270 for the full details of this behavior change. It should
be transparent for most sites.
+ Added French, Bulgarian, Korean translations.
+ RPM 4.2 or later is required by the proftpd.spec file provided in the
+ If the --localstatedir configure option is used, proftpd's build system
used to automatically append "/proftpd" to the configured path. This
behavior has been fixed; proftpd's build system will now use the
configured --localstatedir path as is.
Note that this may cause issues if you have an existing build script
for compling proftpd; the expected locations of files under the
--localstatedir path will change.
+ New command-line options:
The -S, --serveraddr command-line option has been added. This option
can be used to specify the IP address of the host machine. By
default, proftpd attempts to resolve the host IP address by using DNS
resolution of the hostname. However, in cases where DNS is not
configured for the host machine, this approach does not work.
To specify the desired IP address, use -S when starting proftpd, e.g.:
/usr/local/sbin/proftpd -S 126.96.36.199 ...
And if you want proftpd to listen on all interfaces, you can specify
a wildcard socket using an IP address of 0.0.0.0:
/usr/local/sbin/proftpd -S 0.0.0.0 ...
+ New modules:
This module enables execution of external scripts based on actions/events
during a session. See doc/contrib/mod_exec.html for details.
This module implements the SSH2, SFTP, and SCP protocols. See
doc/contrib/mod_sftp.html for more information.
This module uses PAM to provide a 'keyboard-interactive' SSH2
authentication method for mod_sftp. More information can be found in
the documentation for mod_sftp_pam, in doc/contrib/mod_sftp_pam.html.
This module uses SQL (via mod_sql) for looking up authorized SSH2
public keys for user and hostbased authentication. More information
is available in doc/contrib/mod_sftp_sql.html.
This module can be used to provide data transfer rate "shaping"
across the entire server. See the documentation at
This module provides an external SSL session cache using shared
memory; see the TLSSessionCache configuration directive. More
information on this module can be found in
+ New configuration directives:
The RewriteHome directive can be used to support rewriting the
home directory for a user, based on regular expression rules.
One such use case is where some portion of the home directory is
retrieved e.g. from an LDAP directory, but you need to apply some
custom prefix to the LDAP attribute.
To enable this feature, first you need to add the following to your
RewriteHome on
Next, you need to configure the mod_rewrite rules for rewriting your home
directory; this feature depends on mod_rewrite for the rewriting.
The pseudo-command used by mod_rewrite for rewriting home directories is
"REWRITE_HOME". Thus would you use:
RewriteEngine on
RewrlteLog /path/to/rewrite.log
RewriteCondition %m REWRITE_HOME
RewriteRule (.*) /my/new/prefix$1
The ScoreboardScrub directive can be used to turn on/off proftpd's
periodic "scrubbing" of its ScoreboardFile, where the ScoreboardFile
is scanned for entries of dead sessions:
ScoreboardScrub on|off|secs
Note that if scoreboard scrubbing is turned off, the ScoreboardFile
can still be scrubbed on demand, either by using mod_ctrls_admin's
"ftpdctl scoreboard scrub" action, or by using the new ftpscrub
command-line utility.
With the addition of support for external session caches, the
mod_tls module now supports some ftpdctl actions for interacting
with those session caches. The TLSControlsACLs directive can be
used to configure ACLs for the ftpdctl actions supported by mod_tls,
and is analogous to other ACLs directives for other modules which
support ftpdctl actions.
The TLSPKCS12File directive of the mod_tls module is used to
configure mod_tls to use the certificate and private key contained
in the indicated PKCS#12 file. Some sites already use PKCS#12 files
for containing their other certificates, and thus find it useful to
have PKCS#12 support in mod_tls.
The TLSSessionCache directive configures an external SSL session
cache, which can be used for storing and shared SSL sessions across
multiple processes. An external SSL session cache is an optional
facility which speeds up parallel FTPS session connections.
See doc/contrib/mod_tls.html#TLSSessionCache for more information.
+ Changed configuration directives:
This directive no longer supports the optional user/group/class
parameters. If you wish to have per-user/group/class conditional
use of the AllowOverride directive, you will need to use the
mod_ifsession module. For example, instead of:
AllowOverride off user !admin
you will need to use:
AllowOverride on
AllowOverride off
Note that the "!admin" section is necessary. If you set
"AllowOverride off" unconditionally, then use a mod_ifsession context,
you would end up with two AllowOverride settings, and the code might not
be able to distinguish properly which setting to use. Thus you need to
make both the "on" and "off" cases conditional, and mutually exclusive.
Configurations which use the user/group/class conditional parameters
to AllowOverride will now generate configuration errors.
The BanOnEvent directive of the mod_ban module now supports
TimeoutLogin events.
You can now specify an IP address of "0.0.0.0" in a
The default IdentLookups value is now 'off'. The RFC1413 IDENT lookup
adds latency to the login process, so much so that it is a FAQ to
configure "IdentLookups off". In addition, the IDENT protocol is not
secure; it can easily be spoofed using man-in-the-middle attacks. Sites
that require IDENT lookups must now explicitly configure
"IdentLookups on".
Note that in order to use IdentLookups, you must compile proftpd with
the mod_ident module. If you use the --disable-ident configure
option, then proftpd will not recognize the IdentLookups directive.
Thus in your proftpd.conf, you should use something like:
IdentLookups on
if you want to use RFC1413 lookups.
LogFormat, SQLNamedQuery
There is a new variable, %{protocol}, which describes the protocol
that the client is using. This variable can have values of "ftp",
"ftps", "ssh2", "sftp", and "scp".
Note that for SSH2 connections, the value will be "ssh2" until SFTP or
SCP channels are opened; this means that during login, the %{protocol}
value will be "ssh2".
There is also a new %w variable which is only valid for RNTO commands.
The %w value will be the original name of the file being renamed
(mnemonic: "whence" a renamed file comes).
RewriteCondition, RewriteRule
Use of environment variables in mod_rewrite rules is now supported
via the "%{ENV:var}" syntax.
The SQLGroupInfo now supports custom queries for retrieve group
information. Note that instead of a single custom query, several
different queries are needed; different lookups are called for
depending on the situation and configuration of mod_sql (e.g.
using the 'groupset' or 'groupsetfast' SQLAuthenticate parameters).
See doc/contrib/mod_sql.html#SQLGroupInfo and
doc/howto/SQL.html#SQLUsersetfast for more details.
The support for custom SQLUserInfo queries has been extended to
support custom queries to be used when the 'userset' or 'usersetfast'
SQLAuthenticate parameters are used.
For more information, see doc/contrib/mod_sql.html#SQLUserInfo and
The NoSessionReuseRequired option has been added. As of
ProFTPD 1.3.3rc1, mod_tls only accepts SSL/TLS data connections
that reuse the SSL session of the control connection, as a security
measure. Unfortunately, there are some clients (e.g. curl) which
do not reuse SSL sessions.
To relax the requirement that the SSL session from the control
connection be reused for data connections, use the following in the
TLSOptions NoSessionReuseRequired
The TLSRequired directive can now be used in sections and
in .ftpaccess files. When used in these configuration contexts, only
the TLSRequired values that require SSL/TLS protection on data transfers
are honored. With this, it is now possible to mark specific files or
directories as requiring SSL/TLS protection to be accessed via data
The "service-name" field of the TransferLog usually contains just
"ftp". In order to support TransferLogs for SFTP and SCP transfers,
the service-name field of the TransferLog format may now show
"sftp" or "scp". It may also show "ftps" instead of "ftp", if the
data transfer occurred while the client is using FTP over SSL/TLS.
NOTE: This change, while correct, may cause issues for log parsers.
+ Deprecated configuration directives:
Support for this directive has been removed.
+ Developer Notes
If you are a module developer, then you will want to know of the following
API/internals changes:
* The original USER value sent by the client is no longer stored in
the config tree. That is, the following no longer works:
user = get_param_ptr(main_server->conf, C_USER, FALSE);
Instead, the original USER value is stashes in the session.notes
table. Thus the above line of code can be replaced with:
user = pr_table_get(session.notes, "mod_auth.orig-user", NULL);
A similar change occurred for the anonymous "password" sent, but
this will probably not apply to most modules.
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New Zealand Ambassador to the United States John Wood will tour the Dairiconcepts milk plant in Portales' industrial park Tuesday, according to a press release from the City of Portales.
The plant, which employs over 100 people, is a partnership between New Zealand's Fonterra and Dairy Farmers of America, both dairy cooperatives in their respective countries. The New Zealand connection is the link that is bringing the ambassador to Portales.
According to Portales Mayor Orlando Ortega, the ambassador's trip will encompass other cities with connections to the dairy industry as well as Portales. Wood is expected to arrive Monday and tour the plant Tuesday morning.
The company produces milk protein concentrate (MPC) at the Portales plant. Dairy Farmers of America was the first commercial producer of MPC in the United States, according to the news release.
"It gives our community an opportunity to express our gratitude for their interest in our community and Dairiconcepts," said Ortega. "If you look at Fonterra they're a growing industry, a very solid industry and we're happy to have the association."
The United States is Fonterra's single largest export market, worth $500 million annually. Fonterra has 25 manufacturing plants in New Zealand and 35 in other countries, according to the press release.
Ortega plans to join the ambassador on the tour and discuss the economic value of the New Zealand partnership with Portales. Ortega made Wood's acquaintance recently in Washington.
"Once he arrives we'll be able to sit down and talk about economic development opportunities," said Ortega. "This allows us to strengthen our relationship."


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Justice and prosperityJanuary 24,2013The New York Times said the following in an editorial:
When Chief Justice John Roberts congratulated President Barack Obama after he completed his oath of office on Monday, Americans heard the cordial, affirming voice that regularly fills the courtroom of the Supreme Court. But the chief justices graciousness did not mean he was endorsing the president or his views.
As the presidents inaugural address made plain and as important rulings of the Roberts court show, the Obama and Roberts visions of the United States are very different. No disagreement is more fundamental than that about the connection between justice and prosperity.
To Obama, prosperity enables justice and vice versa. Persuasively, he said in his address, Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. He also said, We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else. And commitments to justice, like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, he said, do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.
The Roberts court, on the other hand, with the chief justice in the majority, has regularly ruled as if justice and prosperity are unrelated or even antithetical by protecting large corporations from class-action lawsuits; by making it much harder for private lawsuits to succeed against mutual fund malefactors, even when they have admitted to lying and cheating; or by allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns and advance their narrow interests by exerting influence unjustly over government.
When the chief justice cast his critical vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act last June, he made clear that he did not favor the law, which is the most important commitment to justice and prosperity so far of the Obama administration. He wrote tartly, It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.
The connection between justice and prosperity is clear and strong. Economic growth, the scholar Benjamin Friedman documented, more often than not fosters greater opportunity, tolerance of diversity, social mobility, commitment to fairness and dedication to democracy. And justice of all kinds, especially social justice, is an essential means of achieving prosperity, as economic progress in the South demonstrated after the civil rights laws brought racial progress.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the coming months about the continuing need for a critical section of the Voting Rights Act that prevents racial discrimination and about the basic rights of gay Americans. Those cases are unquestionably about justice and fundamental issues of fairness. But their outcomes will inevitably affect prosperity as well, because they deal with issues of participation in American society and, as a result, in the American economy.
The cameras lingered on Obama after the inaugural ceremony just before he entered the Capitol, as he turned back toward the Mall and took in the crowd of a million or so of the American people whose general welfare he again swore to promote. When Roberts administered the oath, he had a similar chance to be reminded of the multitudes to whom the Supreme Court pledges Equal Justice Under Law and to be reminded of the strong link between justice and prosperity.MORE IN CommentarySure, you can buy your uncle a necktie that he wont wear, or your niece an Amazon certificate... Full StoryA lot of serious long-term national issues simply werent addressed in the recent national election. Full StoryI have written on the anomaly of the separation of the private and public sectors in our society,... Full Story
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Store goes soup to nuts to promote solarBy Bruce Edwards
STAFF WRITER | February 04,2013Albert J. Marro / Staff Photo
Same Sun of Vermont plans to open a retail store on Merchants Row in Rutland in April. The store will carry goods manufactured using solar energy.If you happen to see a can of Campbell Soup and a knit hat on display in the store window at 53 Merchants Row come April, and you scratch your head, both items will have something in common — solar energy.
Phil and Marlene Allen are taking their commitment to solar to the next level by opening Same Sun Choice.
The Allens' retail store will carry a variety of consumer products from Vermont and around the country — all made, at least in part, using solar energy.
Phil Allen said a number of national companies have invested in solar power as part of the manufacturing process, including Campbell Soup and Crayola.
Allen promised the store will carry a "wild" selection of products.
"The only common denominator is going to be that part of the manufacturing was through solar power," he said. "And we're hoping by getting that on the ground level and across the street from Green Mountain Power, people will come in, understand that smart people, smart companies, go solar and that will be encouraging Vermont businesses to go solar."
To start off, Allen will begin stocking the 1,100-square-foot store with national brands. Within two years, he said the goal is to have all Vermont products — anything from maple syrup to knit hats.
For a product to wind up on the store shelves, Allen said a company must use solar for at least a portion of the power used in the manufacturing process.
He said awareness and not profit is the motivating factor.
"It's not all that important to me that we sell much of anything," he said.
Allen credited landlord Mark Foley for finding a way to fill another downtown retail vacancy.
Green Mountain Power is on board with the idea as well.
"Same Sun and the Allens have already brought new life to downtown Rutland, and we look forward to continuing to work with them to improve and expand the revival of the city's core," Mary Powell, president and CEO of GMP, said in a statement.
"The new store is a creative and exciting connection to the Solar Capital concept, and we're thrilled by the Allens' commitment to the effort and downtown Rutland," she said.
Same Sun already operates a solar energy design and installation business around the corner at 24 Center St. The company recently completed the Creek Path Solar Farm on Cleveland Avenue.
The two-year-old company has built dozens of small-scale residential and commercial projects around Rutland County and the state, including a solar array at Alderman's Toyota on South Main Street.
GMP selected the company to build the first solar array in Rutland as part of the utility's commitment to make Rutland the "Solar Capital of New England."
The 150-kilowatt Creek Path Solar Farm was built on a former brownfield owned by GMP. It was completed by Same Sun last month.
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Sean had a hard time getting blessings from all of the bachelorette's parents and siblings. Surprisingly, it was the siblings that were the toughest on the bachelor (especially Des's brother). Sean handled himself well though and he did make good impressions overall. Sean felt so much pressure before meeting each of the ladies's families (I felt so bad, poor guy. He had to meet four sets of parents)!
AshLee and Sean are a little boring together. Their conversation during their picnic was painfully DULL. I've said this over and over again but I do think that AshLee has so much emotional baggage…it might be too much for Sean to handle. I like her a lot and her parents were super sweet but both Ashlee's parents and her seriously lack any sort of excitement. I was in tears when Ashlee's father told the story of how they adopted her (my goodness how sweet was that)! Sean had great one on one time with AshLee's mother and father. They both really liked Sean and could see how happy he made Ashlee. Sean has always had so much respect for AshLee and he gained a lot of respect for her parents last night as well.
Catherine and Sean have a blast together (it's a completely different vibe from his and AshLee's relationship). You can instantly tell that they just enjoy one another's company and they both smile ear to ear when they are around one another. Catherine is super down to earth and I think Sean loves that she is open and willing to try anything (I mean what girls catches raw fish?!?!). I loved how Sean was wearing an apron (he seriously looked adorable) and was able to handle all of the women in the house (Catherine's grandmother was the cutest). Catherine's sisters seemed a little skeptical about whether or not Catherine is ready to settle down with Sean (I think she is but she hasn't met the one yet and Sean could be the one to change her). Because Catherine's sisters were so open with him I think that showed just how comfortable they felt with him so I didn't necessarily see it as a bad thing. That of course did not put Sean's feelings at ease BUT I do think that the chemistry between the two of them is real and I think he feels that.
Lindsay is still not growing on me. I really want to give her a chance because I know how much Sean likes her. I was surprised about how nervous Sean was to meet her family, especially her dad! But I guess anyone would be scared. I liked that Lindsay made things light hearted and eased him into things (she was trying to act so tough on him like he was in the Army and he was only taking things half seriously haha). I was laughing so hard when Sean asked her what he should call her dad and Lindsay didn't know. Sean and Lindsay have a great connection and you can tell by looking at him that the spark is there. Both Lindsay's mother and father were very kind people. Despite how nervous Sean was, Lindsay's father (he is a general in the army-yikes and omg Lindsay looks exactly like him) gave his blessing to Sean. Sean seemed to feel very at ease with Lindsay's family and I think out of all of the ladies, Sean felt the most comfortable with her family.
Des's brother was unfortunately one of the main reasons why I think Sean didn't pick her in the end. And Des's prank was a little much and a little corny but I guess she did want to get Sean back! I could tell something was off but I was surprised Des pulled that off! Des's parent were very nerdy but nice. They obviously both really liked Sean but Des's brother was another story. He was so rude and you could tell how upset he made Sean (he even called him a play boy). After their talk, things were extremely tense and I knew right then and there that Sean was going to send Des home. He is such a huge family man so I knew that he would like to be able to get along with his brother in law. Des was devastated after Sean left; she obviously did not want the night to end like that.
Sean really struggled with who to send home. He had to walk away multiple times to clear his head and made the toughest decision yet. Des pulled Sean aside to apologize for her brother's behavior. It took a lot for Des to do that and I do respect her for being open and honest with Sean. You could tell Sean appreciated her doing that as well.
Unfortunately for Des, it didn't help. Sean gave Catherine the rose and I think that was probably the most intense rose ceremony in bachelor history! And that tearful goodbye with Des was just too hard to watch. He repeatedly said he wasn't sure he made the right decision (I wonder if he regrets that now?).
Tonight there is a special Sean Tell All. The bachelor will answer all of our questions including why he really let Des go, if he still has feelings for Sarah and he will have answers to all of our burning tierra-ble questions!
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Woodson uses alot of the spacing MDA employed when he was with the Knicks.
He has clearly benefitted from working under D' ant.
Not to deminish the impact that other coaches have had on him, but to say that MDA hasn't had an influence would be preposterous.
How many pick and rolls with guys spaced along the 3 pt line the same way do we have to run for people to see/admit this.
Admittedly, the offense looks more effective because we move the ball better and due to personel reason and also because we have complete buy in from Melo.


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The water cooler runs dryApril 09,2014If youre closing in on 50 but want to feel much, much older, teach a college course. Im doing that now, at 49, and hardly a class goes by when I dont make an allusion that prompts my students to stare at me as if I just dropped in from the Paleozoic era.
Last week I mentioned the movie They Shoot Horses, Dont They? Only one of the 16 students had heard of it. I summarized its significance, riffling through the Depression, with which they were familiar, and Jane Fondas career, with which they werent. Barbarella went sailing over their heads. I didnt dare test my luck with talk of leg warmers and Ted Turner.
I once brought up Vanessa Redgrave. Blank stares. Greta Garbo. Ditto. We were a few minutes into a discussion of an essay that repeatedly invoked Prousts madeleine when I realized that almost none of the students understood what the madeleine signified or, for that matter, who this Proust fellow was.
And these are young women and men bright and diligent enough to have gained admission to Princeton University, which is where our disconnect is playing out.
The bulk of that disconnect, obviously, is generational. Seemingly all of my students know who Gwyneth Paltrow is. And with another decade or two of reading and living and being subjected to fossils like me, theyll assemble a richer inventory of knowledge and trivia, not all of it present-day.
But the pronounced narrowness of the cultural terrain that they and I share the precise limits of the overlap suggests something additional at work. In a wired world with hundreds of television channels, countless byways in cyberspace and all sorts of technological advances that permit each of us to customize his or her diet of entertainment and information, are common points of reference dwindling? Has the personal niche supplanted the public square?
Both literally and figuratively, the water-cooler show is fading fast, a reality underscored by a fact that I stumbled across in last weeks edition of The New Yorker: In the mid-1970s, when the sitcom All in the Family was Americas top-rated television series, more than 50 million people would tune in to a given episode. That was in a country of about 215 million.
I checked on the No. 1 series for the 2012-13 television season. It was NCIS, an episode of which typically drew fewer than 22 million people, even counting those who watched a recording of it within a week of its broadcast. Thats out of nearly 318 million Americans now.
NCIS competes against an unprecedented bounty of original programming and more ways to see new and old shows than ever, what with cable networks, subscription services, YouTube, Apple TV and Aereo. Yahoo just announced that it was jumping into the fray and, like Netflix and Amazon, would develop its own shows.
In movies, theres a bevy of boutique fare that never even opens in theaters but that you can order on demand at home. In music, streaming services and Internet and satellite radio stations showcase a dizzying array of songs and performers, few of whom attain widespread recognition. In books, self-publishing has contributed to a marked rise in the number of titles, but it doesnt take an especially large crowd of readers for a book to become a best-seller. Everyones on a different page.
With so very much to choose from, a person can stick to one or two preferred microgenres and subsist entirely on them, while other people gorge on a completely different set of ingredients. You like Housewives? Savor them in multiple cities and accents. Food porn? Stuff yourself silly. Vampire fiction? The vein never runs dry.
I brought up this Balkanization of experience with Hendrik Hartog, the director of the American studies program at Princeton, and he noted that whats happening in popular culture mirrors what has transpired at many elite universities, where survey courses in literature and history have given way to meditations on more focused themes.
Theres enormous weight given to specialized knowledge, he said. It leaves an absence of connective tissue for students. Not for nothing, he observed, does his Princeton colleague Daniel Rodgers, an emeritus professor of history, call this the age of fracture.
It has enormous upsides, and may be for the best. No single, potentially alienating cultural dogma holds sway. A person can find an individual lens and language through which his or her world comes alive.
And because makers of commercial entertainment dont have to chase an increasingly apocryphal mass audience, they can produce cultish gems, like Girls on HBO and Louie on FX.
But each fosters a separate dialect. Finding a collective vocabulary becomes harder. Although Im tempted to tell my students that they make me feel like the 2,000-year-old man, I wont. I might have to fill them in first on Mel Brooks.
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If you talk to any senior J2EE developers today, many of them will be happy to provide you with details on the different EJB types or how to use JMS to send and receive asynchronous messages. However, it may be difficult to find someone to describe a deployment architecture that can ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. One reason for the lack of understanding by many developers on deployment architecture is that the J2EE specification contains few details on application deployment, leaving most up to individual vendors. This leads to confusion, as each vendor devises its own unique way of deploying J2EE applications. In this article, we will first describe the different J2EE modules and the different packaging structures. Afterwards, we will discuss possible deployment architectures and some of the deployment issues to consider during the design and implementation of a J2EE application.
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Our discussion assumes that you already have some understanding of the core J2EE technology and are comfortable with technologies such as servlets, JSP, EJB, and XML. For details of the J2EE specification, please visit the Sun J2EE web site.
J2EE 1.3 supports the packaging of J2EE applications into different deployable modules. There are two families of J2EE modules:
Basically, a Web Application Archive (WAR file) is used to deploy a web-based application. This file may contain servlets, HTML files, JSPs, and all associated images and resource files. On the other hand, an Enterprise Application Archive (EAR file) is a meta-container and may contain EJBs, resource adapters, and one or more web application modules. One area of consideration when packaging enterprise applications is the number of EAR files an application should use: should I include all of my EJBs in one EAR, or put each of them in different EAR files? This decision could have an impact on the performance, scalability, and maintainability of the application. We will discuss this further. For details on the individual module types, please refer to the J2EE 1.3 specification (PDF).
ClassLoader Relationship
One area that is often overlooked during the design of a J2EE application
is the
ClassLoader relationship between different module types. The Java
Virtual Machine (JVM) uses the
ClassLoader to locate and load
Class objects into memory. By default, the
will use the path information specified in the
environment variable to locate classes. It is also possible for an application
to provide its own
ClassLoader, a well-known example being the
used by the Servlet Engine to locate and initiate classes from a URL.
Depending on the implementation of the J2EE application server, there are at
least 3 levels of
Figure 1.
ClassLoader relationship
As illustrated in Figure 1, the application server is using the
SystemClassLoader and it will only see resources on the system
CLASSPATH. There is a separate
ClassLoader within each EAR, RAR,
and WAR module. The exact relationship of these
ClassLoaders is not clearly
defined, but typically there is a parent-child relationship between the 4
ClassLoaders, whereby the child
ClassLoader will be able to locate
classes that are visible in the parent
ClassLoader, but not vice versa. In the
case of J2EE, the
SystemClassLoader is the parent of all EAR Classloaders,
where an EAR
ClassLoader is the parent of the WAR, and RAR
ClassLoader of the
enclosing WAR and RAR files.
Figure 2.
ClassLoader Parent-Child Relationship
According to the Java specification, a child
ClassLoader must use its parent
ClassLoader first to locate a class before it will attempt to locate the class
itself. This may sound non-intuitive at first, but is necessary to prevent
ambiguity and conflict when there are multiple
ClassLoaders within the same
JVM. Some application servers allow you the option to change the lookup
behavior of the EAR or WAR
ClassLoader, but this is not recommended, as it can
lead to other types of problems (e.g.,
ClassCastException may occur if you
have two versions of the same class in different
The visibility restrictions between the different
ClassLoaders will affect
the choices you can make when packaging a J2EE application, especially when
dealing with resources and libraries.
A typical Three-tier enterprise application is organized into three major tiers:
In a large-scale enterprise solution, each tier will be deployed in separate domains to allow each domain to scaled differently based on business needs. In addition, load balancers may be deployed in front of the presentation tier to improve availability and support better fail-over. The business and data tiers tend to rely on clustering technology to provide fail-over support. The following diagram outlines the basic deployment architecture:
Figure 3. Typical Three-tier Deployment Architecture
Depending on the actual business use cases, there may be variations on the above architecture.
For a J2EE application, the presentation tier is usually handled through the use of servlets and JSPs, which can be packaged as one or more WAR files. The business tier is usually handled through the use of session beans (either stateless or stateful), which may be packaged as one or more EAR files. The data tier is usually handled through the use of entity beans (which control access to database resources) or a resource adapter (which controls access to legacy or non-JDBC resources), which may be packaged as one or more EAR files. The following diagram shows the same deployment architecture with specific J2EE resources and modules:
Figure 4. Java Enterprise Application Deployment Architecture
Deploying a J2EE application based on the above structure will provide the greatest flexibility, but there are other considerations that must come into play before the deployment architecture can be finalized.
It is common understanding that remote calls are more expensive and take longer to execute than local calls. During a remote procedure call, the local proxy objects must make copies of all of the arguments and transport them over the wire, through RMI, to the remote objects, resulting in increased network traffic and slower response time.
Consider the scenario where the user issues a command through a web page, which in turn invokes the servlet, followed by the processing of the business method in the session bean and entity bean. At least four network operations may occur, two of which are remote EJB calls:
Figure 5. Remote Call Sequence in a Typical Business Operation
In the case where a session bean may call other session beans or multiple entity beans, additional remote calls will be made. If performance is a top priority concern, adjustments must be made in the architecture and design to reduce the number of remote calls or reduce the cost of a remote call.
There are multiple ways to address this performance problem:
If the access interfaces are too fine-grained, it results in excessive network traffic and high latency. One must investigate the architecture and design to ensure the right level of granularity is being used. There are several J2EE design patterns that can control granularity. The two most famous are transfer object and Session Facade. Since the focus of our discussion is on deployment and packaging, please refer to the J2EE Blueprints web site to learn more about these patterns.
J2EE 1.3 introduces the concept of local enterprise beans. This will allow an entity bean to expose a local interface, thus allowing parameters to be passed by reference rather than by value. However, in order for a session bean to access local enterprise beans, the local enterprise beans must be packaged in the same EAR file as the session bean. There are two ways to achieve this:
Some J2EE application servers (e.g., BEA WebLogic) may optimize remote calls between beans (see the WebLogic Reference Document on Classloading) into local calls if the beans are in the same enterprise application. This is especially beneficial if one session bean may call multiple session beans or entity beans. There are drawbacks with this approach as well:
Another area where we should consider is the location of common resources
and libraries. One rule of thumb is that a resource should go together with
the J2EE modules that use it. However, if you have the case where a common
resource is being used by several modules, you may want to place it where it is
accessible by all of the modules. In addition, it is a bad practice to put
resources in your system
CLASSPATH as they may cause conflict with
other J2EE modules deploying in the same container. This will also limit your
options in terms of hot deployment.
Let's consider for a moment that there is a .properties file (a
resource bundle) containing information that is required by several web
applications. Because of the inherited
ClassLoader relationship and isolation
level, there are three ways to place this file:
CLASSPATH. This solves the first problem of the need to
modify multiple copies of the same file. However, this approach also limits
your re-deployment options, as resources loaded by the
SystemClassLoader can
only be reloaded if you restart the JVM. In this case, changes you make to
your resources may not be picked up until you restart the application server.
For J2EE solutions where high availability is a concern, this will result in a
more complicated system maintenance sequence.
ClassLoader may look into the EAR
ClassLoader for
resources. This system allows the greatest flexibility, as there is now only
one place to update the resources. The update will take effect immediately if
the enterprise application is re-deployed (provided that the application server
supports hot re-deployment of EAR files). However, in order for each WAR to
locate the resource, you must put the path to the resource bundles in the
MANIFEST file of the WAR package.
It is not unusual for a J2EE project to include third-party software that is
freely available (e.g., Apache's
log4j). In this situation, it is usually
better to place the JAR files for those libraries in a designated location in
the EAR. The libraries should only be placed on the system
CLASSPATH if the libraries will not conflict with existing
libraries used by the application server and if the need to change or update
those libraries is small. If you decide to put the common libraries inside of an
EAR module, please make sure:
ClassLoaders, you must put
the path to the third-party libraries in the
MANIFEST files of the
J2EE modules, including WAR and EJB files.
J2EE allows the development of highly scalable and highly available solutions in a relatively easy manner. As a result, a J2EE deployment architecture cannot be considered complete unless considerations are made for scalability and availability requirements.
As mentioned in the beginning of Section 2, splitting the application into multiple deployment units at different tiers will provide the most flexible scalability model. However, careful considerations must be made to ensure that you have the proper granularity and modularity to balance between flexibility and performance.
Hot deployment is the ability to deploy and re-deploy an enterprise
application without the need to stop and restart the application server. If
hot deployment is a requirement for your application, take care to ensure that
application resources, dependent third-party libraries, and other enterprise
modules are packaged in a self-contained manner. Avoid building any dependency
on the system
CLASSPATH. Ensure that everything an enterprise
application module may require is packaged within the same EAR file.
Depending on the security requirements of the application, different security mechanisms (SSL, VPN, J2EE module declarative security model) can be implemented between tiers to provide security to the method level. Although the J2EE specification describes the level of security support required by the application server, it does not dictate how security should be implemented; as a result, security implementation is vendor-specific. If your application requires the propagation of security identities between different security domains (as with distributed security), you should definitely consult with the vendor, as there may be restrictions that would limit your choices in deployment architecture.
In an ideal world, all of the system administrators that you will come across would be intimately familiar with J2EE and the application server. However, it is not uncommon to find out that although your system administrator is a UNIX or Windows expert, he or she really does not know much about J2EE. So, for the benefit of those who will be deploying and managing the application on a day-to-day basis, having clearly documented deployment steps is a must. It would be even better to provide deployment scripts that automate the deployment of your applications. Many application server vendors today provide a way to deploy applications either through the vender-specific administration console or the command line, or through the Java Management Extension (JMX) API (e.g., the BEA WebLogic Management API). However, because of the different deployment mechanisms used by different vendors, you need to create different scripts for different platforms.
As more and more J2EE applications are written, it becomes crucial for the J2EE specification to define a common standard whereby applications can be packaged and deployed. J2EE 1.3 provides some specification with the packaging standard; however, there are still no standards on how to deploy an application — this is where the initiative like JSR 88 (the J2EE Deployment API) comes in.
The goal of the JSR is to define a standard API set that will enable any deployment tool to deploy any J2EE modules onto a compliant J2EE application server. Specifically, the standard addresses the following areas of concern:
At this point, the JSR will be included as part of the J2EE 1.4 specification. With this new API, an application vendor may now create deployment tools or scripts that can automatically deploy his applications into different application servers without worrying about the differences in the deployment functions. However, there are still a number of areas that are not addressed by the JSR:
DataSources, and JMS, are still very much vendor-specific at this
Deployment is still an area in J2EE in which many developers are unfamiliar. If deployment issues are not considered during the architecture and design phases, you could easily run into situations that could lead to architecture and design changes. As illustrated above, there are many areas of consideration that should be taken into account from the beginning to ensure that your application will meet your scalability, performance, and availability requirements.
Allen Chan is the Director of Product Development for Wysdom Inc.
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HEBRON – United's Allison Parks is starting her senior cross country season the same place where her junior season ended – on the podium at National Trail Raceway.
Parks finished third out of 155 runners at the OHSAA Early Season Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. She completed the 3.1-mile race in 20 minutes, 12.39 seconds.
Parks took 13th place at the Division III state meet last year.
Alter senior Alex Groene was first in the Section D race Saturday (19:25.31) and London senior Sarra Taylor was second (19:38.39).
United junior Natalie Gamble finished 56th (23:58.68).
In the Section B boys race, United senior James Kataro was 25th (17:52.67) and United junior Vincent Zehentbauer was 108th (20:19.47) out of 206 runners. Northwestern senior Shane Berger was first (16:31.70).
The Minerva boys competed in the Section F boys race.
Kings topped 21 teams with 79 points. Minerva was 15th with 392 points.
There were 177 runners in the race with Turpin sophomore Alaeldin Tirba winning in 16:23.43.
For Minerva, sophomore Alec Mueller was 40th (18:32.89), junior Duncan Freeland 56th (18:54.39), senior John Hartwig 96th (20:01.14), junior Garrett Spardy 105th (20:35.38), freshman Seth McGee 130th (21:35.22), sophomore Jacob Martin 155th (23:48.01), junior Martin Merrick 157th (23:59.68) and senior Cameron Canonico 163rd (25:35.04).
Minerva also ran in the Section H girls race, finishing 15th out of 17 teams with 402 points. Four-time defending state champion Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary had five of the top 11 runners to win with 35 points and Carrollton was sixth with 174 points.
For the Minerva girls, junior Emmalee Carver was 65th (23:49.02), sophomore Lindsey Brust 82nd (24:40.94), sophomore Morgan Studer 103rd (25:53.71), freshman Nora Yankovich 105th (26:07.80), freshman Reiley Cowart 107th (26:17.75), senior Casey bates 131st (28:39.55) and sophomore Libby Zurbrugg 136th (29:21.62).
Butler freshman Emma Bryant won the race in 19:41.52.
Carrollton had a pair of high finishers on Saturday.
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"I am both... and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending."
The Guardian of Forever was a construct of an unknown, ancient alien race that functioned as a time portal, a gateway to the time vortex that allowed access to other times and dimensions. It was located on an ancient planet where the focus of all timelines throughout at least the Milky Way Galaxy converged. It was apparently sentient, responding to external stimulus such as questions and actions, and could even somehow control the flow of time. It generated immense ripples in time that manifested themselves as spatial disturbances in the region around the planet where it was located.
The Guardian is located among the ruins of a large, forgotten city that stretched beyond the horizon in all directions around it. Based on initial observations, the ruins appeared to be at least one million years old.
Capable of speaking to those around it, the Guardian explained that it is "its own beginning and its own ending," and that, "since before your sun (Sol) burned hot in space, [it had] awaited a question." Apparently an inert formation of quasi-metallic substance, the Guardian creates portals to other times.
The Guardian was first discovered by the crew of the USS Enterprise in 2267. Encountering powerful waves of space displacement, which Spock described as "ripples in time", the Enterprise tracked the waves back to their point of origin on a previously-uncharted planet. Doctor McCoy, suffering from paranoid delusions as a result of an accidental overdose of cordrazine, beamed down to the surface in an attempt to escape the ship. Searching for McCoy, Captain Kirk and Spock encountered and made contact with the Guardian, who offered them the chance to explore the past. As the Guardian was displaying images from Earth history, McCoy emerged from hiding and leapt through the time portal, arriving on Earth in the year 1930.
The landing party soon discovered that they had lost all contact with the Enterprise, and the Guardian informed them that McCoy had effected a change in history, wiping out their civilization. Realizing that they must correct the damage to history, Kirk and Spock had the Guardian replay Earth history, and traveled through the portal to a point in time prior to McCoy's arrival. Eventually successful in their effort to restore the timeline, the Guardian returned all three of them to their proper place and time, mere moments after they initially departed. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
In 2269, a team of historians, accompanied by Captain Kirk and Spock, used the Guardian to investigate Federation history. Their investigation included firsthand accounts of the formation of the Orion civilization and the monitoring of Vulcan history of the 2230s and 2240s. While Kirk and Spock were visiting Orion, their support team was monitoring Vulcan's past, which, in doing so, inadvertently removed Spock from the proper timeline. Spock, however, was protected from the change while he was in Orion's past, and the change to the timeline went unnoticed until he and Kirk returned through the Guardian. Once the cause was determined, Spock was able to use the Guardian to return to his own childhood on Vulcan, and prevent his death during the kahs-wan ritual. (TAS: "Yesteryear")
Images seen through the Guardian of Forever Edit
Appendices Edit
Background information Edit
In the original teleplay for "The City on the Edge of Forever", the Guardians of the Time Vortex were 9-foot (2.7 meter) tall, humanoid statue-like beings.
The original Guardian was designed by Desilu Supervising Art Director Rolland M. Brooks, because his colleague, regular Set Designer Matt Jefferies, was sick with the flu that week. (Star Trek: The Animated Series DVDs special feature ""Yesteryear" text commentary") When Jefferies returned to his duties and saw the lopsided donut-shaped set piece for the first time, he reportedly exclaimed, "What the hell is this?!" according to Story Editor DC Fontana. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed, p. 517) Special Effects Artist Jim Rugg was responsible for the light effects for the Guardian. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 17, No. 2, p. 24) The voice of the Guardian was performed by Bart LaRue in "The City on the Edge of Forever".
The Guardian's last words in "The City on the Edge of Forever" were: "Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway." Although this suggests that further stories could have been written involving the Guardian of Forever, the Guardian's only other on-screen canonical role was in the animated episode "Yesteryear". In that installment, its voice was performed by James Doohan.
An original draft of the episode that eventually became TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" featured a Vulcan science team researching history through the Guardian of Forever. In that story, the team accidentally caused the death of Surak, the father of modern Vulcan philosophy – as a result, the Time of Awakening never occurred, and the Vulcan race had essentially evolved as the Romulans. The timeline was reset when Sarek, aboard the Enterprise-D to greet the scientists, used the Guardian to go back in time and take Surak's place in history. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
During production on the film Star Trek, it was briefly rumored that the Guardian would be used by the Romulans to go back in time. [1]
Apocrypha Edit
The Guardian appears in the game Star Trek Online in a mission involving the players character breaking the quarantine of the guardian's planet. The player must travel through the portal in order to follow a group of Klingons and stop them from destroying the Enterprise from the Original series and rescue Miral Paris, who they kidnapped to create and distribute a cure to the Klingon augment virus. Also, if you question the Guardian about why it speaks in riddles, it gives the same response that it did to Spock: that it answers as simply as their limited understanding allows.
In the novel Yesterday's Son, Kirk and Spock use the Guardian to rescue Spock's son Zar from the ancient, doomed world of Sarpeidon. They also discover that Zar is able to communicate telepathically with the Guardian. In the novel's sequel Time for Yesterday, the Guardian is summoned away from its duties of regulating time in the Milky Way by its capricious Creators. Zar uses his telepathic powers to return the consciousness of the Guardian to the gateway and banish the Creators to a universe where they cannot harm our space-time.
In the novel Engines of Destiny, the Guardian appears in an alternate timeline where the Borg have conquered Earth and an alternate Guinan, having learned of the change, has gone to the Guardian's planet to ask for help, and the Guardian reveals how to restore the timeline to normal.
In the novel The Devil's Heart, the titular object, an ancient stone rumored to have vast powers, is revealed to be a "seed" created by the same civilization who created the Guardian, and meant to create another Guardian on the world it was sent to, before it went astray.
In the novel First Frontier, members of the Clan Ru, a species whose pre-sentient ancestors - Earth dinosaurs - had been rescued by the Preservers before the mass extinction, used the Guardian to destroy the asteroid which would hit Earth, allowing their species to remain and evolve there. The timeline would be reset by Kirk, with the assent of the Clan Ru, when they discovered that in this altered history, their species destroyed itself in a series of nuclear wars before it could reach the stars.
In the Q Continuum series, the Guardian is used by a younger Q when attempting to find something new, allowing him to make contact with the being known as 0 (although the Guardian briefly tries to deny 0 access to this universe), who subsequently contacts (*), Gorgan and The One via the Guardian. It is hinted here that the Guardian was built by the race that would eventually evolve into the Q – when looking at the Guardian, the young Q comments "At least our ancestors made things", reflecting his dejection at the stagnant nature of the Q Continuum – but the veracity of this is uncertain, and given the nature of the Guardian, Q's comments might have been influenced by images he perceived within it.
In the alternate future seen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book trilogy Millennium the Guardian of Forever was key to Admiral Kathryn Janeway's Project Forever. Janeway, along with a combined Federation/Borg armada hoped to use the Guardian to go back in time and wipe out Bajor (the Federation was at war with the Bajoran Ascendancy in this timeline and were facing the end of the universe). However, at the very moment that Janeway and a team arrived at the Guardian, the Grigari set off a singularity bomb, creating a black hole that destroyed the entire Federation/Borg fleet, the Grigari fleet, Janeway, and the Guardian. The timeline was later reset by Benjamin Sisko and the crew of Deep Space 9.
In the alternate future presented in Imzadi, set in 2406, Admiral Riker used the Guardian to travel back in time to save Deanna Troi's life from an attempt to kill her and prevent her participation in a conference in 2366. In the timeline where she died, the species involved went on to secretly rebuild and become a major military power, but with her survival, Troi's empathic powers revealed that they were lying to gain time, and the conference was abandoned until the species was in desperate need of assistance and were subsequently permitted to rebuild under strict observation. Although the future Data also attempts to travel back in time to maintain continuity (Riker is convinced to travel back after a new autopsy reveals that Troi was killed by a poison that was only developed after her death, suggesting that Troi was killed by a time-traveler, but Data feels that Riker is clutching at straws as the poison in her system could have been a natural fluke), it is revealed at the conclusion of the novel that history had already been changed, and Riker's actions actually set it back on the right path, with the travelers incredulous at the idea that the Guardian never told them that detail simply because they never asked.
In Spock Vs. Q, Spock mentions having used the Guardian to travel back to the 20th century. Q describes it as "that lop-sided donut thing" before Spock corrects him, and asks him if he knows it. Q responds "been there, done that, got the T-shirt."
In the novel Provenance of Shadows, the Enterprise returns to the Guardian for a third time, just before the end of its original 5-year mission. They respond to a distress call from the science station erected in orbit of the Guardian's planet. Three Klingon ships attack the station and the Enterprise. They are successful in boarding the Enterprise's bridge and manage to take over the ship, forcing the crew to abandon ship, but Captain Kirk manages to escape, obtain several phasers, and transport down to the planet. There, he steps through the Guardian and ends up back on the Enterprise's bridge moments before the Klingons boarded. As the crew evacuates the bridge, Kirk sets the phasers on overload, and sacrifices himself to kill the Klingons, but his now-alternate timeline counterpart survives. As a last resort, the Klingons crash their ship into the Guardian, apparently destroying it.
The image of the sailing ship firing its cannons seen in the Guardian's portal is also later seen in the intro to the mirror universe episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.
A 1978 story in an issue of the Gold Key Star Trek comic, entitled "No Time Like the Past", features the Guardian.
In the short story "Guardians" (from the anthology Strange New Worlds VII), the Horta are assigned by the Federation to serve as the protectors of the Guardian after a failed attack/attempt to alter the timeline by the Romulans. Since their lifespan extends for the next 40,000 years, they are witnesses to vast changes in the Federation, the ascendancy of humanity to incorporeal beings and the eventual exploration of the known universe and beyond. The Guardian undergoes periodic attacks and attempted usage from the Borg, the Romulans and the Crystalline Entity, each time defeated by the Horta.
The Guardian is also featured in the novel The Star to Every Wandering, in which it plays a sizeable role. In this novel, the events of the film Star Trek Generations play out differently, with Kirk's emergence from the Nexus resulting in a temporal loop with catastrophic effects. This Kirk, returned to the Nexus by these events, then recruits another version of himself from within the Nexus, who then rescues yet another Kirk from the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) by employing the Guardian of Forever to travel through time. This third Kirk then travels to Veridian III and dies helping Picard save the solar system, while the second Kirk ends up contemplating using the Guardian to travel back in time and save Edith Keeler's life without damaging history.
See also Edit
- The City on the Edge of Forever, the original story outline and screenplay published by Harlan Ellison
- The Nexus: a formless, infinite plane of existence shaped by its inhabitants' individual desires and dreams; where the rules of the physical universe, such as that of time and space, don't apply. Should anyone wish to leave, they could literally go to any point in the spacetime continuum of their choosing. (Star Trek Generations)
External link Edit
- Guardian of Forever at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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