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Presented to the Mānoa Faculty Senate on February 16, 2005
To: The Faculty Senate of the University of Hawaii
From: Bart Abbott
Political Science Undergraduate Student, University of Hawaii-Manoa
1346 B 10th Ave. Honolulu, Hi 96816
(920) 217-0107
If the Board of Regents, and the Faculty Senate policy is going to allow classified research to be conducted by the University of Hawaii in any form, then an Oversight Committee on Classified Research consisting of Faculty members and students should be created.
The Oversight Committee on Classified Research will serve three purposes:
- Safeguard against any potential contracts which could be detrimental to the reputation of the University of Hawaii, or its employees.
- Maintain an environment which demands maximum possible disclosure concerning the nature of the classified research being conducted.
- Monitor the influence of outside entities, such as high technology development corporations, on the decisions of classified research by or in affiliation with the university.
The Board of Regents should mandate the existence of an Oversight Committee on Classified Research in a new amendment of their policy, section 5-15 on Research. This amendment should outline the responsibilities of the Oversight Committee on Classified Research including:
- Maintain a list of all classified contracts that are currently being conducted by, or in affiliation with the university. This list shall include each principle investigator, a brief description of the nature of the research, the amount of money designated under the contract, and the governmental department or corporation with whom the contract was agreed.
- Notify the Faculty Senate, The Board of Regents, and Ka Leo O Hawaii, when the Oversight Committeedeems unacceptable the rate at which classified contracts are being acquired, or when one contract in particular has become harmful to the academic environment of the University of Hawaii.
- Take necessary measures to protest, and prevent any decisions regarding classified research, or new facilities where classified research could be done, that have been compromised by the influence of outside entities who have a stake in the outcome of the University's decision.
The new amendment by the Board of Regents will give the Oversight Committee three powers. These include:
- Members of the "managerial group" designated by the Department of Defense form DD 254 to be in charge of the approval of all classified contracts, must accommodate and facilitate the oversight committee by submitting its requests for the release of information to the necessary government officials.
- Members of the "managerial group" are required to notify the Oversight Committee when any formerly unclassified project at the university is newly designated "sensitive" or "classified" by the U.S. government.
- The Oversight Committee on Classified Research has the right to access all unclassified information regarding classified research affiliated with the University of Hawaii.
An Oversight Committee on Classified Research consisting of Faculty and Students, given the above powers and responsibilities by the Board of Regents, will:
- Promote maximum openness and accountability within the university, and create a higher level of general knowledge surrounding the issue of classified research.
- Act as a community archive where community members can access unclassified information about classified research being conducted at the university and any of its affiliated facilities, or corporations.
- Prevent outside entities, be they private corporations, government departments, or former employees of the University from unjustly influencing the decisions of the university.
My Recent Findings
I started my investigation on classified research at the University of Hawaii in the Fall of 2002. I had obtained a list of the classified contracts at UH as of May 23, 2001. My original mission was to get an updated version of this list. For reasons that I have not yet ascertained, since 2001 this has become a very difficult request.
I learned from a series of interviews with Jim Gaines, Vice President for Research, in the fall of 2004 that virtually any information pertaining to a classified contract was now considered "sensitive" information and permission to release this information had to be requested, then granted by the federal government before the University released any thing about what they were doing at their own facilities.
For instance, if I wanted to find out the principal investigator and what part of the Department of Defense was funding a particular classified contract on campus, I would have to submit a written request to Jim Gaines stating what I wanted to know and why I wanted to know it. Dr. Gaines would then have to ask the necessary government officials for permission to release this information to me. If they said no, then I was simply out of luck.
I also had to ask for specific information, and write out individual requests for each one. My chance at finding all the classified contracts affiliated with the university, filling out written requests for all the information, getting Dr. Gaines to submit them, and then finally getting the government to consent became a very cumbersome, next to impossible task.
The system is set up so that no single individual can gain a great deal of information on the research objectives of the military at our university. This could be considered a necessary security precaution; however, this system has caused a larger systemic problem. Practically no one, save for the members of the "managerial group" and the researchers themselves is aware of the classified research being done by the University of Hawaii.
Over the course of my investigation, I have been the one to inform numerous faculty and administrators that there is classified research being done at UH. In one case several faculty members did not know that a close colleague was doing classified work for the military.
This was the case with the Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery (AHI) project. The principal investigator is Paul Lucey. I have spoken to several tenured professors of the Physics department, and one researcher in the Geophysics department who have worked with Paul Lucey and are familiar with his work, yet they were not aware that AHI technology has been rented by the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and used to do classified research for the United States Military. I learned this because the AHI project was on the list of contracts released on May 23, 2001. I verified it in an interview with Paul Lucey.
The fact that classified research for the military has gone on, for at least four years without the majority of the University knowing about it, illuminates a very real danger of doing classified research at the University of Hawaii.
Classified Research and the funding it brings in can cause hidden agendas, and motivations in faculty and upper level administration. This can affect the direction of a university without the knowledge or consent of its majority.
We, at the University of Hawaii must be particularly careful of this happening. I do not believe all the motivations, reasons, and agendas for or against classified research are currently visible.
The majority of this University's constituency does not even know general information about the type of classified research being done.
There is not a current list where someone could find out this information.
The current Board of Regents' and the Faculty Senate's policies on classified research are not even in line with the current practice.
And yet, as of this moment, the University of Hawaii is looking into accepting 50 million dollars from the Navy over the next five years to create a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), where classified and unclassified military research could be conducted.
I am not arguing for or against a UARC. I am saying we, as a university, currently do not have the capability of making a major decision on this issue. There are a number of things that must be brought out into the open, discussed, debated, and agreed upon before conversations about a UH-UARC take on any degree of seriousness.
First, the Faculty Senate and the Board of Regents need to adopt the same policy on classified research. This policy should establish the existence of an Oversight Committee on Classified Research. The Oversight Committee should be made a standing committee as long as classified research continues to exist at the University of Hawaii.
Once the Oversight Committee is established, it can go about compiling a list of all the classified contracts at our University. Written requests should be typed up for the necessary information and given to members of the "managerial group". The "managerial group" will submit the requests to the federal government.
With a university mandate, the Oversight Committee will have more resources with which to write out the requests, and better "reasons" than I did in my attempts to get a list released. If the Federal Government refuses to let our University release unclassified information about itself to a committee that was formed out of concern for the affects of classified research on its campuses, then we seriously need to consider having classified research at UH at all.
If the University still refuses to release a list then I feel it is a definite indicator of something that is being hidden. Be it agendas, motivations, or lawsuits.
The Faculty, the Students, and the Community have a right to know a certain degree of unclassified information about the classified military research that is being conducted at the University of Hawaii.
Maintaining the current degree of ignorance surrounding the subject creates shadows that former high level University employees, and former employees of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH) can move behind while they create private, university affiliated corporations, and facilities like the Hawaii Technology Development Venture (HTDV), the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR), The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), and even RCUH itself.
There was a distinct pattern in the establishment of all these entities. I want to know if this same pattern can be found in the current push for the establishment of a University Affiliated Research Center. If it is, then I seriously worry about the intentions behind increasing the amount of military research at our university, be it unclassified or classified.
There are a number of private corporations, and state entities revolving around the University of Hawaii. Their Boards of Directors are populated with the Former presidents of the University of Hawaii, Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs, and Executive Vice Presidents of RCUH. As Mike Hamnet, the current Executive Vice President said to me, "it's a common career path?Most people who hold my position retire afterwards, and go work for these companies."
These high technology research entities are doing a large amount of military research. HTDV is a project of the Office of Naval Research and PICHTR.
If these high technology firms are full of former UH and RCUH employees, who still have a working network of contacts within the administration, how much influence do they have over UH research? How much influence do they have over administrative appointments and promotions? How much do they steer funding and the focus of the administration away from the Arts and Humanities, and other non-high tech fields? What affiliation do these companies have with classified research at the University of Hawaii?
The real reasons for why there is so much military research at our university, how we got the vague wording on the Board of Regents policy allowing the university to manage facilities where classified contracts are held, how we came to have classified research at the University. These are all questions that the Faculty, the students, and the entire population of Hawaii must know the answers to if we are to make an educated decision, and truly determine, through the force of a majority consensus what we want done at our institutes of higher learning.
No matter what our ideological leanings are on the military, on classified research, or on a UH-UARC. We are all united in the right to have all the reasons, actions, and decisions of our University out on the table so that we can make an educated decision about our future.
As the Faculty Senate, and Student Body we are the legal constituency of the University. Our voice has the power to mold the actions of the University. We need to create a system that protects us, and the community from having this power taken from us.
The first step to accomplishing this is to push for maximum disclosure. An Oversight Committee on Classified Research is the most effective step in this direction that I can think of. If the Faculty Senate raises a unified voice, then we can demand the mandated formation of this committee from the Board of Regents.
An Oversight Committee on Classified Research will be an archive for any person who wants to know general information about what the University is doing for the military. It will be an indicator of just when classified research is starting to affect our university adversely, and it will be our first line of defense against a small group of people gaining the ability to control the direction of UH research, the priorities of our administration, and the opportunities of our own lives. Because in the end, I believe what matters is not which side of the firing lines we chose to stand on. It is that we were given all the relevant information, and we were free to make our own decision.


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Brigham Young University Website
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1997
All prospective and current students in the department of visual arts are directed to this website. It contains over 100 "pages" of current information about our fourteen major/minor programs as well as information about scholarships, gallery and other facilities, study-abroad opportunities, and admissions procedures. The website provides downloadable forms for entering freshmen as well as links to many other university sources. The site will continue to grow, with a virtual gallery, current examples of faculty work, and student portfolios from the department's 800 students.
Collections: Communication Graphics: 19 (1998)
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Experience design
Format: Website
- Design firm
- Brigham Young University
- Art director
- Linda Sullivan
- Graphic designers
- Linda Sullivan, David Groom, David Meredith
- Interface designer
- Ryan Bailey
- Photographers
- Bradley Slade, David Meredith
- Writer
- Joyce Janetski
- Typefaces
- News Gothic, Mrs Eaves
- Client
- Brigham Young University

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Workshops are open to all students, but seating is limited.
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View more details about the spring 2013 Getting Organized workshop.
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The children's theatre company, which operates out of a nondescript industrial building in Melbourne's East St Kilda, will open Scooby-Doo Live! in York, Pennsylvania, on January 19, and then take the show to all points over the next six months, including a 2500-seat venue at Madison Square Garden in New York.
''It's so exciting to be able to take an American product, make it successful here, and then have them ask if we could please bring it back there,'' says its business manager, Troy Sussman.
''We're kind of like a cultural mixed drink,'' says its producer, Anton Berezin. ''There's a little bit of everything and we show it to the Americans and they go, 'I kind of recognise that but it's different'. And that makes it attractive.''
The raw ingredients that Life Like and its sister company The Entertainment Store work with are licensed characters (from the likes of Disney and Nickelodeon), oversize foam heads and colourful costumes, and music - often, but not always, pre-recorded. They mix it up everywhere from council fun fairs and shopping centres to the West End theatre in London where Dora the Explorer enjoyed a three-week run in September.
In luvvy terms, it may not be especially fashionable, but from this recipe partners Sussman, Berezin and creative director Theresa Borg have fashioned a business that turns over about $12 million a year and employs about 20 full-time staff and a lot of young actors. They started with Santa but got a big break when the Wiggles hired them to tour the sub-brand - Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog, Henry the Octopus, et al - in 2000.
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Acquisition and Processing Information: These papers were transferred to the University of Iowa Libraries from the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1989, with ownership transferred by his family in 1994. Processed by Fran Murphy and Earl M. Roger in October 1997. Guide posted to the Internet in 2000; updated January 2008.
Photographs: None
Scope and Contents
The C. C. Wylie Papers consist of two document boxes of astronomical charts (Halley's comet, 1910), correspondence, reports, rock chips (attached to correspondence, December 8, 1953, and March 3, 1954), and travel forms. The papers concern calendar reform, meteor and meteorite sightings, unidentified flying objects, and Lincoln LaPaz. Correspondents include George E. Collins, W. D. Frankforter, Moses Jung (former professor of religion at Iowa), Gerard Kuiper, Peter M. Millman, James R. Naiden, H. H. Nininger, J. Hugh Pruett, Harlow Shapley, and Otto Struve.
Biographical Note
Charles Clayton Wylie was born in Idana, Kansas, June 18, 1886, and died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 5, 1976. His degrees were B.A., Park College, Parkville, Missouri, 1908; M.A., Missouri, 1912; and Ph.D., Illinois, 1922. Wylie was at the U.S. Naval Observatory, 1913 -- 1919, and the University of Illinois, 1922 -- 1925, before teaching astronomy at the University of Iowa from 1925 onward. The astronomy program was then part of the mathematics department. His interest in meteor and meteorite sightings involved extensive public contact. Wylie wrote several books and many articles on astronomy.
Related Materials
Folder, "Wylie, Charles Clayton," in Faculty and Staff Vertical Files Collection (RG 01.15.03)
Box Contents List
Box 1
Calendar reform
1931 -- 1951
January -- July 1952
August -- December 1952
January -- May 1953
June -- September 1953
October -- December 1953
Box 2
Correspondence, 1955 -- 1960 and undated
Halley's comet, May 1910
Logs of meteor trips and request for travel forms, 1951 -- 1954
Notes from the Department of Astronomy, 1953 -- 1954
Office of Ordnance research, 1952 -- 1954
Research on stone-dropping meteors, 1952 -- 1954
Study of stone-dropping meteors and their meteorites, 1951
Texas Observers' Bulletin, no. 25 -- 32, 1933 -- 1934
Descriptive Astronomy , C.C. Wylie (2 copies)


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Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK
- This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page.
- This content is being maintained for historical reference.
This article discusses a new framework that works with the AWS SDK for iOS to allow apps to use Amazon DynamoDB as a persistent back-end for the Apple Core Data Framework. The article assumes familiarity with both technologies. If you haven't done so already, please review the User Preferences sample app to familiarize yourself with using Amazon DynamoDB with the AWS SDK for iOS. You should also review Apples's Core Data Introduction.
The Apple Core Data Framework provides generalized and automated solutions to common tasks associated with object life-cycle and object graph management, including persistence. You can read more about Core Data in the Apple documentation here
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, highly scalable, highly available, cost-effective, non-relational database service. Amazon DynamoDB removes traditional scalability limitations on data storage while maintaining low latency and predictable performance.
This sample app is based on Apple's example iOS Core Data app, Locations. Our version adds another entity to capture checkins at a particular location and adds a relationship between the two entities. Finally, we use the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data to allow our app to save the entities to Amazon DynamoDB.
Entity and Relationship Model
Where the Locations example from Apple has only a single entity, our version expands the model to have two entities, Location and Checkin, with a 1-to-many relationship between them.
Note: The AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data has been tested with 1-to-1 and 1-to-many relationships.
For each object, we defined the property types to correspond to an appropriate Core Data type.
Note: The AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data supports String, Numeric (Integer 16/32/64, Decimal, Double, and Float), Date, and Boolean types. For properties that are hash keys, only String and Numeric types are supported. Primitives are not supported as entity properties.
Configuring the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data
Given this entity and relationship model, you need to configure the app to use the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data.
The AppDelegate also implements the
AWSPersistenceDynamoDBIncrementalStoreDelegate protocol, which requires
you to implement a single selector:
- (AmazonCredentials *)credentials { return [AmazonClientManager credentials]; }
Note: This selector is called every time the framework requires a connection to Amazon DynamoDB; it should return valid credentials. The supplied sample uses TVM to gather these credentials.
The next step is to register that you want to use Amazon DynamoDB as your back-end store.
This happens in your AppDelegate as part of the
[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator registerStoreClass:[AWSPersistenceDynamoDBIncrementalStore class] forStoreType:AWSPersistenceDynamoDBIncrementalStoreType]; persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel:[self managedObjectModel]];
Next, you need to create a number of mappings to allow the framework to understand how to handle your managed objects. These include:
- Hash keys for each table in Amazon DynamoDB that is being
used to represent an entity.
NSDictionary *hashKeys = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"locationId", @"Location", @"checkinId", @"Checkin", nil];
- Attribute to use in each table to represent the
versionof the object being stored.
NSDictionary *versions = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"version", @"Location", @"version", @"Checkin", nil];
- (Optionally) Table name to use for entities. By default, the
entity name is used.
NSDictionary *tableMapper = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"AWS-Locations", @"Location", @"AWS-Checkins", @"Checkin", nil];
With the mappings created, you next create a larger options dictionary and include the delegate for your object manager, which is set to be the AppDelegate itself.
NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: hashKeys, AWSPersistenceDynamoDBHashKey, versions, AWSPersistenceDynamoDBVersionKey, self, AWSPersistenceDynamoDBDelegate, tableMapper, AWSPersistenceDynamoDBTableMapper, nil];
Finally, you pass the options dictionary to the persistence store coordinator and check for errors.
if(![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:AWSPersistenceDynamoDBIncrementalStoreType configuration:nil URL:nil options:options error:&error]) { // Handle the error. NSLog(@"error: %@", error); }
Fetching Managed Objects
When fetching objects in Core Data, you create an instance of the
class and specify the type of entity you are fetching:
NSFetchRequest *request = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init] autorelease]; NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Location" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext]; [request setEntity:entity];
While it is not shown in our sample app, you can also specify an
NSPredicate to
NSFetchRequest to restrict the entities returned. In the initial beta
release of the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data,
NSPredicate is
supported only for hash key properties.
Note: Fetching without a predicate will execute as many scan operations as necessary to load the entire contents of the underlying Amazon DynamoDB table.
Once you've created your fetch request, you ask your managed object context to run it and return the results. You can then work with the returned array as you normally would.
NSArray *fetchedResults = [managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:request error:&error]; NSMutableArray *mutableFetchResults = [fetchedResults mutableCopy];
Creating/Saving/Deleting Managed Objects
When creating new objects in Core Data, you must request they be created from the managed object context. After the object has been created, you can interact with it normally, setting properties on the object.
Checkin *checkin = (Checkin *)[NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Checkin" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext]; checkin.checkinId = [Utilities getUUID]; checkin.checkinTime = [NSDate date]; checkin.comment = @"First Checkin";
Making changes to managed objects does not cause them to be persisted until the application
makes a call to explicitly save the changes.
Note: This saves any and all changes to managed objects created or modified during this session or since the previous save.
NSError *error; if (![managedObjectContext save:&error]) { // Handle the error. NSLog(@"error: %@", error); }
The app can also choose to undo changes.
Note: It is possible to undo persisted changes made during the current session, but you'll need to save the undo.
[[[self managedObjectContext] undoManager] undo];
Deleting objects also requires notifying the managed object context. You cannot remove objects from the back-end store until you've saved the changes.
[managedObjectContext deleteObject:locToDelete];
Conflict Management
When using the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data on multiple threads or devices, you
may encounter a situation where you need to resolve inconsistencies between data on
Amazon DynamoDB tables and your local copy in memory. When the conflicts are detected,
NSManagedObjectContext returns an
NSError object and your
change will not be persisted. You can change this behavior by setting a merge policy
to your
managedObjectContext.mergePolicy = [[[NSMergePolicy alloc] initWithMergeType:NSMergeByPropertyStoreTrumpMergePolicyType] autorelease];
There are five NSMergePolicyTypes available:
NSOverwriteMergePolicyType, and
NSRollbackMergePolicyType. The AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data can
handle all five merge policy types. For more information about
NSMergePolicy, please read NSMergePolicy Class Reference.
NSManagedObject instances returned by Core Data are lazily loaded, it is
possible that when you access an attribute of an object, the actual row in the Amazon
DynamoDB table has been already deleted. In this situation, the AWS Persistence
Framework for Core Data will return an empty
NSManagedObject (the accessor
will return nil) and sends out
AWSPersistenceDynamoDBObjectDeletedNotification. You can register to
AWSPersistenceDynamoDBObjectDeletedNotification by calling the
following method:
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(mergeDeletedObject:) name:AWSPersistenceDynamoDBObjectDeletedNotification object:nil];
When you receive the notification, you should remove any invalid objects from local cache and
refresh the
NSManagedObject instance as necessary. The notification object
has a
userInfo dictionary, which you can use to identify the deleted
object, containing:
- Hash key of the deleted object with
- Entity name of the deleted object with
NSManagedObjectIDof the deleted object with
The following line shows how to refresh an
NSManagedObject. Please note that
refreshing an
NSManagedObject will send a getItem request to the Amazon
[managedObjectContext refreshObject:managedObject mergeChanges:YES];
Under heavily concurrent environments, periodically calling the
method may reduce inconsistent states. Also, calling the
method before saving the change will minimize inconsistent states to be persisted to the
Amazon DynamoDB tables.
Although the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data was developed to meet the widest use case possible, it does have certain limitations.
- iOS versions prior to 5.0 are not supported by the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data.
- You cannot modify the hash key attribute once the object has been
persisted to the Amazon DynamoDB table. Please delete the object and
insert a new object instead of changing the hash key. When hash key
attributes are modified, the save operation will fail and return an
- Primitives are not supported as properties for entities. When
generating your
NSManagedObjectsubclasses, make sure this option is not enabled.
- For properties that are mapped to hash keys for the entities, only string and numeric (Integer 16/32/64, Decimal, Double, and Float) types are supported.
- For all other properties, it is possible to use Date and Boolean types as well as the already mentioned string and numeric types.
- Only 1-to-1 and 1-to-many relationships between entities are supported.
- The framework handles creating, modifying, and deleting rows in the underlying Amazon DynamoDB tables, but it does not manage the tables themselves. You must create tables using primitives provided by the AWS SDK for iOS or via the AWS Management Console.
- When fetching objects without a predicate, the framework will potentially do multiple scan operations against Amazon DynamoDB, which will use large amounts of your provisioned read throughput. Using a predicate when fetching uses a get request against Amazon DynamoDB, which uses only the throughput necessary to load the single object.
- With the current version of the framework,
NSPredicatesare limited to only the properties that are mapped to hash keys.
- Save operations are not guaranteed to be transactional. You should check the errors that Core Data returns and formulate your handling strategies assuming partial data might have been persisted to DynamoDB tables.
- When doing fetches of all objects in a table, the AWS Persistence Framework for Core Data cannot guarantee that recent objects inserts and deletes will be reflected due to inconsistent read status.
- The Persistence Framework does not support sorting because the Amazon DynamoDB scan operation does not sort the result. However, Apple's NSManagementObjectContext Class Reference states that "if you fetch some objects, work with them, and then execute a new fetch that includes a superset of those objects, you do not get new instances or update data for the existing objects-you get the existing objects with their current in-memory state." In this situation, Core Data may sort the in-memory objects based on the sort descriptors provided. However, we don't recommend relying on this behavior; instead, you should sort the results in memory when the objects need to be sorted.
- With the current version of the framework, NSPredicates are limited
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Our course has a big dogleg left. Should I measure the distance of the hole "as the bird fly's" - which is to say, direct and over everything? Or do I measure up to the turn and then down - like an "L" ?
I want to print the scroecards with the right info (helpful) and we will be making tee signs by next summer - so I need the right distance.


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Reddick, Pomeranz make progress on injury fronts
OAKLAND -- A's outfielder Josh Reddick and left-hander Drew Pomeranz both made important strides Monday in their recoveries from injury.
Reddick, who was placed on the disabled list June 29 just five days after being reinstated, participated in his first full day of baseball activities. He took on-field batting practice and shagged fly balls, a positive step in his recovery from a strained right knee.
"It's a good sign, and we'll have a better idea tomorrow once he [goes] through baseball activities," manager Bob Melvin said before Monday's game vs. the Giants.
Pomeranz, meanwhile, was scheduled to test out his right hand catching a baseball Monday for the first time since fracturing it June 16. The lefty has been keeping his arm in shape, recently throwing a 65-pitch simulated game.
"No more wide-receiver stuff where he's the quarterback," Melvin joked, referencing the fact that Pomeranz has had someone else receiving throws for him. "He actually gets to catch the ball, which is a big step for him."
Oakland's third player on the 15-day DL, Kyle Blanks, is also progressing in his rehab for a strained left calf. The first baseman has been taking batting practice in the cage, and he planned to play catch Monday.
Blanks noted that, contrary to recent reports, he has been told the calf is not torn.
"It could have been way worse, but it's something that I'm able to continue to do some baseball stuff while I'm not playing," Blanks said.
He remains unsure of a timetable for his return.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Aaron Leibowitz is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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OSHA To Cell Carriers: Maybe Somebody Could Better Equip And Train Cell Climbers So They Stop Dying?
from the this-shouldn't-be-happening dept
As such, OSHA this week fired off a letter to cell carriers (via PBS), urging them to do a better job in, well, not letting their employees die:
"OSHA has found that a high proportion of these incidents occurred because of a lack of fall protection: either employers are not providing appropriate fall protection to employees, or they are not ensuring that their employees use fall protection properly. As a result, communication tower climbers are falling to their deaths...I am writing to remind you that it is your responsibility to prevent workers from being injured or killed while working on communication towersThat this is something that companies need to be reminded of is fairly sad, especially since they get reminded of it every several years or so. That doesn't seem to be improving training and subcontractor hiring practices all too much, especially at certain companies. A ProPublica and Frontline investigation from 2012 found that between 2003 and 2011, 50 climbers died working on cellular sites, half of the 100 total number of deaths on all communications towers and ten times the average for general construction work. The report noted the deaths were usually because technicians "were shoddily equipped or received little training before being sent up hundreds of feet." Some companies' track records on this front were better than others:
"One carrier, AT&T, had more fatalities on its jobs than its three closest competitors combined, our reporting revealed. Fifteen climbers died on jobs for AT&T since 2003. Over the same period, five climbers died on T-Mobile jobs, two died on Verizon jobs and one died on a job for Sprint.AT&T's biggest spike came as the company rushed to address problems post-2009 about the iPhone's impact on the ill-prepared AT&T network. The OSHA letter doesn't single out companies for the rash of 2013-2014 deaths, though carriers bury themselves in layers upon layers of subcontractors to minimize cost and liability. With the billions being made each quarter by the wireless industry (particularly with the recent migration to pricey, low-cap, shared data plans) the steep human cost of bit transfer is inexcusable.


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I am currently the Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Carl Sandburg College. I received my B.A. (1996), and M.A. (1998) degree from Western Illinois University. From 2001 to 2004 I served as the Director of Educational Programs at Henry Hill Correctional Center, where I managed both vocational and educational programs within the correctional institution. I was a four year veteran of the Illinois Department of Corrections (1998-2001) working as both a correctional officer and tactical response team member. During college I worked in Macomb for the McDonough County Sheriff's Department (1994-1998) as a county correctional officer, court security officer and reserve deputy sheriff. I served proudly (1989-1998) in the United States Army Reserve and Illinois Army National Guard. This opportunity awarded me training and understanding in tactical combat training and counter-narcotics operations.
I have attended over 1800 hours of federal and state law enforcement training. Additionally, I have certifications from both the University of Illinois Police Training Institute as well as the Illinois Department of Corrections Training Academy. I have guest lectured on numerous correctional topics at Monmouth College, Western Illinois University, and here at Carl Sandburg College.
I was raised in Des Moines, Iowa and migrated to Illinois in 1992 to attend Western Illinois University. I am married and the father of five children; where my wife and I focus our social life around their endeavors. I enjoy fishing, sand sculpting, and weight lifting.


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A DUDLEY man told a jury he "lost it" when he battered a good mate to death with a hammer after they had both taken a cocktail of drink and drugs.
William Spence claimed he had been kicked down stairs by Kevin Jones and then punched in the face after they argued because he would not give him the money to buy more crack cocaine.
"I just lost the plot when he attacked me," said Spence who admitted to a jury he had suffered from mental health problems for years and he suffered from schizophrenia.
"Kevin was a good mate - I didn't have other mates as good as him," said Spence. "When we were together we got up to all sorts. Smoking crack cocaine, taking heroin and we also drank strong lagers."
He said the pair argued for about an hour when he refused to hand over the money and it was when he went to leave the house where they both lived in Buxton Road, Woodside that he was attacked.
"He picked up a spike and he went to stab me with it," said Spence. "It was like a knitting needle. His mother then got between us and I went to leave.
"I was going down the stairs when I felt a kick in my back. I turned round and I asked him why he did it. He told me to go. I was trying to go but he was blocking my path."
Spence told Wolverhampton Crown Court that he went to Kevin Jones' bedroom and picked up the hammer because he wanted to "threaten" him with the weapon.
"He was still blocking my path," he went on. "He punched me in the face and I hit him with the hammer around the head. He went straight down."
Spence said he then struck 47-year-old Mr Jones twice in the back with the hammer and again in the head. "His mom came out of the kitchen.
"I was hitting him on the head and she dived on top of him. I didn't do anything to her. I stopped and left. I left the hammer. I don't know why I hit him with it. I just lost it."
The 39-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Spence on Bonfire night last year and he has also pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting his mother Mrs Jean Jones causing her actual bodily harm.
Spence had denied inflicting grievous bodily harm on Mrs Jones but they were directed by Judge John Warner to return a verdict of not guilty on that charge.
The prosecution have alleged Spence brutally murdered his friend and he had refocused his attack on Mr Jones after Mrs Jones had screamed at him to stop hitting her with the hammer when she threw herself on the body of her son.
The trial is continuing and the eight man-four woman are expected to retire next week to consider the evidence.


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Mendocino County has a new county librarian after the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously earlier this month to appoint Mindy Kittay to the post, according to the Mendocino County Executive Office.
Kittay starts Dec. 9, and replaces former county librarian Melanie Lightbody, who recently stepped down from the position.
"The Board of Supervisors is pleased to welcome Mindy Kittay, who rose to the top from a strong field of candidates, as our next county librarian," said board Chairman John McCowen. "Mindy comes from a well-respected and award-winning library district known for its customer service and innovation. We join with the Library Advisory Board, our dedicated staff and our volunteers in welcoming Mindy to our community, and we look forward to improved and innovative library services countywide."
Kittay earned her Master of Library Science from the University of North Texas, and a B.S. in Business Administration from Regis University, according to the Executive Office, and brings to the job "a wealth of experience and creative ideas to serve the diverse needs and interests of our Mendocino County constituents."
Kittay is known for her contribution in transforming a failing library system in Colorado into a library success story that was the focus of featured cover stories in Library Journal and the L.A. Times, according to the Executive Office.
"I am delighted to join the Mendocino County community and am eager to explore the beauty of Mendocino County," Kittay said in a prepared statement. "I look forward to developing community relationships to foster creativity and innovation in serving our patrons and leading our libraries into the twenty-first century."


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NotQuiteSure wrote:Thank you, Ben, for your response.
The choice I'm facing is this: Either pursue my sexual desire or give it up.
As to pursuing it: I know already how much pain it can cause when I fail. I don't know how much temporary joy it can cause when I succeed. So my decision to give it up is based on the assumption that pleasure resulting from sex cannot possibly outgrow the pain. Yet, since I have (virtually) no personal experience, this is only an assumption I'm making based on my imagination and how sex is pictured in the pop culture. I suspect that if I had some experience I would find out I had been overrating it. So the root of the problem seems to be the uncertainty of what I'm missing.
My commitment to celibacy is strong right now. If a sexual desire arises, I will observe it and not act to indulge in it. However, I suspect that over time I will forget about the pain and if I don't eradicate the desire by then, doubts will arise. And then I will not only return to the same position I have been to, I will also feel remorse about 'wasting' the time on celibacy instead of trying to fulfill my desire.
Before that happens, I would like to purify my mind from sexual desire as fully as possible, while I have the 'momentum'.
seeker242 wrote:There is some really good talk on it here. http://www.forestdhamma.org/ebooks/engl ... aphala.pdf
This is an excerpt from page 44. This section starts on page 40. But the whole entire e-book is quite good!
Sexual attraction is rooted in perceptions of the human body.
When the real basis of these perceptions is exposed, it completely
undermines their validity; and the external, as we know it, collapses and our attachment to it ceases of its own accord. The
defiling influence of sexual attraction—which has ridden rough shod over the mind since time immemorial, luring the mind to
grasp at birth and so experience death continuously for eons—
this insidious craving is now powerless. The mind has now passed
beyond its influence: It is now free.
Ben wrote:Developing an aversion to sexual desire is a recipe for the multiplication of suffering.
Just observe.
On another note, you might consider that, sex in the context of a committed, respectful and loving relationship, might be another way to 'deal' with it. I have only little experience with this, but I can tell you, it's completely different to sex just for the sake of physical pleasure alone. It's not nearly as unwholesome. If engaged in with loving-kindness, it can actually be a beautiful thing...and the feelings of warmth and love can actually become 'the main thing', they actually 'calm down' the more fiery, impulsive aspect of desire. In my limited experience, anyway.
kind regards
BubbaBuddhist wrote:sometimes people can enjoy the sexual act, within a committed relationship with a loving partner, without it destroying them or becoming the foundation of neurosis.
AN 9.41 wrote:Then Tapussa the householder went to Ven. Ananda and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to Ven. Ananda: "Venerable Ananda, sir, we are householders who indulge in sensuality, delight in sensuality, enjoy sensuality, rejoice in sensuality. For us — indulging in sensuality, delighting in sensuality, enjoying sensuality, rejoicing in sensuality — renunciation seems like a sheer drop-off. Yet I've heard that in this doctrine & discipline the hearts of the very young monks leap up at renunciation, grow confident, steadfast, & firm, seeing it as peace. So right here is where this doctrine & discipline is contrary to the great mass of people: i.e., [this issue of] renunciation."
"This calls for a talk, householder. Let's go see the Blessed One. Let's approach him and, on arrival, tell him this matter. However he explains it to us, we will bear it in mind."
BubbaBuddhist wrote:I must be doing it wrong.
BubbaBuddhist wrote:I wonder what ever became of Tapussa? the Buddha described how his contemplations on the pitfalls of sensuality led to his rise to Buddhahood. Of Tapussa's reaction to the Buddha's discourse we apparently have no record. Did he ordain? Did he give the Enlightenment speech ("Excellent dear sir, Excellent! As, one might set upright what had been upset, or disclose what had been covered...etc). Did he decide renunciation was too hard, go home and continue the sensual life of a layman, eat Cheetos, drink wine, love up his wife, go to shadow-shows?
I wish I knew.
Sometimes I think I'm a terrible Buddhist because I know the world is a crappy place, that everything is subject to decay, impermanent, dukkha. Yet in spite of this I enjoy myself and experience inner content. I must be doing it wrong.
BubbaBuddhist wrote:I may be too old a dog to change. I'm 55 years old, have been practicing Buddhism for 30+ years. Kinda set in my ways. I was going to take the robe 15 years ago or so and studied toward that end, even to the point of learning a whole lot of Pali, but realized it wasn't for me. I'm content where I am, a lusty layman. I salute you guys who sound to me to be anagamis, but I love my life with my operas and my sweet woman, and my Oreos and my morning coffee (not necessarily in that order). Funny how people try to convince me that I'm not really happy,I'm just deluded into thinking I'm happy.
BubbaBuddhist wrote:I may be too old a dog to change. I'm 55 years old, have been practicing Buddhism for 30+ years. Kinda set in my ways. I was going to take the robe 15 years ago or so and studied toward that end, even to the point of learning a whole lot of Pali, but realized it wasn't for me. I'm content where I am, a lusty layman. I salute you guys who sound to me to be anagamis, but I love my life with my operas and my sweet woman, and my Oreos and my morning coffee (not necessarily in that order). Funny how people try to convince me that I'm not really happy,I'm just deluded into thinking I'm happy.
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It may be true that, in fact, Adam Lanza would not have had that particular gun to use in his killing spree. But I wonder if it would have stopped him from totally going on his rampage, which included murdering his mother while she slept.
On the other hand, perhaps he would have used a weapon of another sort. Say for example the type used by 14 year-old Michael Carneal. On Dec. 1, 1997, Carneal walked into Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky. Then, pulling out a .22-caliber pistol, he proceeded to fire all eight shots the gun held into a group of students who had gathered for prayer in school. In all, three students died and five more were wounded. Keep in mind that a .22 pistol is not on anybody's list to have banned, at least not yet.
Growing up in the '60s and on an Indiana farm I certainly had guns available to me. They were kept in order to stave off varmints or stray dogs that were apt to kill off livestock. No, I did not have an AR-15 at my disposal, but we did have high-caliber hunting rifles and .22-caliber semi-automatics, which had a capacity of 19 rounds and could fire a round just as fast as you could pull the trigger. This was true as well for almost all those kids I grew up with.
I'm sure some of you are thinking, "But Bob, President Obama and his fellow gun-control advocates aren't suggesting we take away those types of guns used for hunting."
But that's not my point. No matter how angry at my parents, or my teachers I got (and I got mad on plenty of occasions), it never ever entered my mind to get back at my perceived antagonists by taking one of the available firearms and delivering a message to the world by gunning them down. Maybe those repeated "Golden Rule" sermons I heard over and over again in church and back in those days, even in school, left an impact.
Not so long ago I was made aware of a group of middle school girls who had taunted another girl whom they did not know who had been walking by a school minding her own business. When the girl responded to the group saying only, "Leave me alone," the group of girls surrounded her, pulled her down to the ground by her hair and then savagely beat her. The girl who was beaten posed no threat to the group. Later on, when being interviewed, the attackers admitted that they had never laid eyes on their victim prior to the confrontation.
Then there is the local student who not so long ago approached another student in the school cafeteria and shoved a knife into his neck. Why such violent attitudes? Why did the attackers derive such enjoyment/satisfaction in seeing a helpless victim suffer so?
Interestingly, following the killings at West Puducah, one of the parents of a murdered student filed a lawsuit against several media outlets for what was claimed to have inspired Michael Carneal. Among the defendants were the producers of popular teenage killer movies "Natural Born Killers" and "The Basketball Diaries." Eventually, the case was dismissed by the arrogance of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The justices would simply say it was "too far a leap from shooting characters on a video screen to shooting people in a classroom."
Keep in mind this statement when considering that before Carneal shot eight students with eight shots, a feat that even amazed professional marksmen, he had never shot a real gun prior to his pulling the trigger of that .22 pistol that morning. But he did develop his skills and his attitude toward life by practicing hours on end by playing gun simulation video games. You know, the kind that is popular with today's youth culture by showing massive blood spills and brains being blown all over.
We feed our children graphic violence daily. We have irreverently destroyed our traditions and culture, which, in turn, leads our children on paths of uncertian character development. Guns and weapons of all sorts have been with us forever; this New Age way of thinking promoted by a liberally biased media just a little over 40 years.
If we ban guns, even if we ban all guns irrespective to the vast majority of gun owners whose weapons will never be used in any kind of heinous act, do we really believe that in today's world, this unimaginable violence will end. The gun is nothing more than a tool. Take away a man's shovel, and if a ditch needs to be dug, I gurantee you he will find another way. Will we stop being concerned when those such as Dylan Kleibold and Eric Harris of Columbine fame continue to kill with homemade bombs instead of MAC 10s?
Life doesn't mean much anymore, marriage has more to do with sex than the raising of a family, criminals are to be understood instead of receiving punishment equal to the crime they committed and legalization of drugs and their impact on the young means little as long as daddy can get high without feeling any guilt.
What do you expect in a society where the likes of Lindsay Lohan gets more media attention than Jesus Christ? It's the culture, stupid!
I've said it before, the gun doesn't bother me. It's whose finger is on the trigger.


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A LORRY fire has caused delays of up to two hours on the southbound carriageway of the M61.
The blaze, which happened at about 8am, initially led to the carriageway being completely closed, with two lanes travelling northbound also shut.
Fire crews from Greater Manchester and Lancashire tackled the blaze, which started near Rivington services between junctions 8 and 6 on the M61.
A fire service spokesman said the blaze started when the driver of the lorry, which was pulling a trailer containing 20 tonnes of pet food, heard a bang come from the engine compartment.
He pulled over and saw smoke.
Fire crews have extinguished the blaze and are currently in the process of emptying the lorry's cargo so they can make sure there are no heat sources underneath.
A fire service spokesman said: "When we arrived the fire was well alight.
"We used three appliances to put the fire out
"The fire started in the engine, which we believe had overheated."
The northbound lanes and one soutbound lane were reopened, at about 8.45am.
But the incident has created delays of up to two hours southbound, with the Highways Agency not expecting normal driving conditions to be in place until 4pm.
A clean-up operation on the carriageway has now begun.
The driver escaped the vehicle unhurt, according to a fire service spokesman.
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William Hale Crocker, who fired the .45-caliber bullets that killed Joseph Litteral, 40, and severely wounded Brandon Haggett, 20, both of Willits, in the crowded Bushay Campground on Lake Mendocino in August 2011 was sentenced Friday to spend 25 years-to-life in prison.
Crocker, 31, of Willits, pleaded guilty in January to the shootings. He was the last of the four men to be sentenced who armed themselves and went to the campground to kidnap a woman and rob the others of money and marijuana. While Crocker was not the only assailant armed, he was the only one who actually fired a firearm.
Two of Crocker's accomplices, ringleader Marvin Douglas Johnson, Jr. and Simon Thornton, decided to take their chances with a jury trial. Johnson had turned down a plea deal and seemed surprised when the jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for his participation in the crime. He is now serving 300 months-to-life in prison.
Thornton turned down an early plea deal for voluntary manslaughter and attempted murder involving a 180-month sentence. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and he is now serving a 408-month-to-life sentence.
Crocker and his last accomplice, Arone Joseph Schnebly, were caught after Johnson and Thornton and had later scheduled trial dates. Once Johnson and Thornton were found guilty and received lengthier sentences than had been offered by the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office, Crocker and Schnebly changed their pleas to guilty. Schnebly was allowed to plea to voluntary manslaughter and attempted murder and received a 180-month sentence.
Since Crocker was the actual trigger man, the District Attorney's Office would not agree to anything less than murder conviction.
The tragedy began with ringleader Johnson, driving three of his buddies?Crocker, Thornton and Schnebly?to Bushay Campground to kidnap his estranged wife, Deborah Cano-Johnson and rob the group she was with. Johnson exaggerated the amount of marijuana and money at the campground to his cohorts.
Johnson knew his wife was at the campground surrounded by children and families.
Johnson and his three accomplices were members of Willits' transient society, panhandling around town to get money for alcohol, partying in the creeks during the summer with the area's resident homeless. All were well known to Willits police.
Litteral and Haggett also were members of a transient-lifestylye group, staying with a group of about 10, including Cano-Johnson, in a single Willits motel room. Johnson's constant harassing phone calls caused them to relocate to the campground. There the group swelled to about 15 men, women and children. The adults drank beer and smoked pot, partying late into the night.
Johnson and his cohorts borrowed a car from Schnebly's nephew the night of the murder. They stopped by Crocker's trailer to pick up the .45-caliber pistol and 12-gauge shotgun before driving to the campground. Thornton brought his personal weapon of choice to the melee, an aluminum baseball bat.
The assault at the campground began with guns being waved around and the residents being urged to hand over the woman and the money. Some of the campers tried to move the children to safety, while Haggett and Litteral moved to intercept the assailants.
Thornton bashed both Haggett and Litteral with his bat, breaking Litteral's arm and dazing Haggett so he was unable to wrestle the pistol away from Crocker. Crocker then shot Haggett point-blank in the chest with his pistol. Schnebley was waving his shotgun around and shouting, but never fired it.
When Litteral attempted to prevent Crocker from shooting Haggett again, Crocker shot Litteral point-blank in the chest. Litteral died at Ukiah Valley Medical Center.
Once the shots were fired, the four invaders abandoned all thoughts of robbery and kidnapping, piling back into the borrowed car and driving away at high speed. They dumped the weapons in a blackberry bramble in Potter Valley, split up and returned to their transient lifestyles.


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Creamy Carrot Parsnip Soup Recipe
Our farm family would eat soup every day as long as it didn't come from a can! This smooth creamy concoction tastes like it's fresh from the garden. A subtle hint of horseradish and ginger sparks every steaming spoonful.
- 8 cups chopped carrots
- 6 cups chopped peeled parsnips
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 3 cups water
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon peeled grated horseradish
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh gingerroot
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- Fresh dill sprigs, optional
- 1. In a Dutch oven, combine the carrots, parsnips, broth, water, sugar and salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 25-30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- 2. In a small skillet, saute onion, garlic, horseradish and ginger in butter until tender. Add to the carrot mixture.
- 3. Transfer soup to a blender in batches; cover and process until smooth. Return to the pan. Stir in buttermilk; heat through (do not boil).
- 4. Garnish servings with sour cream and dill if desired. Yield: 12 servings (3 quarts).
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 148 calories, 4g fat (2g saturated fat), 11mg cholesterol, 617mg sodium, 25g carbohydrate (13g sugars, 6g fiber), 4g protein.
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My brother was diagnosed 2 weeks ago. He is having testing today to see if he can withstand surgery, which they have tentativly set for July 1.
He is no appetite and living on liquids. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what types of nutrional drinks that would be the best for him to increase his strength and immune system?
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President Starr talks religious freedom with noted author Os Guinness
Baptists have long emphasized the importance of religious freedom, so it makes sense that Baylor President Ken Starr would use his "On Topic" series to host a conversation on the topic with noted First Amendment enthusiast and author Os Guinness.
Guinness has written or edited more than 25 books. His latest, The Global Public Square, presents the case for a necessary freedom of religion for all people that would help individuals, people groups and nations worldwide live in harmony instead of amidst the sectarian violence found in so many pockets of the world today. In last night's conversation with Judge Starr, Guinness explained to the Waco Hall audience that our nation's founding values have allowed the United States to be a leader in allowing religious conversation of all sorts in public forums, but that the growing emphasis on a strict separation of church and state is weakening that leadership role.
[Watch the entire "On Topic" conversation with Os Guinness]
Guinness is the latest in a series of top scholars brought to Waco each semester for free public conversations. Judge Starr's "On Topic" series has previously featured such guests as billionaire alternative energy proponent T. Boone Pickens, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.
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[Also worth noting: On Aug. 27, President Starr delivered the opening sermon at Truett Seminary's annual convocation, speaking on freedom and lessons from the past. Click here to read his message.]


text: Into the Garden: Mulch protects tree roots over winter By Sara Busse November 17, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The late-October snowfall caught a lot of us by surprise. I had planned to rake and blow leaves, mulch the beds, etc., but now I'm playing catch-up. The Morton Arboretum recommends mulching around trees to protect against damage from the cold. Since we've lost so many trees to the storms of 2012, I'm doing my best to keep the ones that are left.When used properly, mulch stabilizes soil temperatures, helping to prevent root injury and stress that can occur during freeze-thaw cycles.If you didn't mulch your trees this summer, there's still time to apply it.Mulching plants is functional and decorative. Mulch typically is an organic material spread on the soil surface to protect roots from heat, cold and drought, and to provide nutrients to plants as it decomposes. Once you have chosen the right plant for a given site, and followed the proper planting procedures, you should mulch the plant and create a stable environment for root growth.Several factors should be considered when choosing mulch. Medium-textured mulch is best. Fine particles tend to pack down and retain moisture, which then evaporates before reaching plant roots. Coarse-textured materials may be too porous to hold adequate amounts of water.Organic mulch provides nutrient-rich humus as it decomposes. This also improves soil structure.Types of organic mulchGrass clippings. Dry or compost before using. Mix with other materials to increase porosity and reduce matting. A source for some nitrogen but also higher alkalinity, which may compromise nutrition. Hardwood bark. Pine bark or shredded bark can be purchased as bags of small or large chips. Long-lasting.Hardwood chips. Readily available and often free from municipal sources. If chips are not composted, apply a nitrogen fertilizer at a rate of 1/2 pound per 100 square feet of chips.Composted leaf litter (leaf mold). A good source of nutrients, but may increase weeds if not thoroughly composted.Animal manure. A good source of nutrients. Compost before applying or plant damage (burn) may result because of high salt content. Ideally, should be mixed with a coarse-textured material. Mushroom compost. A good source of nutrients when mixed with other materials. Source of large amounts of alkalinity and sometimes salts.Peat moss. Compacts easily due to fine texture and dries out quickly. Not recommended as a top dressing because water will not penetrate when dry.Pine boughs. This is a good covering for perennials in the winter. Pine needles. Not widely available and should be mixed with other materials unless soil acidity is desired.Shredded leaves. Leaves are variable in texture and can be collected and shredded at home. Mix into the soil in the fall and allow to break down naturally during the winter for improved soil quality.Straw. Coarse-textured so it persists a long time, but can blow away easily unless mixed with other materials. Generally not suitable as a landscape mulch, but provides winter protection and cover for grass seed.Applying mulchSpread mulch under trees, shrubs and throughout planting beds to a recommended depth of 3 to 4 inches for medium- to coarse-textured materials.Pull mulch away from the bases of tree and shrub trunks creating a doughnut hole. Do not pile it up against the trunk ("volcano mulching"). Excessive mulch on the trunk causes moisture to build up, creating ideal conditions for insect pests, diseases and decay. Ideally, the mulched area around a tree should extend to the drip line of the branches, or at least cover a 4- to 5-foot diameter area around the trunk. The larger the mulched area, the more beneficial.Check mulch depth annually and replenish as necessary.Mulch provides an insulation layer. Mulched soils are warmer in winter and cooler in summer than bare soils. Roots are protected from temperature extremes, creating less freezing and thawing of the soil in winter, which can heave and injure plants.Reach Sara Busse at email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 4 Former State Police captain now chief in Winfield 5 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 Tweaks abundant for traditional cornucopia Previous Story Culinary SOS: Cake hits the spot with ripe pears Next Story


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Below is the first official clip released from Batman: Under the Red Hood. The eighth entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies will be distributed on July 27, 2010 by Warner Home Video.
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The 54-second clip features an encounter between Batman and Red Hood. In the film, Batman faces his ultimate challenge as the mysterious Red Hood takes Gotham City by firestorm. One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code. And when The Joker falls in the balance between the two forces of justice, hard truths are revealed and old wounds are reopened.
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Washington has beautiful buildings, charming residential districts, a large number of free museums, culture, entertainment and, of course, political power.
Washington's "Mall", a 2-mile car-free zone in the shape of a cross, is certainly worth a visit, because of its sights. At one end of the Mall, there is the Capitol, where the US Congress meets, and at the other end, there is the Jefferson Memorial. The White House, which is the home of the president and his family, is also nearby and should not be missed.
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The INTERNATIONAL WORLD PARACHUTING RANKING LIST for Freefall Style and Accuracy Landings are updated. The high level of participation in Dubai increased the number of NACs placed in the ranking lists, which is positive.
In the Individual Overall Male event France moved from their 3rd position to 1st pushing down the Czech Republic and Russia a place each. Russia maintained their dominance of the Individual Overall Female event with Slovenia slipping down the rankings allowing Belarus and France to move up one place each.
For Male Individual Accuracy Landings:
The top five NACs changing places with Slovenia now placed 1st (2nd previously) and Czech Republic 2nd (1st before) with Italy improving from fifth to third and Russia and France each slipping one place to 4th and 5th respectively.
For Female Individual Accuracy Landings:
Again the top five NACs changed places with Slovenia again moving from 2nd to 1st place and Belarus moving from 3rd to 2nd ; Russia slipped from their former 1st place to 3rd with France and Croatia maintaining their 4th and 5th positions.
For Male Freefall Style:
The top 7 NACs maintained their placing over both sets of rankings, which probably says a lot about the difficulty of this discipline and the loyalty of both competitors and NACs to it. France held their 1st position. Kazakhstan being ranked for the first time.
For Female Freefall Style:
Belarus retained their 1st position. Kazakhstan and Bulgaria were ranked for the first time.
About the IPC World Ranking Lists
The full Ranking Lists can be found there: LINK
Explanation on how the Rankings are calculated can be found here: LINK
Following the Dubai Mondial 2012 the latest ranking lists have been created using a base figure of 250 as opposed to the 100 used previously. This is due to the high number of participants, particularly in the Accuracy Landings event.
In the individual events, the top placed competitor for each NAC is allocated points based on their overall position: i.e. 1st place = 250 points, 10th place = 241, 20th = 231 on a reducing sliding scale.
These points are then multiplied by the seniority of the event: World Parachuting Championships x 3; Continental Championships x 2; World Cup x 2
The ranking lists are calculated over a 4 year period, with the points for the year of the last competition counted at 100%; the previous year 75%; year 3, 50% and the 4th year 25%
The high level of participation in Dubai increased the number of NACs placed in the ranking lists.


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Anderson chased in third as D-backs can't stop Nats
Righty charged with six runs allowed over two-plus innings in defeat
WASHINGTON -- Despite losing five of the first seven games on their current road trip, the D-backs could take some consolation in the fact that they were close games, with all but one decided by a single run.
Tuesday night's game, not so much.
The Nationals scored six runs in the third inning en route to an 8-1 win over the D-backs at Nationals Park.
The loss was the fourth straight for the D-backs, while the surging Nats, who own the best record in the National League, ran their winning streak to eight.
Chase Anderson has been the D-backs' best starter over the past month, but it was clear from the get-go that the rookie did not have his best command on Tuesday. And as a pitcher who lacks overpowering stuff, Anderson needs that command to be successful.
"I wouldn't say he's the kind of pitcher that has had great command so far this year, but he's always been able to make the pitch to get out of it," said D-backs manager Kirk Gibson. "These guys had a good approach against us, when he tried to make an out pitch, they were on it. He's pitched good, to be fair, for us, but tonight was just not his night."
Anderson (7-5) managed to escape the first two frames unscathed, but like dark skies in the distance, there were warning signs in how hard the Nats had hit the ball.
In the third, the skies opened up and the downpour of hits began.
The first six Washington hitters reached base against Anderson, and he was removed with three runs in and the bases loaded.
"I felt real good physically, I was just fighting myself not to rush to the plate and keep my front side closed," Anderson said. "That's kind of been the thing I've worked on all year, just tried to stay consistent with that command, but it's been kind of hit or miss. I felt fine, I just didn't execute."
Following Anderson's exit, Asdrubal Cabrera promptly unloaded the bases as he greeted reliever Eury De La Rosa with a double to right-center that gave the Nationals a 6-1 lead.
While Anderson made a quick exit, Nats starter Stephen Strasburg was in this one for the long haul.
"He had his fastball working, he was locating," D-backs second baseman Aaron Hill said. "He's one of the better fastball pitchers in the game, and we were hoping to maybe get his pitch count up a little bit and get into the bullpen, and it just didn't happen. He was pumping the strikes and did what he's capable of doing. He did a great job."
Strasburg allowed a two-out home run David Peralta in the first inning and then gave up just two hits the rest of the way as he went eight innings to improve to 10-10.
"I just wanted to go out there build off the last start and keep doing the things that I've been trying to work on," said Strasburg. "[Catcher Jose Lobaton] called a great game, we played great defense."
"He threw the ball good, obviously," Gibson said. "We got the run in the first inning and he settled right down. We had minimal opportunities off him. He started with his fastball early, his change was good tonight, he's got a good breaking ball and he's much more polished than he used to be. He used to be more of a thrower, now he's got great stuff, electric, and he's certainly grown up to become a good pitcher, as well."
The D-backs are hoping that Anderson grows into the kind of pitcher who can occupy a spot in the rotation in the future. With that in the mind, the team is keeping a close eye on his innings total.
Last year, due to some injury issues, Anderson threw just 88 innings for Triple-A Reno. This year, between his early-season stint with Double-A Mobile and his 16 big league starts, he is already at 126 1/3 innings.
"Where his innings are is OK," Gibson said. "I told you we'd keep an eye on it, and he'll make his next start, for sure."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Senators continued debate Wednesday on a bill to expand Medicaid eligibility to some low-income adults under a provision of the federal Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacar.
An estimated 54,000 more Nebraskans would become for Medicaid.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government would pay the full cost of the expansion for three years, until 2016. After that time, the federal share of the cost would gradually decrease to 90 percent by 2020, where it would remain.
Lawmakers passed an amendment to the bill Tuesday (AM1 028) that would allow the Legislature to affirm, amend or repeal the Medicaid expansion should the federal assistance ever drop below 90 percent of the programs cost.
Wednesday debate
Sen. Galen Hadley of Kearney introduced an amendment Wednesday that would see the Medicaid expansion expire after three years, at which time the Legislature would have to vote to renew the law.
Hadley chose three years because it is the same time period when the federal government will pay the full cost of the expansion.
He said it would provide the state a window of opportunity to see if the expansion is effective before committing state funds to finance it.
It gives us the chance to study what we should do with this problem, he said.
Several senators expressed support for Hadleys amendment, calling it a legislative compromise.
But Sen. Tom Carlson of Holdrege said potentially taking away Medicaid for thousands of Nebraskans after three years was something none of the senators would be able to do.
After covering 54,000 to 94,000 people for three years who arent covered now, you will not make the decision to take that coverage away. It will not happen, Carlson said.
Sen. Bill Avery of Lincoln said he is now convinced that Nebraska cannot afford not to do this.
Avery cited a number of taxes and fees under the Affordable Care Act -- including a tax on drug importers and high-end insurance plans -- that will take effect in 2014 regardless of whether the state expands Medicaid.
Avery said those taxes would result in a revenue loss for Nebraska residents of about $253 million over 10 years. Meanwhile, he added, federal funds from the expanded Medicaid program would return $2.3 billion to Nebraskas economy over that same 10-year period.
With Wednesdays discussion heavily focused on numbers, Campbell urged senators to also focus on the human element of Medicaid expansion.
We have to remember that behind all those numbers are people, Campbell said.
She said that during the Keystone XL Pipeline special legislative session in 2011, her husband had health problems that resulted in a $100,000 medical bill because of problems that escalated after a simple fall, she said.
We had insurance, we had a higher deductible, so we were able to deal with that, she said. But if you are zero to 138 percent of poverty, could you have paid a $100,000 bill?
Some senators continued to oppose the bill despite the proposed three-year expiration date.
Consider the people that would enter the program and then be dropped from the program, said Sen. Lydia Brasch of Bancroft.
Brasch also questioned whether states have the ability to leave the program once theyve opted into it.
Brasch said that the expiration date, also called a sunset date, meant that lawmakers were expecting trouble.
When thats the case, we should avoid trouble, she said.
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Katie Douglas is coming home.
The Indiana Fever today will announce that Douglas, an All-Star guard and Indianapolis native, has been acquired from the Connecticut Sun in exchange for forward Tamika Whitmore and the Fever's first-round draft pick.
The trade was reported Monday night on TheDay.com, a Web site in Connecticut, citing WNBA sources. The report was confirmed by a source in the Fever organization.
The transaction is one of the most consequential in Fever history, perhaps exceeded only by the selection of Tamika Catchings in the 2002 WNBA draft.
Douglas, 28, averaged 17.0 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.7 assists last season and was a second-team All-WNBA guard. She was a first-team pick in 2006.
Douglas, a graduate of Purdue and Perry Meridian High School, had sought a trade to Indiana so she could be closer to family.
Whitmore, 30, a nine-year veteran, averaged 10.9 points for the Fever last season.


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I find it intriguing, but I have to say that somehow the aesthetics of it don't look quite right. From some angles the superstructure on top of the hulls looks a little too much like a hotel that's been dropped onto the yacht. It must have a huge amount of interior space.
I'm thinking with the proper designer that you could style a yacht that was more visually pleasing yet still retain some neat features related to that design. I imagine you could use a crane between the hulls to drop a tender and then winch it right back up.
Even given the two hulls, is the overall beam on the Asean Lady still less than that on Octopus?