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ROCHESTER — Josh Perry's overtime goal lifted DeNiro Development past Towle Pallet on Monday, 5-4, to claim a 2-0 sweep for the Rochester Men's Hockey league title Monday.
Jordan Blair and Tom Breslin assisted onthe game-winner for DeNiro (12-5-5), which won the first game of the best-of-three series on March 13, 4-2.
Breslin, Blair, Hans Carbonneau and Matt Genest (assist) also scored for DeNiro, which led 4-2 after two periods. Towle (9-12-2) scored twice in the third period to tie the score at 4-all and force OT. Kyle Dunbar scored from Jeff Nolin ands Casey Goodell added his second goal from Scott Brown (2 assists).
Matt McGilvray added a goal and an assist for Towle.
Derek Colwell had 43 saves for DeNiro, while Eric Shields stopped 33 shots for Towle.
In the first game, Carbonneau, Blair, Dan Houston (assist) and John Gillum scored for DeNiro, while Colwell stopped 34 shots.
Matt McGilvray and Sean Conroy (assist) scored for Towle. Shields made 22 saves.
Roger Allen Baseball sign-ups
ROCHESTER — Roger N. Allen Baseball (Rochester Youth Cal Ripken Baseball) will hold sign-ups at the Rochester Community Center on Thursdays, March 21 and 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays, March 23 and 30 from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration is open to children ages 4-12 and the cut-off for one's birthday is May 1. A birth certificate is required for all new league players. No more sign-ups after Saturday, March 30.
Buddy Ball Division (ages 5 to 20) may also sign up. Registration fee due at sign-ups. For information call 332-5469, 396-1582 or 581-9496.
Rochester Baseball Golf Tourney
ROCHESTER — Spaulding High School baseball, Rochester Babe Ruth Baseball, and Roger Allen Baseball are teaming up to put on the first Roy Allain Rochester Baseball Golf Tourney on Saturday, May 11. This fundraiser will directly help all Rochester baseball player's from ages 4 through 18. The cost to play in this tourney is $100 per player or $375 per team (if paid in advance). This fee includes golf cart, raffles, prizes, and lunch or dinner. On site late registration at Rochester Country Club is $115.
The committee is also in need of business sponsors, hole sponsors, donations for gift baskets and raffle prizes. No gift is too small and anything you can do is greatly appreciated. For a reg.form, questions or comments please contact John Creteau at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nippo Lake junior membership essay contest
BARRINGTON — Nippo Lake Golf Club in Barrington will be awarding a single junior membership for the 2013 golf season to a student entering grades 6-12 in the fall of 2013. All applications must be postmarked no later than April 15, 2013. Each applicant is asked to write a 200-word essay in response to the following statement:
"Beyond the pure pleasure of the game of golf, it also serves to build character traits. Some of these traits include integrity, honor, respect, courtesy, sportsmanship, confidence, honesty, perseverance and self-esteem. Select TWO of these traits and tell us how these character traits would be enhanced in you, through your experience at Nippo Lake Golf Club."
The recipient of the award will be notified by Monday April 29, and the scholarship will be formally awarded on Sunday, June 2, during the NLGC Annual Take a Child to the Course Afternoon. Applications are available on the Nippo Lake Golf Club website, www.nippolake.com. All questions regarding the Golf Scholarship should be directed to Chris Mowers, PGA at 603-664-7616.
Seacoast Titans youth football and cheer sign-ups
DOVER — Sign ups for Seacoast Titans football and cheer will be held on March 27, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Rochester Community Center.
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Rare blue lobster introduced to public at National Aquarium in Washington, DC
Just in time for Independence Day, Toby, the rare blue lobster found off the coast of Maryland last month, will go on exhibit at National Aquarium, Washington, DC today. Toby's particular blue hue is said to be a 1-in-2-million exception to the reddish-brown shade of most lobsters. This unique color is a genetic variation that is caused by the lobster producing an excessive amount of a particular protein.
John Gourley and his team aboard the fishing boat, the Pot Luck, caught Toby off the coast of Maryland near Ocean City in June. The lobster had been staying in Martin's Fish Co.'s lobster tank prior to being donated to the National Aquarium on June 19. Toby was not immediately placed on exhibit due to standard precautionary measures regarding the safety of a new species.
Today, Toby will be placed in the recently renovated Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuaries exhibit, which currently houses three black sea bass and one tautog.
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Pork Tetrazzini
"My mom always made this with leftover turkey or ham. You can also use chicken or tuna instead of pork," says Doreen Kelly of Roslyn, Pennsylvania.
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min.
Makes4 servings
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 celery rib, diced
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 cup 2% milk
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon onion salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 cups cooked spaghetti
- 2 cups diced cooked pork
- 2 tablespoons seasoned bread crumbs
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a small saucepan, saute onion and celery in butter until tender. Combine flour and broth until smooth; stir into the pan. Add milk, bay leaf, onion salt and pepper. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat. Discard bay leaf. Whisk in sour cream, parsley and lemon juice.
- Place the spaghetti in a greased 11x7-in. baking dish; top with pork and white sauce. Sprinkle with bread crumbs. Bake, uncovered, 30-35 minutes or until bubbly. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.


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Five months after his arrest on drug and gun charges, Beanie Sigel has waived his hearing during an appearance this week in Folcroft District Court.
According to The Reporter, the former Roc-A-Fella Record signee showed up "shackled and wearing prison blues," looking "portly but seemingly slimmed down." The rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, appeared before Magisterial District Judge Edward Christie and waived his preliminary hearing on all charges. Though he said little during the proceedings, he smiled when the judge wished him good luck.
Sigel was initially arrested on August 29th following a traffic stop. After discovering marijuana and prescription pill bottles on the driver, police found a bottle of codeine syrup and $4,500 in cash in his pants. He also allegedly had pills in a cigarette carton in his pocket and was placed under arrest. A gun was also found in the center dashboard of the vehicle.
He last appeared in court in September to face gun and drug charges. Prosecutors requested a continuance in the proceedings against him so that lab results on the alleged drugs found on his person would be ready. This allowed for Sigel to be transferred from Delaware County prison to begin his two-year sentence for tax evasion.
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Why can't Google and Apple get along?
Google has enabled push email with the iPhone after a long wait. When Apple first launched the iPhone, it rolled out push email with Yahoo, not Google's geek-beloved Gmail. Ever since we've started using the iPhone, we wished for this, and in the meantime used GPush, which was off to a rocky start but now works perfectly.
Anyway, now there's no third-party app necessary to get your Gmail on the go, because Google worked around Apple and modified Google Sync, working through the Microsoft Exchange account on the iPhone to bring your email messages instantly.
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Now, those emails are updated in the same way you could previously sync your calendar and contacts. No more waiting around for those messages to be pulled at preselected intervals, or manually checking your e-mail — hooray! There's one catch: You can only use one Exchange client at a time, so if you use Microsoft Exchange at work, you can't use Exchange for push Gmail.
Oh, and there's this problem: Business Insider reports that Google's new push email isn't working because of a crush of new users. That could be due to AT&T's already overtaxed network, though.
Nice, Google. Now if you can just figure out how to work around Apple's mulish refusal to approve a Google Voice dialer for the iPhone, and AT&T's sluggish data network, justice will be done. I'm hearing a few people say GPush is faster than push Gmail over the Microsoft Exchange client, so I'm thinking I'll stick with GPush for now. Let us know about your experiences and comparisons in the comments.
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Defectors take the car, cooperators go by bus
National economies are driven by the automobile, even during an economic downturn. Every day, hundreds of millions of people take their cars to visit remote places, to commute, and to reach the supermarket.
The total outlay for building roads amounts to trillions of dollars and millions of worker-hours. Miklos Szilagyi of the University of Arizona, Tucson suggests this is an apparent waste of resources, a serious producer of pollution, congestion, delays, and the fundamental reason for US dependence on foreign oil, but is mass transportation in large cities the best alternative. Should commuters take the bus rather than driving to work?
Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of the Internet and Enterprise Management, Szilagyi has used a computer simulation to help answer the transport dilemma of facing large cities.
The received wisdom suggests that the answer lies with public transportation. "If there were no cars but reliable trains and buses, everyone could get anywhere quickly and without traffic jams," says Szilagyi. His simulation greatly simplifies the issues, but works by considering each person to be cooperating if they use public transportation or defect if they selfishly choose to take their care. The decisions of all the individuals using the roads cooperatively or in defecting will accumulate over time to produce a collective order that will determine the success or failure of the transportation system.
If everyone defects, then there will be permanent gridlock. But, even if a few individuals choose the bus, this will not help, because the buses will also be gridlocked. Defectors and cooperators are both punished for the irresponsible behavior of the majority.
In contrast, if everyone uses the bus, the buses will be crowded although can move freely on otherwise empty streets. Everyone gets to their destination quickly but in less comfort and without the benefits of privacy, in-car audio, or a trunk for transporting cumbersome items.
If just a few individuals defect at this point, then they get the biggest reward, because they can move even faster, avoid the crowd in the bus, and have all the other advantages (and costs) of personal transport.
Szilagyi points out that the simulation reveals some of the characteristics of the well-known "game theory" game Chicken Dilemma. "The simulation shows that it is quite possible to achieve a situation when the majority of people prefer mass transportation," he says, "This can be done by running large buses frequently and on separate traffic lanes."
Ultimately, the simulation shows that if most people are happy to take the bus, and just a few people defect and drive by car, then there is a comfortable level of crowding on the buses, no gridlock and a few happy drivers with full trunks.
Reference: "Cars or buses: computer simulation of a social and economic dilemma" in Int. J. Internet and Enterprise Management, 2009, 6, 23-30
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Women are flying solo, on Broadway and off
Well, it's Women's History Month again. Stifle that shrug. The theater -- no doubt by happenstance -- is suddenly flush with biographical solos about women, all dead, most recently and one not recent at all.
As we speak, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is being brilliantly, brutally yet compassionately deconstructed by actress Tina Benko in Nobel-Prize winning Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek's "Jackie" at the Women's Project Theater.
Meanwhile, on Broadway, Ann Richards, the feisty former Texas governor, is being lovingly impersonated in "Ann" by actor-playwright Holland Taylor.
Previews begin March 26 for the April 22 opening of Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary," which means we get the chance to watch the amazing Fiona Shaw share what is billed as the mother of Jesus' own story -- "the one which has not been heard."
Another story that has not been heard is the one Bette Midler is rehearsing to ignite as Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first woman superagent, who represented anybody lucky enough to be somebody. John Logan's play, deliciously titled "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers," begins previews April 5 for an April 24 opening.
What this means, for starters, is that four women actors are individually getting to hold stages in a theater that, some days, seems more interested in men dressing up as women.
Also, the onslaught marks the return, at least for a month or two, of the one-person bio. Not so long ago, seasons often included an historical solo -- about Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Thurgood Marshall. These days, we are more likely to see William Shatner and Mike Tyson talking about themselves.
The most famous one-woman bio in my conscious lifetime was "The Belle of Amherst," Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson, which I found precious but many adored. Otherwise, all I can remember are three separate portrayals of Tallulah Bankhead.
Julie Crosby, artistic director of the thriving Women's Project, has her own seriously amusing theory on our one-woman boomlet. She calls it "the Hillary Clinton effect." In a recent phone interview, Crosby speculated that "more people may be willing to look at a woman in a spotlight . . . Also, the culture may be at a point when we can acknowledge that women are as messy and complex as men."
The two plays I've already seen -- "Jackie" and "Ann" -- are complete opposites in mythmaking style and idealized intention. "Jackie" is part of Jelinek's cycle of "Princess Plays," including explorations of Snow White and Princess Diana, and, as the knotty writer told Yale's Theater magazine, represent "a pre-stage of femininity." Stuck in a dirty cement space that could be a drained pool -- or hell -- Benko's tough Jackie virtuosically, almost absent-mindedly, explains the many aspects of manipulating and being manipulated as a fashion icon. Oh, yes, she also lugs silver-foil crash dummies meant to be Jack, Ari, Bobby and her dead babies. Clearly, this is not for the easily shocked.
In stark contrast, we have Taylor's meticulous impersonation of the pioneering one-term Texas governor and pioneering, shrewd good-old-gal. The intention is to create a portrait which, despite a few warts and salty words, is admiring and celebratory.
The women playing Mary and Sue Mengers have different challenges. Irish actress Shaw and her director/collaborator Deborah Warner have already haunted us with visions of T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land" and Euripides' "Medea." Theatergoers are less likely to divide over the look of Shaw's Mary than her words about, even then, life in a man's world.
Many people know how Mengers looked and sounded, but few of them are regular Broadway theatergoers. In his online editor's letter in April's Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter -- close friend of Mengers and a producer of the play -- talks about the Maureen Dowd interview with Midler in that new issue.
He writes how "Dowd talked at length with Bette not only about the similarities between Mengers' and Midler's backgrounds and lives but also about the difficulties in playing a real person of recent vintage, and one with a lot of friends who will be watching to see if the production does her justice."
Except for Midler's extravagant clam-on-a-half-shell specials, the actress has not been on Broadway since 1967, when she was a replacement Tzeitel in "Fiddler on the Roof." According to Carter, the casting took persuasion, but "She knew Sue, Sue adored her, and not to get too showbizzy on you, it seemed like a perfect match."
Tina Packer's "Women of Will" is neither a one-woman show (Nigel Gore is her expert sidekick) nor a nonfiction biography. But Packer, the founding director and force of nature behind Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., is ensconced downtown with her revelatory, extremely friendly feminist analysis of Shakespeare's evolution as seen through the growing power of his women characters.
So I phoned to get her wisdom on our apparent new interest in solo bios about women. "Women are looking to strengthen their voices," she said with deceptive simplicity. "One of the ways to do that is to strengthen the voices of other women. With Shakespeare, he saw the way out through the women's voices."
Of course, there is another one-person play on Broadway this spring -- "Macbeth." Alan Cumming plays all the characters. Lady Macbeth need not apply.
"JACKIE" -- Women's Project Theater, 131 W. 55th St., nycitycenter.org.
"ANN" -- Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, telecharge.com
"THE TESTAMENT OF MARY" -- opens April 22, Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St., telecharge.com
"I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS" -- opens April 24, Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St., telecharge.com
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President Barack Obama has no public events planned for Tuesday and not many planned for the remainder of the week. Many at the White House and in Congress believe, the less anyone campaigns publicly, the better their chances at striking a deal. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
If Obama and Boehner are able to strike a deal, it will more than likely be a fragile one… Labor battle in Michigan: right to work and right to protest… Labor takes another punch… But will it be another Pyrrhic victory for the GOP (at least in the short run)?... Will the RNC's autopsy satisfy conservatives who are charging that establishment GOPers are simply making money off the party, win or lose?... Nikki Haley to hold news conference at noon ET (but isn't expected to announce appointment)… And meet Sean Patrick Maloney.
Speaker of the House John Boehner provides an update on the fiscal cliff negotiations, placing pressure on the White House to reveal how they intend to compromise with House Republicans on spending cuts.
*** A fragile deal? While there's some optimism that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner can strike a deal to avert the looming tax hikes and spending cuts -- no news is good news, after all – it's important to point out how fragile any deal would likely be. If there will be serious tax and entitlement reform, you'll have triggers to enforce them. So essentially, you're solving this so-called fiscal cliff by creating new ones. Here are the reasons for optimism: Obama and Boehner met on Sunday; the president's public schedule is mostly free today (suggesting that he's busy working on this matter); and more and more Republicans are coming around to the idea that they're probably going to have to cave on tax rates. But here's the pessimism: raising the debt ceiling. We're hearing that this issue might be the biggest obstacle right now. More than taxes or entitlements, that issue appears to be the one that GOP leaders might have the hardest time convincing the rank-and-file to hand over to the Obama White House and Democrats in any kind of deal. And the White House may not realize how important it is for Boehner to stick to his guns on this.
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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at the Daimler Detroit Diesel engine plant Dec. 10, 2012 in Redford, Mi.
*** Right to work and right to protest: As NBC's Mike O'Brien reported yesterday, "Republicans stand on the cusp of delivering a major blow to organized labor, as they prepare to vote Tuesday on legislation to make Michigan – a state linked to unions in the public conscious – a 'right to work' state." And Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has said he would sign the legislation into law. The protests have already begun, the Detroit News adds. "Union members turned out early in the morning, dead set on protesting the controversial legislation… At 5 a.m. Tuesday, Michigan Laborers started to unload their supplies for the day. The union came prepared with tents and hand warmers to withstand the chilly 22-degree weather." But it is worth noting a couple of reasons why labor and Democrats are losing this fight, even in Michigan. For one thing, the Democratic Party isn't united on this issue; after all, there are several prominent Democratic politicians (Virginia's Mark Warner and Tim Kaine come immediately to mind) who hail from right-to-work states. Also, labor lost the framing of this national debate. Despite the merits of compulsory union dues and membership -- if you're going to receive the benefits from a collective-bargaining agreement, you've got to pay the dues -- Republicans and the businesses largely have succeeded in making this about choice.
*** Labor takes another punch: Even though the last few decades generally haven't been kind to America's labor movement -- with union participation rates declining -- it still has remained a political force. The unions' money and ground efforts matter. So, too, do their endorsements in Democratic primaries. But if there's one theme to the labor battles we've seen over the past two years, with the latest one taking place in Michigan, it's that Republican politicians have been more than willing to punch organized labor in the face, even in its own backyard. Yes, unions have been able to hit back. In 2011, they overturned Ohio's anti-collective-bargaining effort. And they also were able to recall a handful of GOP state senators in Wisconsin. But they bet big on trying to oust Gov. Scott Walker (R) from office, and they lost.
*** Pyrrhic victories? All that said, it is worth noting that the anti-union efforts and other aggressive actions by the 2010 class of Republican governors -- Florida's Rick Scott, Ohio's John Kasich, Wisconsin's Scott Walker -- have been Pyrrhic victories, at least in the short term. For starters, Obama again won in all of these states in 2012, proving that weakening labor in these states didn't hurt the Democratic incumbent. Also consider that Kasich and Scott, in particular, aren't sure bets for re-election in 2014. In fact, while a new Quinnipiac poll shows Kasich's approval rating to be above water for the first time since taking office, a plurality of voters say he doesn't deserve a second term in office. But for labor, there's also no evidence they are going to be able to win this right-to-work battle -- or even future ones. How does labor regroup? Does it decide to concede on things like right-to-work in favor of collective bargaining?
*** Will the RNC's autopsy satisfy conservatives? The Republican National Committee yesterday launched an effort -- dubbed the "Growth and Opportunity Project" -- to examine what worked and what didn't in the 2012 election. And five Republicans will chair the initiative: RNC member Henry Barbour of Mississippi, RNC member Zori Fonalledas of Puerto Rico, RNC member Glenn McCall of South Carolina, Florida political strategist (and Jeb Bush adviser) Sally Bradshaw, and former Bush 43 White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The question we have is whether this autopsy effort will satisfy conservatives who believe that establishment Republicans are simply making money off the GOP, win or lose. As Breitbart columnist Michael Patrick Leahy recently wrote, "Federal Election Commission reports filed by the Republican National Committee on Thursday show that one-third of the $59.3 million it spent directly with vendors in the last five weeks of the election was paid to one telemarketing firm, FLS Connect, LLC," which just happens to be co-founded by the RNC's current chief of staff. Prominent conservative Erick Erickson has made a similar charge. And then there's question whether these five chairs -- Barbour, Fonalledas, Bradshaw, McCall, Fleischer -- are too establishment. After all, there isn't a single person from the conservative grassroots here. Say what you want about Howard Dean and the DNC from 2005-2008, but he was willing to break china to fix things. Can the same be said of the current RNC?
*** Haley to hold news conference: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is holding a news conference at noon ET in North Charleston, SC. Per NBC's Ali Weinberg, Haley isn't expected to announce her appointment to fill Sen. Jim DeMint's Senate seat. But yesterday, the governor said she WILL NOT appoint a placeholder, saying: "I believe South Carolina will be best served by a U.S. senator who will work hard day in and day out, and put him or herself before the voters at the soonest possible time," Haley said in a statement. "Accordingly, I reject the option of a 'placeholder.'"
*** Meet Sean Patrick Maloney: NBC's Carrie Dann has profiled 10 new members to watch in the next Congress. Today's profile: Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY). "A former senior adviser in President Bill Clinton's administration, Sean Patrick Maloney also worked as a staffer for New York governors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson before mounting his own political run. Maloney unseated Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in a New York's redrawn 18th District. The first openly gay New York congressman, Maloney and his partner Randy Florke have three adopted children together. Maloney once told New York Magazine that his hero is fictional lawyer Atticus Finch and came in third in New York's 2006 Democratic primary for attorney general. In addition to his career as a behind-the-scenes political aide, Maloney also made a name at two prestigious New York law firms. He was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP before moving to Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP."
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The Gunners spent 128 days at the Premier League summit this season but they lost top spot with a 5-1 hammering at Anfield in early February and never regained it.
Arsene Wenger's side eventually finished fourth, although they went on to win the FA Cup, and Giroud believes a number of issues contributed to their league campaign unravelling.
"We were on top for a good half of the season and then we cracked," he told French newspaper Midi-Libre.
"I believe we lacked maturity and that we had a lot of injuries at an important time.
"Above all we weren't able to adapt to the big teams.
"We have to show progress in these matches, to maybe play less football, but it's difficult because it's our playing philosophy."
Giroud finished his second season in England with 16 league goals and feels comfortable enough to already be looking to extend his current deal with the Gunners.
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I've had a not bad first season and a second that was mainly good
I hope to do even better," he added.
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Future IT visions from experts at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, IBM, Accela and TerreStar Networks
Most of us watch for technology trends and forecasts about what kinds of advancements are around the corner. Showcasing the latest and greatest - and predicting what's to come - are big reasons why magazines like Wired and Popular Mechanics are so, well, popular.
But once the overhyped gadgetry and consumer electronics are stripped away, what core technologies are changing - or will change - the way government business gets done? Government Technology decided to find out by asking the people who build the technologies of today and tomorrow.
What follows are conversations with industry leaders who offer insight into technology trends important now and glimpses of what will be important in the future - and how these technology trends will change government.
The dream of the paperless office, at least on the public-sector side, is dead. Until every American has unfettered Web access, paper documents will always remain. So until some yet-undiscovered solution is found, numerous technology firms are rolling out products that can help paper over the paper problem.
One such firm, not surprisingly, is HP. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is currently promoting its Exstream line of document automation solutions. According to Scott Draeger, manager of product strategy at HP, the company sees a future where document management is done in the cloud.
That involves moving one of HP's strengths into the mobile workspace - printing. In mid-April, HP and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, announced HP ePrint, an enterprise printing solution that allows BlackBerry users to print an array of documents directly from the smartphone, with or without wires.
"EPrint is what we call cloud printing. And cloud printing from the BlackBerry is going to change the way a number of people work," said Gary Rodgers, HP's worldwide market development consultant. "It's going to make things a lot easier for people."
With any new enterprise technology, the IT security guys tend to be wary. But Rodgers said security was an important component of ePrint's development.
"Of course everyone is concerned about security and the way our ePrint solution works. It takes advantage of an organization's existing BlackBerry environment, so their current environment is secure when they use ePrint," he said. "It doesn't alter that environment or open it up to any kind of security risk. So it adopts their existing security structure."
In addition to printing from a mobile phone, HP intends to capitalize on printing in another dimension. With the success of 3-D movies and the much-hyped arrival of 3-D TVs, it's only natural that 3-D is making its way to ... printers? Actually 3-D printing - which is really the process of creating plastic models from computer-aided drafting designs - was first developed in the 1990s by a Minnesota-based company called Stratasys. Back then, 3-D printers were as large as they were expensive. In late April, however, Stratasys and Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a jointly created and more reasonably priced 3-D printer - the HP Designjet 3D - a 120-pound device with a price tag around $17,500. While created primarily for product prototyping, 3-D printing can be applied to fields like science and medicine that would benefit from having tangible models available. Some even speculate that 3-D printers might one day be able to churn out replacement human organs.
Sophisticated performance measures will help public officials deliver.
Back in the mid-1990s the New York City Police Department began using an organizational management and crime reduction tool it called CompStat. Now adopted by law enforcement agencies around the nation, CompStat pioneered the use of data analytics to measure and improve performance, as well as identify and prevent crime. The system was rudimentary, consisting largely of pins on
a map, but coupled with metrics and management, the system delivered results.
Now, analytics is all-digital and can be seen in Maryland's StateStat system and even Recovery.gov, the White House's stimulus accountability website. Analytics has become one of the most important technology trends in public-sector IT. Powerful data analysis is being used for everything from driving better performance outcomes to predicting roadway traffic trends.
Robert Dolan, a business analytics expert in IBM's public-sector group, said analytics can help resource-strapped government agencies deliver programs that meet citizens' expectations.
"Really being able to use analytics to drive better financial [and] operational outcomes is where we see everything moving right now," Dolan said.
A growing amount of sensor data can be fed into sophisticated analytic software to help governments manage performance, he said. For instance, bus-mounted sensors can track on-time performance for public transit systems. Or sensors in water systems can detect leaky pipes and notify public works officials. This data can be used to populate dashboards and scorecards that help agencies gauge their performance against policy goals.
Taking a page from CompStat, the next-generation analytics also are predictive, making it possible to use trends and past performance to predict what's going to happen. Dolan gave the example of a hot, Fourth of July day. Data shows that the holiday and weather combine to yield higher instances of gunfire.
"Taking that past information, we can almost predict how, when and where we have to allocate our resources so we can prevent that from happening," Dolan said. "And we see that in social services; we see that in transportation. So it's taking all this information and being able to use it in a way to measure and monitor our performances and predict what our outcomes may be."
Dolan predicts analytics will make its way into almost every corner of government -improving student test scores and deterring dropouts, preventing crime hot spots, improving foster care, predicting traffic patterns and even forecasting infrastructure failures before they occur.
"It is about making the right decisions and maximizing resources to drive positive outcomes," he said. "It's making sure we are able to deliver services at the level that citizens expect, and at the same time don't break the budget and allow us to keep moving forward. It is ultimately about the outcome."
Cloud services and new interfaces will spark innovation and savings.
In a speech at the University of Washington earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared that the company's entire future would be focused on cloud computing. From within the cloud, Microsoft intends to create a new generation of devices, interfaces and means to connect.
Lewis Shepherd, general manager and director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, explained why his company believes the future is in the cloud.
"The ability to utilize storage, processing, applications, middleware and even programming environments, all hosted remotely by a third party through the cloud -
that's an enormous enabler for any state or local government to expand the mission activities they're providing to their customers and users, to stretch their IT dollars further and also to indulge in new creative innovation," Shepherd said.
Social media also is becoming capable of serving as lower-cost test beds for development, Shepherd said, giving IT shops an option other than building the dedicated systems they've had to provide themselves for years. Shepherd cited Microsoft SharePoint as an example. He said instead of building a stand-alone system in-house for a specific function, one can instead integrate social media and social networking capabilities within SharePoint and then add those capabilities to all existing SharePoint pages and sites to enable collaboration, online sharing and networking.
"The requirement to do more with less is never going be more real than over the next couple of years," he said. "So people are having to be creative and looking for hosted and other kinds of shared services, which is why I think cloud computing and social media are becoming so attractive."
On the hardware front, Microsoft is making forays into the mobile phone market and expanding the usability of its impressive but bulky Surface computing system.
This year, Microsoft released its Kin line of mobile phones, which are designed for social media lovers, and will release Windows Phone 7, which will feature social media tools but will be aimed at a professional audience.
"[The Windows Phone 7] is an evolution of what Microsoft has learned over the past decade of providing mobile solutions," Shepherd said. "When it's released this fall, it's going to add a native integration of powerful social networking capabilities. It's going to bring a new degree of sophistication to the touch environment. I think it's going to be the first mobile platform to bring a full understanding of the professional needs and rigor that people expect to do work remotely."
Shepherd also said Microsoft Surface - the touchscreen, table-sized computer that has been both admired and mocked - will, along with interfaces in general, start to rapidly evolve.
"We actually see the development of immersive environments coming along much faster than people realize. There will be multiple opportunities to engage in a tactile way with the personal and professional computing experience you want," he said. "In the next couple years, you're going to have Surface-like computing experiences that will fit into the social milieu and the professional environment in very natural ways, as opposed to having to congregate around a particular table."
Improving mobile technology may bring the government office to you.
It's no secret that citizens want to interact with government electronically. But expectations are continually growing about the kinds of transactions citizens can conduct online and the type of devices they can conduct them on.
Citizens want to be able to interact with government online as thoroughly as they could in an office, said Maury Blackman, president and CEO of Accela. With the growing number of smartphones, demand is increasing for full-scale interactions via these devices.
"Self-service mechanisms need to be in place so citizens can start a transaction, complete it, print, walk away and get a PDF that they can move forward with," Blackman said.
But self-service need not only apply to citizens looking to get a permit or renew their vehicle registration. Self-service for government employees in the field is equally important, especially when trying to maximize resources and return on investment.
"We see technology and mobile devices being able to bring government directly into a community, so that case workers, license issuance, all can be done at job locations," Blackman said. "If you want to renew your business license, someone might show up at your job site and say, 'Hey, we know your license is about to expire in a month. Can I take care of that for you right now?' So you didn't even have to think about it, it's just done."
Blackman added that Apple's new iPad could accelerate development of new mobile services, because the device's form factor lends itself to taking more technology into the field.
"I was fantasizing of a government drive-through where you have government workers in the parking lot with iPads as people are driving through and saying, 'Hey I need a license, I need a permit, I need to schedule an inspection, I need to ask a question.' And someone is standing there with an iPad or similar device. I think
the iPad is just the leading edge. Other technology providers are surely going to have to respond to this. We are on a whole new cusp of innovation."
New satellite technology brings smartphone features to disaster-ready communications.
In disaster situations, communication is vital. But in cases where disasters damage or destroy communications equipment, exchanging information can become nearly impossible. That is, unless, the hardware that facilitates communication is impervious to earthly dangers - such as a satellite perched 22,000 miles above the ground, safely away from hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and terrorists.
Satellite phones have been around for years, but they've never worked as well or offered as many features as the devices routinely shown in movies and on TV. Reston, Va.-based TerreStar Networks intends to change that. Last summer, the company launched what it claims is the world's largest and most powerful communications satellite, TerreStar-1, which will power the world's first satellite smartphone, the Genus.
"Our satellite was launched July 1 last year," said Dennis Matheson, CTO of TerreStar Networks. "Since then we've been doing different integration activities of the new network, which is an all-IP wireless network, and we're ready to roll out our first service offering."
The Genus is actually a terrestrial and satellite smartphone rolled into a single device. It offers a QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen and the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. Users can make voice calls, send text messages and check e-mail.
Under normal circumstances the device uses AT&T's cellular network. But when terrestrial networks are down or unavailable, all its communication and data transfer features are still available thanks to the satellite. This sets the Genus apart from past satellite phones which required their own device, phone number, batteries and a clunky housing.
"What we wanted to do was to put a unit on the hip of a person that would be their day-in and day-out device, yet would have satellite capabilities at the same time when they needed it," Matheson said. "If you see our unit, it's a little bit larger than a BlackBerry."
Currently it costs users an extra $24.99 per month to add satellite capability to the Genus. But Matheson said chipset agreements with manufacturers, such as Qualcomm and Infineon, mean TerreStar Networks anticipates the monthly price dropping to as little as $5. The company also is investigating the possibility of incorporating the technology into emergency response vehicles.
Still, the technology isn't perfect. Users need an unobstructed view of the southern sky to use the satellite functions. But, Matheson added, "It's not one of these [situations] where you have to be right there, standing still, basically aimed at a specific spot."


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I am using the size of a JPanel to control the bounds of display for a circle drawn in a program I'm writing. In short, the circle cannot move outside the width or height of the JPanel. However, I'm having trouble discerning the JPanel's width and height...
The JPanel is created using this code:
displayPanel = new JPanel() { public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { //Construct the graphics Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; //Fill the background black g2.setPaint(getBackground()); g2.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight()); //Draw the circle g2.setPaint(Color.BLUE); g2.fillOval((int)ball.getX(), (int)ball.getY(), ball.getRadius() * 2, ball.getRadius() * 2); } }; displayPanel.setBackground(Color.BLACK); //... "displayPanel" is added to a JPanel called "panel" by this code ... panel = new JPanel(new GridBagLayout()); GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints(); c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH; c.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER; c.weightx = 0.5; c.weighty = 0.5; c.gridx = 0; c.gridy = 0; c.gridwidth = 3; c.gridheight = 2; c.ipady = 300; panel.add(displayPanel, c);
Later, however, when I try to derive the width and height of displayPanel, it does not work:
However, when ball's constructor calls displayPanel.getWidth() and displayPanel.getHeight(), is receives 0 for both.//Ball is an object that manages the location of the circle ball = new Ball(7, 30, 45, 20, 20, displayPanel.getWidth(), displayPanel.getHeight());
Can anyone provide me with a solution to this annoyance? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


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It was fourth an 18. Georgia had just sucked all of the momentum out of the stadium. Or so it seemed. Nick Marshall dropped back to pass and launched a deep ball out of as much desperation as he had hope. It was deflected by a Georgia defender and for a split second it looked as though Alabama would be one step closer to wrapping up the SEC West tonight. But then, as fate would have it, the ball landed in the hands of Ricardo Louis, who ran uncontested to the end zone to capture a 43-38 lead that seemed improbable just two seconds before. But this seesaw battle would not end without one last effort from Aaron Murray and Georgia, but Murray's final pass was hopeless as he was hit as he threw. This time the ball fell to the ground instead of one lucky receiver's hands with nothing but daylight in front of him.
Auburn 45, Georgia 38. Whew!
After holding off Georgia (6-3, 4-2 SEC) Saturday, Auburn (10-1, 5-1 SEC) is now in control of their SEC West fate. All that is standing in the way is the top-ranked team in the country, the two-time defending BCS champions and the biggest rival of them all for Auburn; Alabama. Oh, is that all?
The stage for a monumental Iron Bowl match-up in two weeks is now halfway set. Auburn will get a week off to rest and prepare for Alabama, who likely will come to Auburn with an undefeated record as the top-ranked team in the country (assuming the Tide win Saturday night). The way Auburn has been playing of late under head coach Gus Malzahn, the Tigers look to be the biggest threat to Alabama on their quest for a third straight BCS title. As it turns out, Auburn could still figure in to the BCS Championship equation. A win over Alabama would send Auburn in to the SEC championship game. Would a one-loss SEC champion be passed by an undefeated Ohio State or Baylor, or perhaps a one-loss Pac 12 champion (Stanford or Oregon)? The debates would be fascinating, but you could make a very strong case for Auburn given the national perception of the SEC.
But none of that will come in t play if Auburn does not beat Alabama at home for the first time since 2007.
On Saturday, Auburn looked about as worthy of a challenge to Alabama as any. The Tigers rolled up over 500 yards of offense, highlighted by a 100-yard rushing performance from Tre Mason and the dual-threat play of quarterback Marshall. Eight different players caught a pass for Auburn and the offense avoided a turnover.
Auburn also needed to dig deep and hold off a furious rally by Georgia. Trailing 37-17 in the fourth quarter, Aaron Murray threw two touchdowns to trim a 20-point deficit to a one-score game, and his controversial touchdown run gave Georgia a brief lead. Video replay showed Murray's knee may have touched the ground before getting the ball across the goal line but there was not enough indisputable evidence to overturn the original touchdown call. It seemed as though Georgia had managed to escape with a win against all odds and set themselves up for a potential rematch with Alabama in the SEC Championship Game.
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Plasmate 1.0: A Plasma Workspaces SDK
The Plasma Workspaces team is excited to announce the first stable release of Plasmate: an add-ons SDK that focuses on ease of use.
The launch page provides a running start. From here one can create a new Plasma widget, DataEngine, Runner search plugin, SVG desktop theme, window switcher (or "alt-tab") plugin, desktop effect or window manager script. Previous projects are also listed, and can be continued with a single click. Importing existing projects from disk or from KDE Apps is also fast and easy.
The project environment reflects the creative workflow. Shortcuts for managing save points, previewing, installing and publishing, keeping project notes, reading documentation and managing assets are all within easy reach. As part of this workflow-based approach, saving progress to disk is handled automatically. A revision control system is transparently integrated to create, view and roll back to save points.
Plasmate provides automatic packaging and editors for metadata and other configuration files. Thus the focus is on creating rather than mastering all the implementation details involved in how a Plasma package is assembled. Image viewers, an advanced text editor, debug output viewer and an interactive live preview complete the experience.
When the project is ready to be distributed, the Export Project system will create a compressed package which can be saved to disk, installed locally, published online or even installed to a device over the network via SSH for quick and easy prototyping. Combined with the project import capabilities of the start page, an existing add-on from KDE Apps can be imported, modified, tested it on multiple devices locally and then uploaded as a new creation to KDE Apps in a matter of minutes.
Plasmate integrates several excellent Free Software tools in order to provide these features including Kate for text editing, git for revision control and GnuPG for cryptographic signing. Also bundled with Plasmate are a set of helpful development tools including a DataEngine viewer (plasmaengineexplorer), a stand-alone Plasmoid viewer (plasmoidviewer), a wallpaper plugin viewer (plasmawallpaperviewer) and a remote widgets browser (plasma-remote-widgets-browser).
A screencast demonstrating the features of Plasmate 1.0:
Plasmate has been made possible through the combined efforts of 46 different developers and numerous translators who have localized Plasmate in a variety of languages. The current maintainers are Giorgos and Antonis Tsiapaliokas. Find and interact with Plasmate developers in #plasma on irc.freenode.net or on the [email protected] mailing list.
Download the source code for Plasmate 1.0 or clone the source code repository via the Plasmate project page.
Debian packages
Any word on the possibility of Debian/Kubuntu packaging for Plasmate?
By Ken at Tue, 2013/03/05 - 6:17pm
Project Neon PPA has Plasmate
Project Neon PPA has Plasmate .DEB
By juancarlospaco at Wed, 2013/03/06 - 8:25am
Just what I need to finally experiment with plasma development.
Suggestion - perhaps link to the plasma-devel subscription page (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel) rather than just the mailto for the list address. [Editor note: added - thank you]
By Lindsay Mathieson at Tue, 2013/03/05 - 8:59pm
UI Editor?
Just tested it, and looks promising. How about adding some kind of UI editor for Plasma widgets?
By lokster at Wed, 2013/03/06 - 10:16am
Great! :)
«Plasmate follows the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well"»
Ah, if all developers would think the same... we would have a quarter of the projects we have for so many things but most of them well done (home many QT browsers are there around, 4, 5? And how many work well, none?)
Anyway, a nice program to start developing widgets. I suppose it must be more limited than «real» programming, no? Anyway is a great program, necessary, I'd say, to let non programmers who have cool ideas participate in the KDE's development and enrichment. Thanks for your work.
By MEDINT for Chávez at Wed, 2013/03/06 - 3:33pm
Wrong version in About?
Could it be that in Help > About Plasmate the version string is wrong? i only get plasmate 0.1alpha3.
By Anonversionus at Sun, 2013/03/10 - 11:41am
Cutting Edge
These are the tools that make the lives of EVERYONE so awesome!
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When Registered users, who are logged in, create a Ticket, their name and email from their user account will be used. If their user account name and/or email is changed, their name and email on their new and existing Tickets will also change.
Users are only required to enter a Description, all other fields are optional. Click the Submit Ticket button to create a new Ticket.
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They will receive an email that will contain a special password that will allow them to access only the Ticket they created. They will only be able to add comments to the Ticket. They will not be able to change the status, edit any fields, or delete any items.
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Proud, tall and powerful, the lion-like litorians are the noble savages of the Lands of the Diamond Throne. Even as they spread, struggle and prosper away from their ancestral homes on the central plains of Dor-Erthenos, they carry the deeds of their forefathers and the honor of their people like a regal cloak. Litorians examines the secrets, abilities and psychology of Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved's plains-dwelling race and reveals why they are so much more than just "cat people".
This product was created as part of the Litorians Patronage Project
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With political leaders turning up the volume on talk of "the GIC," parents may wonder why an issue that sounds like inside baseball could make a big difference for what happens in their children's classrooms in the next year.
With political leaders turning up the volume on talk of "the GIC," parents may wonder why an issue that sounds like inside baseball could make a big difference for what happens in their children's classrooms in the next year. But here's why this inside baseball could be a home run for Massachusetts children.
GIC stands for "Group Insurance Commission" — the entity that provides health insurance to state workers. Parents, however, should read it as "Guard Instruction for Children" because it's key to preserving public school funding in these challenging economic times.
Municipal health benefit costs have risen on average 13 percent a year, but the GIC did much better, keeping increases around 8 percent because of its bulk purchasing power.
With budget cuts an inevitable consequence of the recession, one thing we should do right away is help towns and cities save money by moving into the GIC or an equivalent plan. Cautious estimates predict at least $100 million in savings if all communities got the same value in health benefits that the state gets. That's $100 million or more we can use to keep teachers in classrooms.
This is critical because despite Gov. Deval Patrick's courageous commitment recently to protect state aid for classrooms, the fact is the state pays less than half the bill for educating Massachusetts kids. Towns and cities pay the lion's share of school costs, and in our incredible shrinking economy, they're going to have to make tough budget calls this spring.
We should untie the hands of towns and cities so they can comparison-shop for the best value plans for their employees. Town managers ought to be free to choose health plans that best meet their community's overall needs, while the collective bargaining process settles how towns and employees share the premium costs. That solution preserves teachers' rights to health benefits, and saves money we can use to keep teachers in our schools.
State leaders have batted around a lot of ideas on GIC savings recently. They need to hear from voters that this inside baseball matters for kids.
We want to guard instruction for children, and health benefit savings are a potential $100 million home run for kids.
Leslie Nicholson is a Lexington resident and the state director of Stand for Children, a statewide education advocacy organization.


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DOVER — Residents from around the Tri-City area are expected to flock to Dover for the city's annual Independence Day celebration today, which includes free family activities, musical entertainment and a fireworks show at the conclusion of the evening.
Festivities will kick off at 10 a.m. with a reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of City Hall by the Garrison Players, a community theater group that has been performing on the Fourth of July for many years.
"We definitely look forward to it every year," said Megan Davenport Karas, marketing director of the Garrison Players Arts Center. "It's a long-standing tradition."
Events at the Rotary Arts Pavilion at Henry Law Park will begin at 5 p.m. with a performance by the Dover Community Band. Following them at 6 p.m. will be The 39th Army Band of New Hampshire, which also performed during last year's Independence Day celebrations.
"Our entertainment lineup this year really speaks to being Dover," says Michael Mengers, community events manager for the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the evening's festivities. "The fact that the New Hampshire Army Band requests to come to Dover — that's a great honor for us. It's a very Dover-centric feel."
The Dover-based 80s tribute band Gazpacho, back for a second straight Fourth of July, will round out the musical performances with a two-hour set.
"It was great last year," band member Gary Leighton said. "I'm definitely looking forward to it. It's kind of neat to have a show where the kids are out and have a good time."
Gazpacho's performance will start at 7:30 p.m. and continue through the beginning of the fireworks display, which is set to begin at 9:15 p.m. above lower Henry Law Park. Leighton says that the chance to play as fireworks explode overhead makes the experience more fun.
"It works out really neat because it gives a better musical setting to the fireworks" Leighton said. "You feel like you're in KISS. It's actually really, really cool."
In addition to the musical performances, residents will have plenty to occupy them as they wait for the fireworks. The New Hampshire Children's Museum is providing a pair of activities, free of charge, in the lower portion of Henry Law Park from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Youngsters are invited to test their bubble-blowing skills with the use of extra-large bubble wands or to help with the creation of a large, collaborative American flag mosaic. The museum itself will be closed for the holiday, but the museum's director of marketing, Heidi Duncanson, said that they still wanted to find ways to participate in the city's celebrations.
"I think it will be really fun out there, and patriotic," Duncanson said.
New Frontiers Church is hosting other arts and crafts activities while Play! will be providing a bounce house. Residents will not be short on food options, either. People will be able to purchase carnival-style food such as fried dough, cotton candy, pizza and more. Nearly 15,000 people are expected to attend throughout the evening, with nearly 10,000 viewing the fireworks.
The celebrations provide an opportunity not only for Dover residents to meet with their community, but for visitors to experience what Dover has to offer.
"For me, what it signifies, it's the kickoff of summer," Mengers said. "It's getting people active and getting them out and participating. We love people coming from other towns to see all the activity that goes on in Dover, to eat at our restaurants and shop at our stores."
Dover's Independence Day festivities are free of charge, but donations ($3 for individuals, $8 for families) are encouraged. For more information about Dover's Fourth of July activities, visit http://www.dovernh.org/July4th.


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GateHouse News Service National Budget For 11/30/07 editions Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. NOTE: JEAN HODGES is off this week. Contacts: Michael Toeset, 630-835-8870, 708-785-4355, email@example.com --Lifestyles/Religion-- RELIGION NEWS: Weekly religion rail. This week's top item -- on the controversial "Golden Compass" -- has reader feedback. Please insert your paper's contact info. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x118353684 MICHAEL MILLER: A different view from a Jewish woman – her view is that the Israeli government is oppressing the Palestinian people thanks to what she said is a Zionist vision of a Jewish-only state and a desire to control resources and wield power. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x118353537 KIDNEY DONATION: Pastor receives the gift of life from another pastor. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x805318182 GHOST WHISPERER: Meet the real 'Ghost Whisperer' -- CBS show about paranormal investigator based on woman's real-life experiences with the dead. NOTE: There are several Ohio-specific references -- can be localized, deleted. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x187563125 SUZETTE STANDRING: The human touch is a powerful source of healing. Witness that when a child cries, our first impulse is to hug. We put our arms around grieving friends. After long absences, we embrace. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/religion/x1855994239 --Lifestyles/Entertainment-- THE FARR SIDE: America got it right with Jordin Sparks when they voted her the next "American Idol." http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x118354089 WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? If you haven't seen Rockford's weekly snarky horoscopes, you don't know what you're missing. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/columnists/x805319175 --Opinions-- GRANLUND CARTOONS: - On Bush's plan for peace in the Mideast. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x2128345009 - Another illustration tribute to/remembrance of Pearl Harbor attack. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x2031282303 - On Mitt Romney and illegal immigrants. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1122981520 MICHAEL WINSHIP: GOP debates, commercials and other afflictions. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/x540386230 PETER COSTA: Football, fire and 'The Peacock Throne.' http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/x540386188 --Sports-- FANTASY FOOTBALL: This is the year of the unknown running back. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/fantasy_football/x805319371 --News/Business-- HENRY HYDE DIES: From Chicago Suburban group. Updated version will move by early evening. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x118354698 GREEN TOMB: Lincoln's Tomb will get a new heating system that relies on geothermal technology and is much more energy and cost efficient, governor's office says. Colindres / Evening / Illinois and Ill. News GREEN CHRISTMAS: Good intentions for the environment can go out the window in the holidays. The Nature Conservancy suggests you pick just one thing to make a difference. BIBO, Peoria / Evening / Illinois and Ill. News CAR JUMP: Massachusetts woman jumps from moving car to escape estranged husband; may have saved her life by doing so. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x540386854 DIAMOND WINNER: Contest winner shares $25,000 diamond with her sister. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x118354589


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|Crossbar(Drape Support)
|3 foot - 16 foot
|Velvet/Chiffon/Velour/Poly Premier
|Usage :Wedding ,Stage ,Trade Show,Eents, Party, Scholl,Hotel,etc.
Production Feature
* Durable and rust resistant.
* Modular system.
* Easy to install, can be assembled in minutes.
* Virtually unlimited size or configuration.
* Creates theatre-like appearance.
* No extra tools required.
* Drapes can be supplied to size
* Easy for carry with special designed hand bags
Detail Production Description
Pipe and drape specification(standard size):
|Upright height :with 3ft-5ft,4ft-7ft ,5ft-8ft, 6ft~10ft,7ft-12ft ,8ft-14ft , 9ft-16ft ,9ft-16ft, 10ft-18ft,11ft-20ft ,12ft-22ft,13ft-24ft ,14ft-26ft adjustable ,have 2 piece ,3 piece
Telescopic crossbars(Floor width):2ft-3ft,3ft-5ft,4ft-7ft,5ft-8ft, 6ft-10ft,7ft-12ft,8ft-10ft,8ft-14ft ,9ft-16ft
Round Crossbar: Diameter: 2.4m,2.8m,3m,3.3m,3.5m
1.Base Plate
Foundation for the pipe and drape system. pipe and drape systems starts with steel bases assembly. Bases are offered in various sizes and weights and selected based on the weight and heights of drapes to be hung.
*Base Assembly includes a base plate, , and thickness.
*Low-profile design minimizes obstruction to guests
*Zinc-plated for rust protection and long life.
*Standard bases offer 3 holes / Our typical rental base contains 8 holes for more flexibility to create pipe and drape solutions.
We offer one, two, three selections of slip-lock adjustable uprights that range from 3' -24' high (0.9 m – 7.2 m), The end of the upright with 4 slots which can be build at four sides. Also offering application for establishing system side by side. The special upright we owning is the pin was insert into the pipe, stronger and more stable it is.
*Unique slip-lock feature
*Easy to set-up and adjust freely without tools
*Locks automatically when inner pole is raised or lowered
3.Crossbar(Drape Support)
How far do you need to go horizontally? Room, Hall, Venue or outdoor place. A complete selection of adjustable horizontal drape supports – Crossbar ranging from 2-3' to 9'-16' wide. They are designed to meet any room size and will support the chosen drape.Once the hardware has been established, the drapes are selected for each horizontal section and sleeved on with ease.
Round Crossbar: Diameter: 2.4m,2.8m,3m,3.3m,3.5m
*Telescopic with button click tops
*Metal hooks at each end slip into uprights slotted openings.
*The Rule of thumb is to use a horizontal that is 1′ less than the desired hanging length
4.Fabric Drapery
We are the professional event drapery manufactory and have been in the area for years.
Drapery are available in various color and weight. Chiffon, Velvet, Velour, Poly Premier and so on.
Remark: Please contact me for how to calculate the length of the drapery!
Pipe and drape widely used for event, wedding, stage, party, hotel, school. Pipe and drape system can be application for backdrop, divider, booth, and wall cover. Pipe and drape is popular to all over the world as it is easy to adjustable and easy to install. Cost effective for many time using.
Flight case ' packing can protect the pipes and bases appropriate during tranportation and after used. Fabric Bag also can be used for small quantity pipes or bases.Easy to carry and store.
Why purchase from RK
1. Reliability
We have been designing and manufacturing flight Pipe and drape for near 20 years. Our leading design teams and strict quality control systems ensure each product from RK is reliable and ideal deals. Our quality products have well met demands of all clients around the world.
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With our own factory and product line, RK can ensure the fastest delivery in the industry. What's more, we have accumulated rich resources in shipping channels, which also promise our fastest delivery time. Our standard cases can be finished within 7days and those custom-made within 8 days.
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Iraqi authorities forced an Iranian plane to land on Monday so it could be searched for weapons bound for Syrian regime fighters, but they found only humanitarian aid and medical supplies, officials said.
Also Monday, a series of five bombs targeted security forces across Iraq, killing five and wounding more than a dozen other people, officials said.
The move to force the Damascus-bound plane to land came 10 days after Iraq said it would conduct more searches of aircraft and road vehicles bound for neighboring Syria where rebels are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In a recent visit to Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confronted Iraqi officials about Syria-bound Iranian flights over its airspace, which the U.S. suspects is being used to ferry weapons and fighters for the embattled Syrian government.
The Iranian cargo plane was found to be carrying "medical and humanitarian aid" and not weapons, government spokesman Ali al-Moussawi said.
"We ordered a surprise landing of a transport plane, but we found no banned items like weapons," he said.
Iraq has said that it does not want to be a conduit for arming either Assad's forces or the rebels in the two-year civil war. But Baghdad fears a rebel victory in neighboring Syria will create a new extremist haven on the two nations' porous 600-kilometer (320 mile) border, sparking further sectarian conflict in Iraq.
Intelligence officials have said al-Qaida fighters in Iraq already appear strengthened by cross-border cooperation with their ideological brothers in Syrian, known as the Nusra Front.
The five attacks across Iraq, which killed two soldiers, two policemen and a pro-government Sunni fighter, came as security forces are on high alert in the lead up to Tuesday's 10th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. There was no claim of responsibility for any of the attacks, but they bore the hallmark of al-Qaida fighters in Iraq, who use car bombs, suicide bombers and coordinated attacks to target security forces.
Police said a roadside bomb targeted an army vehicle in the Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Ghraib, killing two soldiers and wounding another eight.
Three other roadside bombings were reported. One killed a policeman and wounded two in Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers, (12 miles) south of Baghdad. A second wounded three policemen and four civilians in Madain, 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Baghdad. The third killed a policeman in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
In the distant northern city of Kirkuk, about 290 kilometers (180 miles) from Baghdad, a bomb stuck to the underside of a vehicle killed a fighter with the pro-government group known as the Sahwa, which has fought against al-Qaida.
Heath officials confirmed the death tolls.
All officials spoke anonymously because they weren't authorized to speak to media.


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WASHINGTON — U.S. housing starts recorded their biggest drop in almost three years in January, likely weighed down by harsh weather, but the third month of declines in permits pointed to some underlying weakness in the housing market.
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The Commerce Department said on Wednesday groundbreaking tumbled 16.0% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 880,000 units, the lowest level since September. The percentage drop was the largest since February 2011.
Starts for December were revised up to a 1.05 million-unit pace from the previously reported 999,000-unit rate.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected starts to fall to a 950,000-unit rate in January
Starts in the Midwest tumbled a record 67.7%, suggesting unseasonably cold weather could have disrupted activity. But at the same time groundbreaking in the Northeast surged to the highest since August 2008.
Frigid temperatures have been blamed for the sharp slowdown in hiring in December and January. They also chilled manufacturing output last month and have been cited for the unexpected drop in retail sales in January.
But not all of the weakness in data can be attributed to the cold weather, amid evidence the economy was already losing momentum towards the end of the fourth quarter.
Groundbreaking for single-family homes, the largest segment of the market, fell 15.9% to a 573,000-unit pace in January. That was the lowest level since August 2012. Starts for the volatile multi-family homes segment dropped 16.3% to a 307,000-unit rate.
Permits to build homes fell 5.4% in January, the largest drop in since June, to a 937,000-unit pace. Permits for single-family homes slipped 1.3%. Multifamily sector permits declined 12.1%.
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|Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang's Regular Press Conference on November 24, 2017
Q: According to reports, on November 23, Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on repatriation of the displaced people fleeing from the Rakhine State. The Bangladesh government said in a statement the same day that Myanmar agreed to launch the relevant work in two months. How do you comment on this?
A: We always support Myanmar and Bangladesh in properly resolving the relevant issue through dialogue and negotiation. Over the recent time, after rounds of interactions between the two sides, the situation on the ground at the Rakhine State was remarkably eased, and the two sides also signed a MOU on repatriation. China is delighted to see and welcomes the current positive progress.
Recently, Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a three-phase solution to the issue of the Rakhine Sate during his visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar. In the first phase, the on-site ceasefire is called for and social stability should be resumed. In the second phase, Myanmar and Bangladesh should find out feasible approaches to this issue through friendly negotiation and reach an agreement on repatriation and implement it as soon as possible. In the third phase, the international community should increase supports and inputs for poverty alleviation in the Rakhine State so as to promote development through poverty alleviation and achieve stability through development. Both Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to this.
By far, the goal of the first phase has been achieved basically, and the latest information shows progress has been made for the second phase. We hope Myanmar and Bangladesh will work together to consolidate the current positive momentum, strengthen bilateral communication and friendly negotiation, work for the early kickoff and smooth operation of the repatriation. As a friend of both Myanmar and Bangladesh, China is willing to continue with its constructive role for the proper settlement of the Rakhine State issue. Moreover, we hope the international community will create favorable conditions and environment and play a constructive role for the settlement of the issue.
Q: Yesterday Spanish media published an article about cyber attacks the Spanish Foreign Minister suffered in 2015. The report said it was made by a group of attackers from China. Can you confirm it and what is your comment?
A: China firmly opposes and cracks down hard on all forms of cyber attacks. The channel for communication on cyber security between China and Spain is unimpeded.
I would like to stress that cyber security is a global issue that calls for joint efforts from the international community on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit and through dialogue and cooperation. China opposes groundless accusations on the issue of cyber security.
Q: Japanese newspaper reported today that China plans to close the friendship bridge that links China to the DPRK in Dandong for ten days for repair. Can you confirm whether it is true? Is it designed in any way to put pressure on the DPRK government over its nuclear program?
A: As far as I learn, the China-DPRK friendship bridge will be closed temporarily in the near future for repair work on the bridge floor by the DPRK. It will be reopened after the repair is finished.
Follow-up: When did you close it and how long it will be closed for?
A: According to what I know, it is closed temporarily in the near future.
Q: Do you think the agreement between Bangladesh and Myanmar is a result of China's diplomacy and the three-phase solution proposed by Foreign Minister Wang Yi?
A: Days ago, Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid a visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar, during which he proposed a three-phase solution to the issue of the Rakhine Sate. I just briefed you on that and am not going to repeat it. I would like to stress that both Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to this solution. In the meantime, we have kept saying that the Rakhine State issue will be properly and fundamentally resolved only through the friendly negotiation between the two sides. As a friend to both the two sides, China is willing to play a constructive role to this end.
Q: Yesterday the Spokesperson made remarks on the content of Australia 's foreign policy white paper relating to the South China Sea issue. Do you have more comment on its content with regard to China's development and China-Australia relations?
A: Like what you said, my colleague remarked on the part concerning the South China Sea issue in that foreign policy white paper, so I won't restate that.
We have noted that the white paper said the sustained development of Chinese economy is an important opportunity to Australia. Australia is committed to a strong and constructive comprehensive strategic partnership with China and welcomes a bigger role by China in international and regional affairs. We welcome these remarks.
Both China and Australia are important countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Deepening China-Australia relations conforms to the fundamental interests of the two peoples and is conducive to peace, stability, development and prosperity of the region and beyond. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Australia. Taking this as an opportunity, we are willing to work with Australia to continuously enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, properly handle differences and sensitive issues, and promote the sustained, sound and steady development of our bilateral relations.
Q: According to reports, the United States and the Republic of Korea will hold an annual military drill on December 4th through 8th. What is your reaction?
A: As we said multiple times, the situation on the Korean Peninsula remains complex and severe. We hope all the relevant parties will exercise restraint and refrain from actions that may escalate the tension on the Peninsula. We hope various parties will jointly work to bring the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue back to the right track of peaceful settlement through dialogue and negotiation.


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Police: Man slain during robbery in Apopka; reward offered
Police search for shooter
APOPKA, Fla. – A $5,000 reward is being offered in the death of a man who was shot at his Apopka home during a robbery attempt.
Police said they were called to a home at 1031 South Hawthorne Avenue just after 10 p.m. Friday and found a man dead on the porch of his home.
Police said 31-year-old Eddie Vazquez was killed during an attempted robbery.
Vazquez's brother told Local 6 he and his brother were standing on the porch having a few beers when a man whom they did not know came up and tried to rob them.
Vazquez's brother told Local 6 reporter Kala Rama that when his brother resisted, the man shot him in the throat, killing him.
A second man was also involved in the incident.
One assailant was described as 5 feet 11 inches tall, in his late teens or early 20s with short hair and a slim build. He was wearing all black clothing, including baggy shorts and a hat.
The other was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, in his late teens or early 20s with a slim build. He was wearing a T-shirt, long pants and a black tank top.
The family had recently left Guatemala to find a better life in Orlando.
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School security discussed in St. Johns County
Meeting comes in wake of Newtown, Conn., massacre
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – St. Johns County school officials, the Sheriff's Office, St. Augustine police and firefighters met Tuesday to talk about school security and safety procedures in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy.
The session was similar to ones that take place every couple months, but this one was scheduled in the wake of the recent massacre.
"It's just sickening in the pit of your stomach. There's nothing that I hear as superintendent that hurts me more," St. Johns County Superintendent Joe Joyner said of the tragedy. "You feel responsible, and these are precious, precious children, and for us there's nothing that touches us deeper."
A Sheriff's Office spokesman said procedures and policies are constantly being re-evaluated.
"It makes me feel safe because you're knowing you're not alone," Joyner said of the relationship between departments and emergency officials within the county. "Schools and school buildings, they can be vulnerable, but knowing that we have some of the best professionals in the world that are right here that are a call away or a radio call away that are going to be there and help us through this, it's a huge comfort for our schools and for me personally."
After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office was one of the first to institute what's now called the "active shooter" response to such incidents. Deputies now do not wait for SWAT, as happened at Columbine, to respond. They are equipped with assault rifles and shotguns, and when called to a school, their goal is to make a quick entry to find the shooter.
"Many law enforcement officers could barely stand outside and follow their own policies. They wanted to go in and stop that," Sgt. Chuck Mulligan said. "It made more sense. We're here simply to stop the loss of life and to protect our public."
Emergency and school officials say that's exactly what they'll continue to do in hopes of preventing more devastation.
"We pride ourselves in protecting our kids, and Sheriff (David) Shoar has said numerous times that our other vulnerable aspect in our community is our seniors. Our kids and our seniors are our most vulnerable folks that we have in our communities, and it's our job to protect them in any way that we can."
All 34 schools in St. Johns County have had heightened police presence this last week before their holiday break.
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NYT Paywall Working Better Than People Expected, But That Doesn't Mean It's Working
from the treading-water deptOver the past few days, there's been a lot of talk about the NY Times "paywall" and whether or not it's "working." It was kicked off by a Bloomberg piece arguing that things were going amazingly well with the paywall, proving the doubters wrong. I've actually had a surprising number of people contact me about that article, asking for my take on it -- so let's make a couple of upfront statements and then explore it:
- First off, I agree that the performance of the NY Times paywall greatly exceeded my own expectations for it. I was quite harsh in predicting it would be a complete flop. I was wrong. It wasn't a flop. I explore why below.
- That said, I don't think that it's been nearly as big a "success" as some are making it out to be, and I still think that it wasn't the best play that the NYT could have or should have made -- and it's doubtful that anyone else following in the NYT's footsteps would find similar results. And that's a pretty big problem, because even if you think the NYT's paywall should be judged a "success" it doesn't change the fact that its revenue continues to drop (and not just its print revenue -- digital revenue is struggling too). Perhaps the paywall may have limited the revenue collapse, but it has done little to create a new and sustainable business model.
Why has the paywall done better than expected:
- They don't count links/earned media: This one is big. Since so much traffic comes via links these days, one of the major problems with paywalls is that they hurt this kind of traffic. For example, we try not to link to paywalled sites whenever possible -- but we will link to the NY Times, knowing that they let in any linked traffic, and it doesn't count against your "paywall meter." That at least meant that they weren't killing off important new sources of traffic, unlike many (if not most) other paywalls out there.
- The NY Times smartly figured out a way to get a ton of people signed up for free, to boost their early numbers. They did an ad deal with Lincoln, such that right as the paywall launched, anyone could get a free subscription by test driving a Lincoln. Who knows how many people actually took this up, but it bootstrapped the early numbers, and now everyone completely forgets about this (seriously, it's difficult to find any article that mentions this point any more).
- In the end, it appears that the NY Times is a paper that many people think is indispensable, and because they haven't bothered to look around and find out that you never actually have to pay, a lot of people have just paid up for the hell of it.
- As mentioned, overall results still suck. That's a pretty big deal. While the article claims that new subscriptions have finally started to outpace ad revenue declines, it seems unlikely that this will continue.
- Despite not blocking linked traffic, overall traffic hasn't been good. It's certainly not increasing.
- Proponents of paywalls insist that one key reason for a paywall is that it allows newspapers to charge advertisers more, since they better know their audience and can charge advertisers higher rates. It turns out that this is hogwash, and the NY Times has admitted that the paywall has had no impact on the rates they can charge for advertisements.
- And part of that may be because advertisers often tend to value scale and "mindshare" over targeting. Sure, they all claim to want premium audiences backed by data, but having dealt with way too many advertisers in my life, they always always always eventually go back to the scale question. And a paywall -- even a fake one like the NYT's -- tends to limit your ability to scale.
- And then there's my biggest issue in all of this. It's been entirely based on fooling users into thinking they need to pay, but not about adding more value for the users. As we've argued for years, there are plenty of opportunities to get users to pay, but it has to be about adding additional value beyond the content. It's why we've done things like providing additional scarce value for folks who choose to pay us. We don't block our content with a paywall, but we give people reasons to buy that provide them extra value (and feel free to do so, if you'd like).
There are ways forward, but newspapers have to get beyond thinking there are only two choices: advertising and paywalls. The NY Times paywall has been more successful than many of us expected, but that hardly means it qualifies as a true "success story."
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