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While you can find our experts' tips for the grand final, wooden spoon and Brownlow in the Footy 2014 liftout in today's paper, below we've asked a few more searching questions. Answer them yourself, write it down and stick it in your sock drawer for comparison and commiseration over drinks come Sunday, September 28.
1. Last minute of the grand final, who is the hero?
2. The year's tactical talking point ...
3. The year's reality check ...
4. The issue the AFL can't spin is?
5. Surprising headline ...
Greg Baum - Elder Statesman
1. The goal-line camera umpire.
2. Push in the back.
3. GWS makes no crowds or membership progress.
4. No matter how many equalisation measures it introduces, someone will finish last.
5. Jason Collins inspired me.
Will Brodie - Online Guru
1. Matthew Pavlich, the redemption story demands it.
2. The little league swarm around the ball.
3. Soccer World Cup.
4. Fan dissatisfaction at ticketing, corporatisation.
5. Eddie's vow of silence.
Rohan Connolly - Mr. Football
1. Hayden Ballantyne. Unlike Stephen Milne in 2010, this time the ball does bounce the way of everyone's favourite anti-hero.
2. Handball histrionics. Use of the ball by hand to outnumber kicks as teams attempt to penetrate improved defensive presses, sparking calls for legislation to restrict its use behind centre.
3. Fans continue to agitate about the extent to which football politics dominates discourse ahead of that about the actual game. I'm one of them.
4. Nothing. There is no topic the AFL cannot attempt to spin!
5. Malthouse: AFL media should be shown more respect.
Michael Gleeson - Marathon Man
1. Buddy.
2. Kick-handball ratio.
3. For key defenders when forwards are allowed to move them out the way.
4. People don't want to watch the expansion clubs.
5. Give me five more years: Roos.
Peter Hanlon - Country Connection
1. Hayden Ballantyne.
2. The rise of 'Out – Bloggs [rested]' on teams night.
3. Talking about footy day-in, day-out, all year is actually a bit dull.
4. Banging on about equalisation while there's still an inequitable draw is a joke.
5. No GWS players nominated for rising star award.
Jesse Hogan - Not the Melbourne Guy
1. Ryan Schoenmakers.
2. The increasing importance of the ruckman, despite the sub rule.
3. GWS to be better than most rival supporters assume.
4. The inconsistency around free-kicks paid – and not paid – for holding in marking contests.
5. Sheeds back: AFL boss approves Tasmania team.
Leaping Larry - Comic Relief
1. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that the AFL probably thinks the answer should be "The AFL".
2. Why the chowder-heads who walk amid the smokers outside the stadiums during game breaks coughing and waving their arms extravagantly don't just stay inside the stadiums.
3. Most people finally admit that with all the sponsored venue names and changes, they've basically lost track of which ground is which.
4. Variable ticket pricing. But it ought to be good, clean wholesome family fun to watch them try.
5. Fan located at night footy who enjoys mid-strength beer – shock!
Samantha Lane - Seven Deadly Ins
1. The Fyfanator (Nathan Fyfe) will make the difference.
2. Use of the words: 'protocols', 'governance', 'structures', 'integrity', 'integrity unit', 'due diligence', 'due process', 'due anything'. How much is too much?
3. See below.
4. Anti-doping related.
5. Read all the good ones in The Sunday Age.
Matthew Lloyd - Can Play
1. Hayden Ballantyne kicks the sealer after last year's GF blunders and jumps on Sandilands' shoulders to celebrate.
2. How each coach uses the cap on the interchange to ensure that their side runs out the game well.
3. Carlton Football Club missing the eight again but this time it won't get to play finals.
4. Why the runners' colours clashed with a team jumper.
5. GWS decides it's time to stop asking retired players to come out of retirement.
Matt Murnane - Kicking On
1. Lance Franklin launching a 55-metre bomb from the boundary line two minutes before the final siren.
2. Key forwards taking advantage of the new rules for contact in marking contests.
3. The St Kilda re-build.
4. Illicit drug use.
5. Essendon not being in the headlines.
Jake Nial - Columbo
1. Adam Goodes, in his last minute of league football and held together by tape, sprints and runs down Hayden Ballantyne, who coughs up a crucial ball.
2. Kick the bloody ball!
3. The umpires and Saints can change coaches, they can change cultures, they can change team rules, but they can't change the results.
4. Sleeve tattoos interfering with sponsorship
5. Dank gives Pep talk to ASADA
Jon Pierik - In and Under Type
1. Matthew Pavlich with a roost from 50.
2. The benefits of losing a stoppage but setting up to counter-attack from winning the next possession.
3. Cold Pies – a step back for long-term benefit.
4. Impact of concussions a growing concern.
5. NRL: Buddy a bonanza for AFL.
Emma Quayle - Drafted In
1. After a horrendous run with injury, Scott Gumbleton slots the winning goal from the pocket for Fremantle.
2. How hard it will soon become to stop Jeremy Cameron, Joe Daniher, Tom Boyd, Jon Patton and Tom Lynch – the next generation of superstar forwards.
3. Just how hard the GWS and Gold Coast concessions have made it for clubs like Melbourne and St Kilda to quickly rebuild.
4. That the free agency compensation pick system is working. There shouldn't be any.
5. Demetriou: actually, I might stick around.
Scott Spits - Joe Blogs
1. Matthew Pavlich. Just super reliable when it counts.
2. Re-emergence of powerful key forwards.
3. Radical improvement of expansion clubs.
4. Fans locked out of big games at the Docklands.
5. I prefer Manly to Bondi, says new Swan Buddy.
Andrew Tate - Sunday Too Far Away
1. Finally, Ross Lyon.
2. Finding space for Buddy on the SCG.
3. GWS v Carlton is not Australia v Spain.
4. Too many games that mean nothing.
5. Fans weigh facts, react reasonably.
Caroline Wilson - Footy's First Lady
1. Hayden Ballantyne.
2. The swingmen. Can backs be trusted to kick goals up forward?
3. Corporate sponsorship crisis as big companies shed more jobs.
4. Greater Western Sydney's struggles.
5. Buddy tells: My arthritic knee.


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East Lyme — Town officials helped to relocate as many as 30 tenants of The Elms Hotel who were displaced Friday following a power loss and a ruling by the town's fire marshal that the century-old building was unfit for occupancy.
East Lyme First Selectman Paul Formica said he joined police, building officials and personnel from the fire marshal's office at the Ocean Avenue building when they were alerted power had been shut off.
Formica said there are about 20 rooms in the building, used by some as a permanent residence. Those without vehicles were shuttled to the Niantic Motel, where they have taken up temporary residence. The owner of The Elms, Jude Cleary, was among the occupants forced to move out, Formica said.
Along with the power loss, Formica said the fire marshal has identified code violations that will need to be addressed before the business is reopened. The building has been in disrepair for several years.
The hotel was boarded up by the end of the day, and Formica said police will provide security throughout the weekend and also inform any occupants arriving home about what had happened.
"It's simply not fit in its present condition for people to rent. The town has a responsibility when a place like this is deemed unfit," Formica said. "We had an inclination this was coming. We secured the rooms in the event it happened."
In addition to further conversations with the landlord, Formica said he intends to stay in contact with any social service agencies that may be needed for additional support of the occupants.
Cleary could not be reached for comment.

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A Canberra developer and the construction union have stepped in to help workers left jobless by the collapse of Douglas Joinery.
Douglas Quality Joinery ceased trading this week after its administrator deemed it impossible to save.
The company is now set to be liquidated, leaving up to 40 workers without jobs, and many homeowners and businesses with half-finished work.
However, the Englobo Group, which is developing the Aurora Apartments in Kingston, said on Tuesday it would offer jobs to the 10 Douglas workers employed at its site, either as direct contractors or through other firms.
Englobo director Terry Shaw said the company would also support Douglas's subcontractors .
''We'll do what we can. It's only small, but it's something,'' he said.
''It will give them another four to five weeks' worth of wages and get them through to Christmas.''
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union said it would help find job for its members at the collapsed joinery and support their families over the holiday period.
However, only a small number of the company's workers are believed to be union members.
The union's ACT secretary, Dean Hall, said he met the owner and the receivers on Tuesday to try to secure his members' entitlements.
''The CMFEU will do what we can to support the workers and their families, and we'll do everything we can to get our members jobs.''
Mr Hall said he sympathised with the other workers and their families, and the union was ready to offer them advice.
''It's a terrible time to lose your job. However, the best insurance policy they can have to protect their rights and entitlements would be to be members of the union.''
Accounting firm RSM Bird Cameron took control of the joinery late last week.
The administrator, Frank Lo Pilato, said delays and cost blow-outs within the company - relating to three large contracts at the Aurora Apartments, the Bellerive Apartments and Questacon - contributed to the collapse.
However, Douglas's failure was unrelated to any problems with those projects themselves.


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January 25, 2013
Jennifer Mehigan
BOSTON —Mayor Thomas Menino has instructed Boston Inspectional Services to operate 24 hours a day until this cold spell abates."We've been throughout Roxbury, Dorchester, Hyde Park," the ISD's Lisa Timberlake told NewsCenter 5.
"In this bitter cold, the furnaces are working double-time or overtime."
And many of the heating systems can break down under that duress. Timberlake was at one Roxbury home that's had limited heat since November.
The inspector, after visiting the unit, called on the landlord to fix the problem, or be taken to court.
Yes, it's so cold outside, Kerivan Oil in Needham couldn't pump the oil into delivery trucks Thursday -- their valves had frozen.
They had to use space heaters and insulation to thaw that equipment, or their customers couldn't get oil to heat their homes.
Boston EMS is also on high alert for cold-related issues. They've called on extra staff for all shifts, and activated additional ambulances, as well.
"We've asked our crews between calls to basically patrol around the district, rather than return to quarters," said Chief Jim Hooley.
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BRIAN Jensen is not too proud to admit he is leaving Bury with a mixture of disappointment and regret – but no hard feelings.
The 38-year-old stopper became a cult figure in his one and only season at the JD Stadium, winning his first ever player of the season awards – one voted for by the fans and the other from the Bury Times.
But those awards, dished out at the club's end of season bash last Thursday, came just 24 hours after the club announced he would not be offered a new contract, despite keeping 16 clean sheets in 39 games since arriving in August.
Rumours immediately circulated his release was down to a falling out with manager David Flitcroft, stemming from the goalkeeper's controversial substitution at half time at Southend, after which the Bury boss criticised his route one distribution.
Jensen was eager to quash talk of a row, saying his departure was merely down to a difference in styles.
"I asked him if he thought I had done all right when it comes to that philosophy of playing out from the back and he said I had," said the former Burnley and West Brom keeper.
"It's just about how he wants to play the football here next season and he's probably got something lined up already.
"So, on that note, you know there's no grudge whatsoever.
"We had a good chat about it, so whoever says this has happened because me and the gaffer had a row is complete and utter rubbish.
"It couldn't be further from the truth."
More than 1,100 Bury fans made the trip to Morecambe on Saturday to give their hero the send off he deserved. And Jensen said his reception and standing ovation after the game left him speechless.
He now hopes to continue his career in league football elsewhere, but admits regret at not following up his desire to win promotion with Bury.
"It's very emotional," he said.
"Obviously, I would have like to have stayed here for another season but that's not to be, that's the way football is.
"I'm really, really happy with the awards, especially the fans player-of-the-season award.
"It means a lot for me because for them to say they like what they have seen – it proves that I've actually done all right.
"But I've said it all the way through that the main thing for me was to prove I can still be involved in football and I'm not ready to pack it in.
"I'm really happy with my own personal form over the season, but it's the only club I have been to where I haven't had a promotion.
"I thought, especially with the new back four we had with Pablo Mills and Jim McNulty in front of me, that we started to build a connection and it started to work for us.
"It would have been nice to start fresh – have a good pre-season and just see where we could take it.
"So the disappointing thing is that we were never given a chance to do even better next year because obviously I won't be there."


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Android phonemakers have essentially four possible routes to try to avoid a "doomsday" scenario
Thus far Apple, Inc. (
) has seen its patents narrowed or invalidated in U.S. court. At best it's cobbled together a handful of UI patents like gallery page flipping, kinetic scrolling,
, and a
bounce back animation
. Together, these patents could make Android a bit less pleasant, but it would be far from "game over" as Google Inc. (
) would be free to continue sales and continue to attack Apple with retaliatory litigation in hopes of
reaching a licensing truce
, while
pursuing workarounds
I. Monopoly is Almost in Apple's Grasp
But Apple has one strong hope of achieving its ultimate objective -- killing its top competitor and granting itself control over the U.S. smartphone market. That patent is
U.S. Patent No. 7,479,949
, Apple's
infamous "multi-touch patent"
The patent claims invention not of a particular narrow, precisely defined algorithm, but rather on an abstract description of
algorithms relating to the use of multi-touch displays. Basically, the patent covers how when your fingers are moving in semi-linear directions, the idea of removing the wobble in order to get a usable gesture.
Virtually every Android device sold today uses multi-touch. Without a method of allowing for accurate touch these devices would be rendered useless. And that's precisely what Apple is hoping for.
Apple scored a demoralizing victory over Android. [Image Source: ArsTechnica]
After scoring an early victory in January on the patent, Apple scored another win in a more in-depth judicial analysis of the claims in Apple's patent, and Google subsidiary/Android phonemaker Motorola Mobility's (the named defendant) complaints about the patent.
The presiding Chicago, Illinois
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
judge was
Judge Richard Posner
, a respected legal veteran and
University of Chicago
law instructor. In a March 29 ruling, he defended Apple's interpretation of the claims language in the patent as mostly valid and chastised Motorola Mobility's lawyers for providing invalid and repetitive arguments.
Responding to Motorola Mobility's insistence that the patent should only be valid for the 27 degree contact angle (error tolerance) discussed in the example implementation, he
, "I reject Motorola's argument (this is the third time they've made it and the third time I reject it) that the structure must be limited to the 27-degree angle used as an example by the specification."
The decision clears the way for a potential ban on all Motorola Android smartphone sales on infringement grounds.
II. Ubiquitous Patent Won't Expire Until 2028
Apple's attorneys cheer the news, writing, "[H]aving identified the problems associated with imprecise finger gestures, solved them, and successfully incorporated them into a commercial product, Apple should be entitled to the fruits of its innovation via broad patent protection, and the public is benefited by the disclosure of Apple's invention."
The patent will last through 2028, so by "public is benefited" Apple means that it hopes that the public will be "benefited" by a complete ban on Android for over a decade and a half.
Apple's lawyers hope to "benefit" the public with an Android ban until 2028.
[Image Source: Carlos Rull]
Such an event would seem astounding, but is not impossible considering the following:
Without multi-touch you might as well not sell a handset in the current market.
Without gesture detection heuristic multi-touch would be impossible to implement effectively
The validation of Apple's claims language clears the way for a preliminary injunction on all Motorola multi-touch handsets. Bans on Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
) and HTC Corp. (
) would likely soon follow.
Apple has not indicated it is willing to license this patent.
This latest is outcome is largely a byproduct of a
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
that allows overly ambiguous nebulous software descriptions to be patented and then a judicial system which, in turn, allows them to be enforced with destructive, anti-competitive consequences.
But this incident is the most eye-popping example yet of the dangers of the current American intellectual property system as it has a strong possibility of radically transforming a vast market whose devices U.S. consumers use every day.
III. How Did We Get Here?
The wily Cupertino giant, the world's most profitable electronics company began its bid in early 2005. At the time Apple was enjoying a renaissance with its best-selling iPod, but it was curious if customers would buy a reimagined Apple Newton in a new ultra-slim form factor. In order to differentiate its product, Apple bought FingerWorks, a research and development company specializing in multi-touch gestures.
At that point Apple began patenting multi-touch implementation details at a frantic pace. The only remaining question was what kind of hardware to pair the algorithms with.
The answer came in 2006 when a handful of companies -- mostly Taiwanese display startups -- displayed capacitive multi-touch displays at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and other trade shows. Apple moved quickly to enter agreements to snatch up all the supply on the new displays.
Apple's crafty moves positioned it to potentially score its biggest anti-competitive win yet.
[Image Source: David Paul Morris/Getty Images]
This allowed it to enjoy a virtually untouched monopoly on multi-touch devices a year later, when its iPhone launched. While Apple's invention came largely second-hand via FingerWorks and the Taiwanese manufacturers, it appeared that Apple had "invented" multi-touch.
IV. Android Phonemakers Have Four Potential Routes to Avoid a Complete Ban
Now the clever strategy that ensured its risky smartphone project instant commercial acclaim and success could pay a second dividend in the form of an anti-competitive gift from the U.S. judicial system.
If Apple does score a complete sales ban, it has complete control over whether it opts to allow licensing at premium rates, or simply to allow Android U.S. sales to die. Either way Android phonemakers' only recourse would be to win a narrowing of the patent in similar Samsung/HTC cases, take the case to a higher federal appeals court in an effort to override Judge Posner's technical analysis, try to find enough prior art to convince the USPTO to invalidate the broad patent, or else win an equally damaging ruling against Apple, forcing licensing.
Is this game over for Android? Don't count Google and its allies out yet, they have several viable options to fight a complete sales ban. [Image Source: The Dark Furie]
If Google,
et al.
cannot find a way to accomplish one of those four reversal routes, Android is essentially soon to be dead in the U.S., barring some unforeseen circumstance. And if Android sales vanish in the U.S., the platform's global prospects are in jeopardy as well.
It sounds unbelievable, but Apple's ace could spell the virtual end of Android, currently the smartphone market's market share leader. Of course, on the flip side of the Android coalition has a lot of fight left in it and will likely look to exhaust each of the above options to avoid a radical market changing event in the U.S.
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Beth Vogel, Quinci Scherber, Margaret Antonio, and Tori Backstrom at Yale University.
by Tori Backstrom New Haven, Connecticut -- Four seniors
from Immaculate Conception Academy got quite a physics lesson last
month, and the team was rewarded for their hard work
placing third in one of the events. On
Saturday, October 15, 2011, the high school students from Wakefield,
RI attended the Physics Olympics at Yale University in
New Haven, Connecticut. Physics students and teachers of Yale plan
this event to help high school students learn more about
and enjoy physics. Participants performed five simple experiments,
35-minutes in length, including constructing duct tape boats, finding the
frequency of tuning forks, and connecting cities on a map.
"The Yale students and teachers definitely achieved their
objective, because now each of us is excited for what
is to come in physics class," said team member Beth
Vogel. "We are just beginning our class in
The ICA team works on solving a physics puzzle.
physics this year, and we were told we did not
need specific knowledge in physics to participate," she said. "But
it certainly would have helped. We were amazed at some
of the physics terms the other kids used! It sounded
like they were speaking another language. By the end of
the day our brains hurt a little, but it was
worth it. It was definitely a surprise for us to
get 3rd place in the 'On da Road' event." The Immaculate Conception team was impressed to see so many
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I am looking for some advice in which direction I should head. I am experienced in HTML and CSS, Joomla and Wordpress, and have some experience in PHP.
Basically I want to create a site where users can register and maintain a profile with an avatar. A registered user can then create a team with it's own custom profile and avatar. Other registered users can then join these teams, thus being shown on the team's profile page. I will want some other features like a forum (integrated with the site's database), a calendar of events, etc.
Do you think I there is existing open source software that will enable me to do this? I'm currently messing with Joomla and Community Builder but it kind of feels like a hack job. I'm currently going to school for programming and will be taking classes on PHP and SQL, so perhaps I should just start from scratch? It would at least be a great learning experience.
Yes, you can use dolphin. You can get more details at http://www.dolphinpros.com
I looked at dolphin, but I wasn't sure. You think it will allow users to register team profiles pretty simply, and other users join those teams? Would be nice to also have different categories of teams. Thanks
Actually it allows couple profiles. But you can create a group and add more people there. Not sure this is what you are looking for.
I would need 50+ teams of 5-10 users as well as hundreds of users. Are you saying dolphin will only allow a couple of teams?
No. I meant you can use groups feature in it to add more people to it.
I thought Dolphin was great... until I started trying to use it, I'm getting all kinds of errors. I spent around 12 hours modifying a template until my site looked perfect, so it's a shame if I can't get it work My site was working perfect and I just tried to install a Photo module, which gave me an error, and now just trying to go to my site gives me error: Fatal error: Call to a member function getClassPrefix() on a non-object in /home/technoto/public_html/esa/templates/base/scripts/BxBaseSearchResultSharedMedia.php on line 134
I am also looking at Joomla Community Builder, Wordpress Buddypress, Elgg, Jcow, Oxwall, Beatz, and Etano. Anyone have any experience as to which might easily allow members to register, and create a team with a profiles which other members can join? Thanks.
Bump Any experience with social networks? I basically want gamers to be able to create clans with profile pages, and other gamers can join. So I would have groups of games with profile pages listing groups of clans with profile pages listing groups of players.


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Cook udon according to package directions, rinse, drain and set aside. Heat sesame oil in a skillet. Sauté garlic, mushrooms, carrots, cabbage and half the green onions about 5 minutes. Reserve half the green onions for garnish. Add pickled ginger, all of the ginger juice and cooked udon. Heat thoroughly. Serve and garnish with crumbled nori and remaining green onions.
Per serving - 240 calories, 3 gram fat (11% calories from fat), 10 gram protein, 44 gram carbohydrate, 6 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 344 milligram sodium


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Five Live Music Musts: March 28th 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
As Women's History Month comes to a close, lady rockers dominate our picks for the best in area music this week. Read on for GoLocal's 5 Live Music Musts …
Sara Borges at Narrows
Tonight at The Narrows Center, it's a Sarah Borges record release event. The Taunton, MA songstress recently released Radio Sweetheart, produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. Sarah's shows are high energy; put on your dancing shoes and expect a kick-ass Rock and Blues show. She shares the bill with Boston-based alt-country rockers Girls, Guns and Glory. The show starts at 8PM Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 day of show.
Turkuaz – Two Nights at The Spot
The Spot in Providence plays host to Turkuaz, a "powerfunk" band from Brooklyn, NY for two nights beginning tomorrow March 29. The band is comprised of a 9 piece ensemble of hipsters, who are releasing a new album, Future 86, next week. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door and $22 for both nights! The Alan Evans Playon open both nights, Sat at 7:30PM, Sun at 6PM.
Rory Block at Sandywoods
Don't miss one of the world's foremost practitioners of the Delta Blues on Sunday as Rory Block visits Sandywoods. You'll get a lesson in the history of the Blues while you marvel at her exquisite finger-style guitar work. She'll be at Sandywoods Sunday March 30, at 7PM. Guitarist Marjorie Thompson opens at 7PM. Tickets are $20 in advance, $22 at the door.
Arc Iris at Columbus Theatre
Providence based indie goddess Jocie Adams leads Arc Iris, a band that's receiving major national buzz. The New York Times is currently streaming their new album here - the band's eclectic blend of musical genres, from alt-country to jazz, will be evident on Tuesday April 1 at the Columbus Theatre. The Sugar Honey Iced Tea along with Chris Daltry and friends open at 8PM. Tickets for the record release event are $10 in advance, $12 day of show.
Heart at PPAC
Finally, don't miss Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart, who will be in town next Wednesday April 2 performing at PPAC. In the male dominated world of Rock and Roll, the Wilson sisters had a huge influence in the late 70s and 80s, inspiring many young ladies to pick up the guitar. The show starts at 7:30 – a few tickets remain starting at $50.
Related Slideshow: 13 Biggest Music Stories in RI in 2013
13. Macauley + Carlton
Local music legend John Macauley of Deer Tick, and world renowned singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton came to Providence in January to headline a show to benefit The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence.
Here is music critic Rob Duguay's review of the show:
This past Saturday at the upstairs stage of The Columbus Theatre on Broadway in the heart of the West End of Providence, a magnificent display of music took place to benefit The Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence. Deer Tick's John McCauley & Ian O'Neil, Vanessa Carlton, Smoota and Caroline Hecht were on a star-studded bill for an experience that was guaranteed to be a memorable one. It's always great when talented people come together for a worthy cause, and in this day and age this was needed more than ever. Read More
12. Carolina Choc Drops
Bringing an eclectic mixture of Piedmont blues, country, ragtime jazz, and traditional folk, the Carolina Chocolate Drops came into town to headline a Sunday night show at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in April.
GoLocal Music Critic was there for the show, and he claimed this to be one of the best shows he attended in 2013:
Class was in session Sunday night at Lupo's as theCarolina Chocolate Drops provided a crash course in traditional African American music. Their style, which fuses Piedmont Blues, jug band country, ragtime jazz and traditional folk, delighted the crowd. Sounding straight out of a juke joint in Mississippi, (or North Carolina, where the band hails from), their music is infectious. Read More
11. Artistic Explosion
Featuring some of the best local acts from all different genres, GoLocal music critic Rob Duguay organized the first annual Artistic Explosion Music Festival, a week-long multi-venue show to raise money for Girls Rock! and the Rhode Island Music Educators Association.
By all counts, the event was a tremendous success.
10. 24 Hour Music Project
For the second straight year, Kim "Giggles" Madden put together Providence's 24 Hour Music Project benefit. This year, all proceeds from the event and concert went to benefit music education in Rhode Island's public schools.
Rob Duguay was on hand for the CD release party in October:
One of the most inspiring things I've encountered in Providence is the 24 Hour Music Project. Started by Kim "Giggles" Madden last year, a star-studded compilation album of the Creative Capital's finest musicians benefits victims of domestic violence. This time around, another album was made to benefit music education in public schools, another noble cause with an ensemble cast of local musical talents. On Sunday at The Spot, the release of the second 24 Hour Music Project album was celebrated with an amazing show that had Dan Dodd, Dylan Sevey & The Gentlemen, Wake and Baker, P. Lowe, Galactic Alliance and Resin ED jammin' on two stages. There's no better way to spend your Sunday than supporting a great cause, and the Spot was the prime destination to do just that. Read More
9. Colexico at The Met
Tuscon Arizona's Colexico, according to GoLocal music critic Ken Abrams, sounds like "a Tex-Mex meal - you don't always know exactly what's in it, but it tastes delicious."
Well, Colexico paid a visit to the Ocean State in June, and Abrams was in the crowd for the festivities.
8. Buddy Guy
Since Park Theatre massive renovation and reopening, the Cranston venue has become a great spot for live music in Rhode Island, and have drawn some very impressive names.
In October, blues legend Buddy Guy stopped by, and music critic Ken Abrams was there:
Last Friday night at the Park Theatre, the nation's leading ambassador of the Blues made a triumphant stop in Rhode Island. For the second consecutive year, Buddy Guy filled the Park to its 1006-seat capacity, a rare feat for a performer labeled a "Blues" artist. Before the night ended, it was clear why – he is one of the finest performers on tour today. Read More
7. The Temptaions
Legendary Detroit Motown band, the Temptations stopped by Cranston's Park Theatre in December, bringing with them their classics.
Music critic Ken Abrams was front and center for this once-in-a-lifetime R&B experience:
A warm welcome greeted The Temptations Sunday night in Cranston as the Park Theatre hosted a sold out show by the legendary Detroit band. The award winning R&B group thrilled those in attendance with classic hits along with some new songs. Read More
6. Chris Cornell
Legendary Seattle grunge rocker Chris Cornell is known for rocking hard with Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Audioslave, and Pearl Jam; but when he came into Providence in November, he left the wires behind for an acoustic show on the newly-renovated stage at The Vets:
Normally, one would think of Chris Cornell as the vocalist who can peel the paint off walls with Seattle legends Soundgarden, but recently he's been doing a solo acoustic tour that's been getting a lot of attention. This past Tuesday he made a stop at The Veterans Memorial Auditorium for an experience that exuded soothing songs that hit straight to the heart. Bhi Bhiman opened things up as well, it was going to a memorable evening. Chris Cornell at his genuine best, what more could you ask for? Read More
5. B.B. King
What could be better than a warm summer night in Newport? How about when you are there to see THE name in Blues, BB King? Well, GoLocal Music criticRob Duguay was lucky enough to be in attendance for this show at the Newport Yachting Center in July:
As a live music fanatic, when I hear that a legend is coming through The Ocean State it's a no-brainer that I have to come check it out. When it's a bluesman like B.B. King performing, saying its a no-brainer is a vast understatement, it's more like a spiritual expedition. The King Of The Blues headlined a fantastic night at The Newport Yachting Center as part of The Sunset Music Series with Providence rocksteady soul group Boo City opening up the show, you knew it was going to be one of the top shows of the summer. The whole time I was here I had to remind myself that one of my favorite musicians of all time in B.B. King as well as pinch myself a few times. The guy is pushing 90 and still tours like he was in his mid-20s and still can strum Lucille better than anybody else, Newport was definitely the hotspot for a once in a lifetime chance to see a musician who will go down as one of the greatest ever. Read More
4. Bob Dylan at URI
Legendary singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan passed through the Ocean State in April, making a stop at URI's Ryan Center. GoLocal music critic Ken Abrams made the trek down to South County for the show:
Bob Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" rolled into the Ryan Center on Monday night. The band is currently on a college campus swing, and featured a new addition, RI's own Duke Robillard on lead guitar. Read More
3. Sir Elton John
A Dunkin Donuts Center crowed was graced by the presence of music royalty in November when Elton John came into Providence for an unforgettable 28-song performance:
Elton John made a triumphant return to Providence Saturday night, making the Dunkin Donuts Center the second stop on his Diving Board Tour. Expectations were high for the near capacity crowd and Sir Elton did not disappoint. He covered a number of hits in his 28 song set, including a full album side from "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." Read More
2. The Who
Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend; the remaining members of one of the most highly-celebrated rock and roll supergroup of all-time, the Who, finished up the US leg of their World Tour at the Dunkin Donuts Center in February:
On Tuesday at The Dunkin' Donuts Center in downtown Providence, rock & roll legends The Who rocked the joint for the last show of the United States leg of The Quadrophenia and More Tour that has been sweeping the globe since last year. Opening the night were Los Angeles' rock & roll souls Vintage Trouble and it was bound to be one of the memorable shows in Providence's music history. There are rock bands and then there's The Who, it was very clear that the best way to enjoy the first half of your week was to be at The Dunk on Tuesday. Read More
1. Newport Festivals
Summer in Newport -- shopping, beaches, sailing, dining, and LIVE MUSIC. Aquidneck Island comes alive when the weather warms up, and once you get beyond Thames Street, music festivals dominate the scene. In 2013, GoLocal' music critics were on hand for three great music festivals in Newport:
Sunset Music Series- Featuring Chris Isaak and The Doobie Brothers
Celtic Rock Festival- Headlined by the Dropkick Murphy's
Newport Folk Festival- Featuring Beck, John Macauley, and the Avett Brothers
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Here is one quick, easy and dynamic way to install or load your favorite third-party plug-ins during launch of Photoshop Elements (PSE) Editor with a keyboard shortcut key.
- Quit Photoshop Elements Editor if already launched.
- Double-click on desktop icon for Adobe Photoshop Elements which launches the Welcome Screen.
- Press Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift, and in the Welcome Screen click Edit (or Editor for older versions). Keep it pressed until you see the below window (you might have to click on blue screen as sometimes it appears behind welcome screen)
- Navigate to desired third-party or any other plugin file location. Select and click Ok.
- Now Photoshop Elements Editor will be launched with your plug-in loaded with app.
How to confirm if plug-in is loaded or not:
In PSE Editor navigate to Edit->Preferences->Plug-ins window (Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor->Preferences on Mac) and your plug-in location should be present there as seen below (for one of the plug-ins I loaded):


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Jordin Sparks is such a cutie!! Love this American Idol chick!
Here she is (via justjared.com) on a Miami Beach boardwalk. Guess, she was playing an impromptu concert for the paparazzi. Sweet girl.
Love her look. She is pulling off the 'very comfy casual' look. I do wish the boots were black, but that's OK. It still works.
Looks like the plaid shirt isn't going anywhere for a while. Yesterday, at my in-laws Superbowl party there were at least 10 people wearing them.
Do love Jordin's outfit?


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By PA Independent Staff
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania State Capitol is officially decked out for the holidays, with Christmas trees and holiday wreaths adorning the building inside of out.
But the merry end-of-the-year cheer is a reminder that Pennsylvania's next legislative session is only a few weeks away.
That means discussions are beginning to turn to what issues are getting teed up for next year. That could be some big-ticket topics, like transportation funding and liquor privatization, while the state's ever-growing pension crisis continues to strap the state and municipal budgets alike.
But issues linger that lawmakers have to address before the New Year begins. That includes the state's decision on whether to create a health insurance exchange as it preps for the annual budget.
Corbett reflects on past two years, future plans
Gov. Tom Corbett met with reporters on Thursday, conducting rare small-group, sit-down interviews in his office.
PA Independent was present for the third of these sessions.
Nearly halfway through his first term as Pennsylvania's governor, Corbett lauds the work the state has done on job creation and keeping his campaign promise of no tax increases. Corbett said the state has gained more than 105,000 private-sector jobs since he took office.
Goals for the future are lofty. Corbett said a transportation funding plan will be announced before the budget, and he's also pushing for a liquor privatization plan.
Regardless of what plans his administration may come up with, it all comes down the Legislature. And Corbett acknowledges that could mean difficulties.
"Here I can chart a course, but I have 253 people that are going to influence that course. And they aren't necessarily all the time in agreement with me," Corbett said.
More immediately, Pennsylvania must decide if it will run a health-insurance exchange required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or defer the responsibility to the federal government. Budget talks for next year are also under way, and Corbett said that revenues, once again, will be tight.
Scranton resident says high personnel costs amount to theft
In one of Pennsylvania's most financially troubled cities, nearly every tax dollar taken from the pockets of city residents in 2013 will be headed directly to the wallets of past and present city employees.
Meanwhile, taxpayers supporting vital city services face a tax hike of 12 percent, the specter of higher taxes on the horizon and high levels of borrowing by the city as it tries to make ends meet, even as the budget crunch curtails city services.
The city's 2013 budget proposal calls for "an aggressive approach to current revenues," but one observer is calling it something else — theft.
"It's going straight into the pockets of city employees," said Gary Lewis, a Scranton resident and financial expert who writes a blog about the city's finances."To me, that's the very definition of theft. You are forcibly taking money from me in order to turn around and hand it over to someone else."
Take a look at the numbers. Scranton expects about $54.8 million in tax revenue during 2013, while employee compensation costs are budgeted to consume more than $51.5 million.
Throw in another $10 million in mandatory debt-service payments and the city is spending every single tax dollar on its employees or its credit cards.
Report calls for new child-protection laws
The new legislation session could bring new laws regarding child protection in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
The state's Task Force on Child Protection released a much-awaited report on Tuesday, recommending essentially a re-write of the Child Protective Services Law. That includes redefining what behavior constitutes child abuse, as well as expanding who is required to report suspected child abuse under the law.
Another recommendation is barring schools from entering into confidentiality agreements with educators accused of abuse.
Task force chairman, Bucks County District Attorney David Heckler, said in a statement the report recommends "a transformation" in how the state handles reports of child abuse and the way those crimes are treated.
But Heckler said many of the issues will require additional public hearings before changes are enacted.
"Strengthening these laws must be done as soon as possible, but we should recognize that it cannot be done overnight," Heckler said.
Report tees up property tax reform once again
Legislative efforts for Pennsylvania property-tax reform next session may build upon past proposals.
Or, the efforts might address some of the biggest cost drivers for local property tax increases.
It all depends on whether lawmakers take cues from a new report , or whether they let it collect dust.
On Thursday, 13 lawmakers on the Select Committee on Property Tax Reform voted to accept its draft report with 13 recommendations, as well as analysis of past property tax proposals.
Some recommendations include:
- Amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to allow home and farm exemption of up to 100 percent of the property value at the discretion of local jurisdictions;
- Examining the exact cost of charter and cyber charter schools, which are funded by school districts;
- Amend the tools taxing jurisdictions have for recouping tax debts;
- Allow taxing jurisdictions more diversified options for revenue-neutral tax shifts.
Last session saw certain reform efforts fail, such as attempts to swap property taxes with other tax increases or provide more local control.
Pennsylvania hopes to cash in on 'Cyber Monday'
Cyber Monday may have brought shoppers online to grab great deals, but it's a help to Pennsylvania's revenues, too.
Beginning this year, Pennsylvania toughened enforcement of a long-standing law requiring businesses with a physical presence in the state to collect sales taxes from online purchases.
That means their customers are going to be charged that 6 percent in extra taxes when they shop online. The businesses will collect and send the tax revenue to the state.
The Department of Revenue estimates Pennsylvania misses out on $225 million in unpaid sales taxes each year. With the new enforcement measures, they hope to collect about $50 million of that total, said Secretary of Revenue Dan Meuser.
Negotiations continue between state colleges, faculty union
This week, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties announced it would put off any consideration of a strike until the spring semester. APSCUF's announcement comes shortly after the membership voted in favor of a strike authorization, which would allow negotiators to call a strike if deemed necessary.
Officials said they do not want to interrupt students' education with the possibility of a strike looming overhead.
Instead, they'll continue to bargain with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education throughout December. Both sides say they want to reach a "fair" contract, after nearly two years of disagreements.
Points of conflict between the parties include pay rates for temporary faculty members, health benefits and compensation for online courses.
Now, union negotiators will bring another contract proposal to the state in another round of meetings. The next is scheduled for Dec. 11.
Contact Eric Boehm at [email protected] and Melissa Daniels at [email protected], or follow on Twitter at @PAIndependent.


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Celeb Kids: The Littlest Fashionistas
Chanel. Gucci. The stars' kids get only the best!
-Jane Farrell
Luxe Life
After her dad picks her up from soccer practice, what little girl doesn't want to make a stop at Chanel? Mark Wahlberg, on daddy duty, takes Ella, 7, shopping at the couture store in Beverly Hills. We don't know whether Wahlberg bought something for himself or his wife, model Rhea Durham, but what's for sure is that Ella got a little bag of her own. And at Chanel, no matter how little it is, it's always spectacular. (celebritybabyscoop)
J.Lo's twin stars
Sometimes, fashion's more than just frivolous. Jennifer Lopez agreed to star in a Gucci children's fashion campaign with Max and Emme, her two-year-old twins with husband Marc Anthony, in return for donations to UNICEF and her own nonprofit group, the Maribel Foundation. Maribel is working with Children's Hospital Los Angeles to bring a system called Telemedicine to underserved people around the world. Through the system, patients and doctors can talk with each other; diagnoses can be made; and doctors in the U.S. can work with physicians in dozens of countries. When you know that, the clothes look even better. Take a look at the video (below) to see behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot, as well as Lopez talking about UNICEF and Maribel. (facebook.com/Gucci)


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Quick Links
New to SYSA?
Welcome Parents!
We have put together information about our club and our programs. As a new parent to SYSA, if you have questions about how our club runs, this page will try to address any general questions you may have. If you don't find the answer you are looking for here, review our pages or contact our Administrative Director, Sandy Moore, at firstname.lastname@example.com. She will more than happy to direct you to the right person to answer your question.
Club Organization
Sudbury Youth Soccer (SYSA) is run mainly by the parents of our players, although anyone can volunteer. We rely heavily on our parents to take on leadership roles including coaches, assistant coaches, managers, age group coordinators, as well as other roles within the club. Parents may offer to volunteer when registering players by clicking on the volunteer button. Our volunteers work together to execute our club's mission of providing quality soccer to boys and girls in the town of Sudbury, and children who attend the Sudbury Public Schools. To reach a member of our board click here
In the Fall and Spring seasons, SYSA programs comprise of; In Town (IT), BAYS (travel), and the Academy Squad. We also offer our Academy Skills Program in the Fall, Spring and Winter seasons for U8 through U14 players. During the Winter, we also offer a Futsal League for players from U9-U14 at the FieldHouse. More information about of programs can be found here. Dates and times for our current season can be found here.
General information is listed below about practices and uniforms.
For our BAYS and IT programs, practices are usually conducted mid-week during the season. Our IT and U8 players practice once per week, and BAYS' teams practice twice per week. One practice is a group practice set by our Technical Director and the second is set by individula coaches about two weeks prior to the season opening and take place at various fields throughout Sudbury.
SYSA supplies uniforms for all U6-U8 IT and U9/U10 IT players. BAYS and Academy Squad players are required to wear matching uniforms which include an Under Armour red jersey, navy shorts and navy socks. These may be purchased at Brines' Sporting Goods on RT20 in Sudbury.
If you are ready to enroll your child you can click here to enter our Registration Page.


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Man robbed of wallet in southwest Gainesville
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 8:20 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 11:28 a.m.
An armed robbery occurred Tuesday night in southwest Gainesville when a man with a handgun demanded money from another man walking on a street, police reported.
The incident occurred about 10:38 p.m. at 300 SW 10th St., Gainesville Police Department Lt. Mike Schibuola said. The victim was walking when the culprit came up to him with a gun and demanded money. The victim gave him his wallet, and the culprit fled. No one was hurt.
The culprit was described as white with a thin build and a pale complexion. He was 20 to 26 years old, 5-feet-10-inches to 6 feet tall and wore a black hooded sweatshirt and jeans.
No arrests had been made by Wednesday afternoon.
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JMX-Console ??
JMX(Java Managed Extensions) is a Java Technology which provides a way to manage running applications via various utilities and tools.
The running services are registered as mbeans and can be accessed/controlled remotely via JMX-Console.
LiveCycle currently supports 3 App Servers namely, JBoss, Weblogic and Webspehere.
While Weblogic and Websphere don't provide a UI to connect to JMX managed bean instances,
Jboss provides a management console called JMX-Console to do the same.
In order to manage beans for Weblogic and Websphere,
Java provides a generic Utility called JConsole which can be connected to any running Application Server and relevant tasks can be performed.
Why JMX-Console
- There are times when server gets stuck at some error, e.g. Server goes into hang state. In such cases, needs arises to get an insight into the running system so that the issue can be narrowed down.
- At times one would like to get some information about the registered LiveCycle service, e.g. some metadata, some server information, some kernel information.
- Sometimes one needs to change some settings in the server at run time.
- One may need to redeploy a web application.
- One might need to change the logging level for a particular service or decrease the verbosity of the logs.
- Most of these changes mandate restarting of the server which can be very tardy with a LiveCycle bundled with too many components.
- There are times when the host machine is not accessible directly to debug the issue.
Some benefactions of JMX-Console for debugging LiveCycle issues
I'll be discussing about the following topics that can be helpful while debugging a LiveCycle application/service.
a. Login into JMX-Console
b. Redeploying a LiveCycle war
c. Configuring the log levels for a specific package
d. Generating Thread Dump
e. Stopping LiveCycle Server Instance
f. Starting/Stopping the CRX server
g. Command line JMX management
NOTE: the changes made on JMX-Console remain active till the server is running and vanish once the server is restarted.
- Navigate to http://LCServer:LCPort/jmx-console
- It asks for username/password credentials.
- For having admin roles and permissions, one can navigate to \\Jboss\server\server_instance\conf\props directory where jmx-console-roles.properties and jmx-console-users.properties files are located.
- Uncomment "# admin=admin" in the jmx-console-users.properties and restart the server.
- Now one can login to jmx-console with admin/admin credentials.
- The security settings can be enhanced by going through the following link,
Redeploying a LiveCycle web service
Whenever one needs to change some settings in a war, Jboss doesn't allow to do so until the server is stopped.
Of course, one can always copy the war/ear outside and edit and then hotswap with the existing running war.
But the following seems like a safe and graceful way to modify a war without shutting down the whole running LiveCycle server.
- Navigate to http://LCServer:LCPort/jmx-console
- Under the section "Object Name Filter", click on the link named jboss.web.deployment
- To the right hand side under the section jboss.web.deployment, there will be a listing of context-roots to which various wars are associated.
- Click on the context-root which that is associated with the concerned war.
- This will open the JMX Mbean view of the associated war.
- The mbean names are of format "war=/context_root_associated_with_war".
- Now one can simply start/stop/redeploy the war by clicking on the related "Invoke" button.
Configuring log levels for package(s)
The log levels for a package are changed in Jboss via log4jService located at, \\Jboss\server\server_instance\conf\jboss-log4j.xml.
Or by changing the log4j.properties located in a particular war.
JMX-Console provides a remote way of doing the same.
- Navigate to http://LCServer:LCPort/jmx-console
- Under the section "Object Name Filter", click on the link named jboss.system
- Then click on link service=Logging,type=Log4jService under the section "jboss.system" on the right hand side.
- There are various settings one can alter for logging as per need.
- Custom Logging File – As pointed out before, the log4J settings are controlled via the file named jboss-log4j.xml.
One can even change the settings of the server to point to a custom made logging.xml file.
Replace the value of the attribute named "ConfigurationURL" from "resource:jboss-log4j.xml" to the custom logging.xml file.
The custom file however needs to be placed at the same location alongside the jboss-log4j.xml.
- Get specific Log Level details – Have a look at the jboss-log4j.xml.
It consists of tags named "categories" with different priority values.
In Log4j world, the category is called "Logger" and the priority value is called the "Log Level".
If one wants to know the log level for a particular category specified in the jboss-log4j.xml,
then enter the name of the Logger for the Operation named "getLoggerLevel" and click on the Invoke button.
- Set/Edit new Logger and Log level – One can create new Categories/Logger on the fly and associate a particular package with a Log Level.
Enter the name of the Logger and the Log Level for the Operation named "setLoggerLevel" and click Invoke.
Till the server instance is up and running, the log level for the particular package will remain active.
- Set/Edit multiple Loggers and Log level – One can also set multiple Loggers with a particular Log Level under the Operation named "setLoggerLevels".
- Reconfigure Logging – If the logging is not getting reflected for some unknown reason,
then click on Invoke button for the Operation named "reconfigure".
This is analogous to editing of a jboss-log4j.xml where the saving the changes the logging is reconfigured.
- Edit root threshold Log level – When no Categories are specified then the Log level of Root takes control.
This is specified under as the value for the attribute named "DefaultJBossServerLogThreshold".
Change the value to a required level and click on "Apply Changes".
This will activate the Log Level for all those packages which don't have a category explicitly specified.
- Custom Logging File – As pointed out before, the log4J settings are controlled via the file named jboss-log4j.xml.
A Java thread dump is a way of finding out what every JVM thread is doing at a particular point in time.
This is very helpful in cases where the server has become unresponsive or went into an unexplained hang state.
Thread Dump allows one to get an insight into the failing JVM process.
As an analysis of the dump, it can be known where exactly the threads are stuck.
- In order to get the Thread Dump via JMX-Console,Navigate to http://LCServer:LCPort/jmx-console
- Under the section "Object Name Filter", click on the link named jboss.system
- Then click on link type=ServerInfo under the section "jboss.system" on the right hand side.
- Click on Invoke button of the "listThreadDump" operation to generate the ThreadDump.
- The Thread Dump can then be saved to the file system for analysis.
Stopping LiveCycle Server Instance
The JBoss server instance can be stopped online via JMX-Console.
Especially useful when one doesn't have direct access to the host machine.
i. Navigate to http://LCServer:LCPort/jmx-console
ii. Under the section "Object Name Filter", click on the link named jboss.system
iii. Then click on the link type=Server under the section jboss.system on the right hand side.
iv. Click on Invoke button of the "shutdown" operation to shutdown the server instance.
Starting/Stopping the CRX server
Have a look at second section of the blog entry, http://blogs.adobe.com/apugalia/restarting-crx-server-without-stopping-a-jboss-server-instance/
While JMX-Console provides UI way of debugging and changing the settings,
the same can be achieved through command line by another utility named twiddle that comes bundled with Jboss and is located in the bin folder of the same.
It can perform every task that a JMX-Console can do through UI.
I found a nice article depicting the usage of Twiddle with examples. Have a look at,
Note: The JMXConosle.war is not shipped with the turnkey installations previous to LC ES3.
In such cases, it needs to be downloaded and deployed to the deploy folder of the related Server_Instance.


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text: Elections 18 July 2012 Mitt Romney's biggest problem is... Mitt Romney The Republican's whiny "I'm rubber you're glue" attitude to Obama will alienate American voters. Sign up to the Staggers Morning Call email * Print HTML Republican Mitt Romney decided long ago that the only thing he was going to focus on this campaign was the economy. Not gay marriage. Not immigration. Not gun rights. Not anything but the economy and how the president botched it. He'd present himself, as he did when he ran for governor of Massachusetts, as Mr Fix-It while his deep-pocketed confreres spent beaucoup bucks attacking from the rear. The idea was that the election is a referendum on Barack Obama's first term, but in focusing exclusively on the economy, Romney forget something: to define himself. Most candidates for president tell a story about themselves that connects with Americans emotionally and intimately. Beyond policy, image, mud-slinging and ideology, candidates hope to craft narratives that make them feel real. But unlike George W. Bush's story of redemption and Obama's story of audacious hope, Romney's story inspires little affection. In fact, his story might inspire the opposite of affection, and that may be what Romney fears most. He's the son of a wealthy businessman and statesman who attended elite universities before founding a Wall Street firm that made millions for shareholders while sending thousands of American jobs overseas. He's an influential member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), an arcane religious sect that, unfairly or not, most Americans really don't understand, and neither do some former Mormons. He lives in the shadow of his legendary father. George Romney was the head of the innovative car company (AMC), a firm that made things, as opposed to a private-equity firm like Mitt's Bain Capital that makes nothing. He was also a progressive Republican who fought for civil rights and even contravened his own party to achieve equal opportunity while Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Nixon. And Romney the son is the former (centrist) governor of the only state to initiate universal health care. That would be something to crow loudly about if Romney were a Democrat or if this were 2008. But in 2012, the Republicans' conservative faction has disqualified the fact that he set the example for the biggest domestic policy program of 21st-century America. So Romney doesn't talk about himself. That means opportunity, and Obama has taken it. In a series of attack ads, the Obama campaign has portrayed Romney as a corporate raider who dismantled companies, sent jobs to Mexico and China, and pocketed millions. The president has, as Lou Dubose of the Washington Spectator put it, taken a page from the Karl Rove playbook. The former Bush advisor was famous for taking an opponent's greatest asset — in this case, Romney's background as a big-time business leader — and turning it into his greatest liability. Rove did just that when he "Swiftboated" Vietnam War hero John Kerry. The difference, as Dubose sees it (and I agree), is that while Rove's attacks were based on misinformation, conspiracies and fabulist reveries, Obama's attacks are distinguished for their being grounded in fact. Indeed, Romney has tried to create the impression that Obama is lying about his tenure at Bain Capital, but with rare exception, everything the Obama campaign has said about Romney has come from independent news reports. Obama is also taking advantage of a tic unique to Romney. Talking Points Memo dubbed it the "Rubber/Glue" method. Here's how it works. The president calls Romney an "pioneer" in outsourcing (true, according to the Washington Post). Then Romney returns volley, saying: "I'm rubber you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!" He adds that the president is the "Outsourcer-in-Chief." I wish I were kidding. The more Romney does this, the whinier he appears. Americans don't like whiners. Especially rich ones. So Romney's main problem may be Romney. If he talks about himself, he risks losing votes. If he doesn't talk about himself, he risks losing votes. It's Mitt's Catch-22. If Romney can make this election look like a referendum, he has a chance to win it. If he doesn't, and instead Obama dominates the campaign narrative, then he's sunk. Even House Speaker John Boehner knows this. The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I'll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November … are going to vote for or against Barack Obama. … Mitt Romney has some friends, relatives and fellow Mormons … some people that are going to vote for him... › Morning Call: pick of the papers Mitt Romney's fractured reflection. Photograph: Getty Images John Stoehr teaches writing at Yale. His essays and journalism have appeared in The American Prospect, Reuters Opinion, the Guardian, and Dissent, among other publications. He is a political blogger for The Washington Spectator and a frequent contributor to Al Jazeera English. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles "We are not going to change": Barcelona defies terror with a return to normality The wildfire victims of forestry neglect - and the trees that saved them Barcelona van attack being treated as terrorism Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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"If kids walk away from my books with anything, I hope they have enjoyed reading the books and will be encouraged to read, draw, and create."--Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Jarrett J. Krosoczka is the author-illustrator of Good Night, Monkey Boy; Baghead; Annie Was Warned; and Max for President. The author lives in Boston, MA.
"How old were you when you started drawing?" This is a question that I get asked often and not one that I can truly answer. I really don't know when I first started drawing. I always did, I just never stopped.
I would come home from school and just draw character after character and put them in various scenarios. I was in 3rd grade when I wrote and illustrated a book for the first time. As a kid, I was lucky to have the Worcester Art Museum just down the street from me and even luckier that my grandfather sent me to classes there starting in 6th grade. My first class was a cartooning class and most classes after that had something to do with cartooning! I was in love with Peanuts by Charles Shultz and Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. In fact, all throughout childhood and high school I wanted to either be a cartoonist for a comic strip or a comic book and I also thought that I might be an animator. When I was in high school, I got to be the cartoonist for my school paper and I got such a charge out of seeing my work published.
Right before I graduated high school, two big things happened- 1) I started volunteering at a camp for seriously ill children and 2) I saw two incredible books — The Garden of Abdul Gasazi and The Salamander Room. Both experiences opened my eyes to the potential that creating picture books for a young audience had.
So when I was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, I had already decided that I wanted to be an author and an illustrator for picture books. But I wasn't able to just draw my characters all of the time. I had to take a ton of painting and drawing classes! At the time, I hated it, but I learned so much. It was after I copied a painting by John Singer Sargent that my work took another turn - I started painting my characters! Aside from all of my studio courses, I also took several creative writing courses to sharpen up my writing skills.
Determined to get published, I started submitting stories to publishers while I was still a student. I received a great deal of rejection letters and I also wrote a great deal of new stories.
I graduated and continued to send submissions to publishers like a madman. Eventually, I was invited in by an editor at Random House to show my portfolio. And that is when Good Night, Monkey Boy got picked up! It was a dream come true! My first book would be published! People would read it! My name would be on the spine!
So really, what I do now, isn't any different from what I've been doing since I was a kid — I tell stories with pictures and words. And again- I have no plans of stopping!
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"A prime read-aloud candidate."—The Bulletin
"Young audiences will shiver with pleasure."—Kirkus Reviews
"Playful . . . eye-catching."—Kirkus Reviews
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Tranforms the Bonstelle Theatre with the Power of Storytelling, 2/8-2/17
The Bonstelle Theatre presents the beautiful, timely and highly entertaining The Arabian Nights by Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman. Zimmerman adapts the influential collection of Persian, Indian and Arabic tales, The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night, into a resonating stage play. Her play tells the age-old story of a young maiden who must captivate her husband with spellbinding narratives each night to postpone her impending demise at his hands.
Tickets are $12-$15 and are available by calling (313) 577-2960, by visiting www.bonstelle.com, or by visiting the Wayne State University Theatres' Box Office located at 4743 Cass Avenue on the corner of Hancock.
Featuring a large ensemble cast, The Arabian Nights follows the young maiden, Scheherezade, as she tempts fate each night with the help of a troupe of colorful characters who shift between roles as each one of her new tales unfold. Sprawling rugs and lush drapery dominate an otherwise sparse stage, transporting the audience from her husband's bed chamber to exotic locales that are imagined simply through performance and the power of words - a spectacle to be seen!
Each one of Scheherezade's nightly fables displays a universality that originated centuries ago, spreading through oral tradition, the written page and, now, the stage. Famed fictional icons from The Thousand Nights and One Night, Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba, are omitted in favor of the lesserknown, humanistic tales featuring such characters as Perfect Love and Huran al-Rashid, which shine just as brightly as their celebrated counterparts. These ancient tales of love, hilarity, and sorrow break down the barrier of the unknown, revealing a piece of each audience member within the stories on-stage.
Nominated in 1994 for a Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Director of a Play) for The Arabian Nights, Zimmerman's original inspiration behind writing the play was political in nature: 1991's Gulf War. Reflecting on this period to the Kansas City Star in 2009, she stated, "In the build-up to war, as in all build-ups to all wars, there was a lot of stuff on the news that I felt was geared toward making the viewer think that the people in the Middle East were somehow different than ourselves...that somehow their grief would be less when we go to war with them." With the power of storytelling as her weapon, she set out to remind the world that we are more similar than we realize, regardless of culture or
geographic location.
As the United States continues its immersion in the conflict in the Middle East, with seemingly no end in sight, The Arabian Nights continues to be as relevant today as it was 20 years ago, if not more. According to Zimmerman, "This culture...in fact, is much older than our own and has a very rich literary and poetic and artistic history," a history that will come alive on the Bonstelle Theatre's stage.


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Baltimore County Police have charged 41-year-old Anthony Paul Rutherford of Fox Run Court in Reisterstown with first degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Kendra Michelle Rutherford.
On December 8 at 3:09 p.m., Baltimore County Police and Fire personnel responded to a home in the unit block of Fox Run Court in Reisterstown 21136 for a report of a dwelling fire. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they made entry into the home and found 35-year-old Kendra Michelle Rutherford unresponsive on the first floor. She was transported to Northwest Hospital where she was declared deceased.
Fire Investigators determined that the fire in the home had been deliberately set.
On January 24, the death of Kendra Michelle Rutherford was ruled a homicide by means of asphyxiation by the Medical Examiner. Detectives then obtained an arrest warrant for Anthony Paul Rutherford.
Anthony Paul Rutherford was taken into custody and faces charges of first degree murder and first degree arson. He is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.


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Anthology , downtown's state-of-the-art concert venue and supper club, will close early next month for at least a week.
According to Anthology co-owner Howard Berkson, the nearly six-year-old club will be closed the "first week in January to assess needed upgrades, refurbishments and repairs."
Berkson on Monday attributed the move to wear and tear on the multimillion dollar venue, which opened in June, 2007. "We have been open for nearly six years and have had a tremendous amount of traffic through the room — over a half million people," he said. "It's taken its toll on the space."
How long those repairs and upgrades will take remains to be determined.
As of Monday, no concerts for January or beyond appear on the Anthology web site. At least three previously scheduled January concerts at the venue — two by local acts and a Jan. 11 date by the Monterrey Jazz Festival All Stars — have been canceled.
"(Anthology) told me they'd decided to close the first three months of 2013 to remodel," said Jack Randall, the All Stars' booking agent. Randall is the vice president of Ted Kurland Associates, which also represents such past Anthology performers as Pulitzer Prize-winning band leader Wynton Marsalis, pianist Chick Corea and guitarist Pat Metheny.
Anthology is located on India Street at the edge of Little Italy. Since its 2007 opening, the three-level, 13,000-square-foot club has hosted an array of nationally renowned jazz, pop, blues, folk and rock artists. At least 14 more evenings of music are scheduled to take place at the venue between Tuesday and Dec. 31.
"From my perspective, the level of jazz talent they book at Anthology is as high a quality of acts as any club in the country," Randall said. "Anthology is certainly in the upper echelon, along with Yoshi's in Oakland, Jazz Alley in Seattle, The Dakota in Minneapolis and the Blue Note in New York."


text: If you have the resources for a complex backup scheme, then i recommend that you add a second NIC on every computer that acts a a media server, get a good gigabit switch and connect those new NICs to the switch and then build a NAS that is quick, and connect the NAS to that switch. Separate your backup data from your internet/wifi data to reduce the ACK noise. I am only suggesting.


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Let's talk about houseplants! Everyone is welcome!
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I have posted a couple of photos of plants that I am growing where there is no natural light. I use an ultra violet fluro tube light, you can get them from a pet store that stock tropical fish,…Continue
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Joey I love the Clivia and have seen them in ithers backyards... on TV.. in tropical climates. Do you keep these year round? Ps.. I love you.
BIg smooch for the Choc Mim seeds , they will be in dirt in a few weeks. March tends to freeze a bit and I had a LOT of damage with last weeks freeze.
I'm doing ok but my houseplants didn't fair too well with the move. Don't know if the fellow who is helping me do house repairs turned the heat down too far or I forgot to water on one of my week trips to dog sit and clean or what the heck but the huge Christmas cactus bit the dust. Some others were really bad off when I came home. The spider was 2/3s gone, along with the grape ivy thing, and others. The purple shamrock shot up a few leaves when I watered it the other day. But my fall garden in the big pots are still producing some food when I uncovered them. Some had molded away under the heavy black plastic and winter. Will be eating radishes soon out of one. Have to cover them all every night as it gets up to 40s-60 days then 20s all this week.
Indoor plants seem to need more than outdoors, Marianne, but I would still use a weak mix often.
Thank you Keryn, you obviously are fertilizing just right! Mine are indoors, but it has been a relatively cool summer. I will try just a little fertilizer. At least the plants look healthy and still alive!
I don,t fertilize very much, under trees mostly because the trees take from the plants under them. I use a week naturally manure liquid that I make in a 40 Lt container. Put a bit of manure in the bottom of container and fill with water and let rest, stir a few times. Water it down too a weak tea, before putting on plants. You can certainly kill plants with too strong a fertilizer.
Thanks Marianne, not sure about your climate. Mine does not get below 30 f , it would need to be under cover if you get colder than that. They do need sunshine to flower for part of the day, not full sun.
Your orchid is incredibly gorgeous Keryn! Mine look good but have not bloomed. Maybe some fertilizer today!
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text: Show Hide image Politics 2 May 2013 Dare to dream – lessons from Sarajevo in times of war and peace Felix Martin's "Real Money" column. Sign up for our weekly email * Don't dream dreams." That was the infamous advice dispensed by David Owen to the people of the besieged city of Sarajevo during one of his missions there in 1992. Don't believe that the outside world will save you; don't imagine that there really is such a thing as an international community – let alone that it will guarantee your human rights. Every time I visit Sarajevo, as I did a few weeks ago, I am reminded of Lord Owen's chilling warning; of Sarajevo's magnificent refusal to heed it; and of the many profound lessons that beautiful city still has to teach the world. In the two decades since Lord Owen's visit, Sarajevo has had three distinct periods. First, there was the war. For nearly four years between 1992 and 1996, a city of 400,000 people one hour's flying time from Vienna was subjected to shelling, starvation and a relentless campaign of terror from a vicious and well-equipped army dug into the hills encircling the city. The outside world temporised as more than 11,500 civilians were killed. So desperate was the Bosnian government that it resorted to releasing thieves and murderers from Sarajevo's jails to man its defences. The great criminals were up on the hills, however, hoping that the living hell they had created would turn the city's multiconfessional population against one another and so produce the rationale that their monstrous actions lacked. But Sarajevo did not crack. Like Londoners during the Blitz, Sarajevans understood instinctively that allowing the war to destroy their communal lives and their basic humanity would mean that the aggressors had won. Everyone who knows the city has a story that captures its spirit of resistance. My favourite is from my friend Haris Pasovic – one of Yugoslavia's star theatre directors, who crossed the front line to return to Sarajevo in the first months of the siege and promptly organised an international film festival. "You're crazy," a UN official objected, "holding a film festival in the middle of a war!" "What do you mean?" Pasovic replied, pointing up at the hills. "These people are crazy, holding a war in the middle of a film festival." When the siege finally ended in 1996, another phase in Sarajevo's existence began. As part of the Dayton Peace Accords, an international civilian administration was established in the city alongside the Nato military presence. The idea was that as Nato enforced the peace, the so-called Office of the High Representative would bring democracy and dev - elopment to Bosnia, aided by an alphabet soup of other international organisations. A generation of well-meaning young Europeans descended on Sarajevo, allegedly to teach its citizens about global best practice in good governance, economic development and human rights. They were there to facilitate what was in those days vaguely invoked as "transition". This implied moving from A – presumably the idiosyncratic, pre-war, Yugoslav system of socialist self-management – to B, presumably a western-European style liberal democracy and market economy. None of the new arrivals knew much about A, however; and as most were either diplomats or fresh out of graduate school or both, few knew much about B, either. I should know: I was one of them. The results were mostly farcical. We fresh-faced apostles set about attempting to convert the natives to the Good News of anti-corruption initiatives, evidence-based policymaking and good governance. Our main tool was the interminable incantation of bureaucratic development jargon every bit as impenetrable as the overblown newspeak of the old socialist regime. To top it all, there even was another benevolent dictator – the high representative – to replace Tito. A decade before the postwar debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq exposed at terrible cost the deficiencies of overambitious international interventions, Sarajevo showed just how counterproductive attempting to establish a "government of leading strings" run by latter-day liberal imperialists could be. Once again, it was my friend Haris Pasovic who summed up this second lesson from Sarajevo best when he complained to me that people had been much better off under Tito. "Ah, yes," I said, "but that was during the cold war. The Americans were paying for that." "The Americans are paying for this, too," was his deadpan response, "and let me tell you: it's much worse . . ." Today, the international circus has moved on. Sarajevo has returned to what it once was, the provincial capital of a small Mediterranean country. It may be an enchantingly beautiful city, rich in the cultural heritage of two great empires and four great religions – but it hardly seems the sort of place that has any lessons for us in the UK any more. After my recent visit, I am not so sure. Like much of eastern Europe, the destination of Bosnia's transition proved to be an often ugly combination of asset-stripping oligarchs with a dishevelled and demotivated state. The standard of living has fallen for much of Bosnia's ageing population for most of the past 20 years. And yet, the ideal of a civil society clings tenaciously on. I wonder if we in the UK will manage to do as well. The economic and social starting points for us are vastly different but the trajectory is not entirely dissimilar. When I lived in Sarajevo, many diplomats never wasted an opportunity to lecture the locals on the poor job they were doing of facing up to their reduced circumstances. Fortunately for Sarajevo's citizens, they had long ago learned to ignore improvident warnings against dreaming dreams. Life – as one discovers under siege – is made of little else. As we enter the sixth year of what looks increasingly like a lost decade for the UK economy, I hope that is one more lesson we can learn from Sarajevo. Felix Martin is a macroeconomist and bond investor. His book "Money: the Unauthorised Biography" (Bodley Head, £20) is out in June Felix Martin is a macroeconomist, bond trader and the author of Money: the Unauthorised Biography Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 29 April 2013 issue of the New Statesman, What makes us human? More


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
This exercise will demonstrate how important it is to draw your ideas, as opposed to simply writing them down.
Get out a piece of paper and draw a picture of a shoe. Make sure to draw in all the details such as the logo, laces, treads, etc.
Now, write a paragraph describing in detail every piece of your picture. Imagine that you are having a telephone conversation with an alien who has no idea what a shoe is. You might start with something like this, "This item is about 10 inches by 3 inches by 4 inches. The bottom is made of rubber and is in the shape of a..."
Which part of this exercise was easier? You probably found that it was very difficult to describe certain shapes or aspects that were easy to draw. Do you think the drawing or the text would more quickly convey the idea of a shoe to an alien?
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