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Easy Back of Door Gift Wrap Organizer
Lucky for me, the organizing stars aligned this weekend while I was browsing in Ikea. I found a few kitchen accessories and wondered if that might do the trick. Turned out to be just perfect for what I wanted. For $20, I'm hoping I never waste another roll of beautiful paper again. The best part? It was super easy to install.
I simply screwed the bars onto the inside of a closest door, hung the baskets and used the curtain clips to hang the gift wrap. The most difficult part was finding screws (Ikea didn't include them with the bars! ARGH!)
Such a small and easy project but I love how it turned out. And look - I even have room for a few more rolls. Hmmm.
details: I used 3 of the BYGEL rails, one FINTORP bucket, 2 BYGEL wire baskets, BYGEL hooks and a package of these DIGNITET curtain hooks.
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This is pretty brilliant. I don't even have wrapping paper to store, but I could see using this for a million things. Right now I have a hanging shoe rack on the back of my front closet door holding cleaning supplies, random things, and shoes (of course). I'd love something like this, but we can't drill holes into the doors of our apartment. Lame, right?ReplyDelete
But I'll keep this in mind for our first home! Thanks for sharing your cleverness!
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You could always use one of those over the door hangers for towels with the clips. This way no holes in the door and you can take it with you when you leave!Delete
Love this idea!! Anything to save space and organize-- esp this time of year. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Love this idea! Such a great way to store & display your gift wrap supplies. I like how it's easy to spot what gift wrap items you need at a glance. Like if you have a little girl's birthday, and all you have are Iron Man and wedding wrap. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Fantastic use of otherwise dead space! You have so many great ideas floating around in that head of yours. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Great idea!ReplyDelete
My mother gave me a couple of bars like this. Now I'm thinking they would be great to store fabrics on in a similar fashion.
Great Idea! I will be sharing this on my blog. I love organizing tips. ThanksReplyDelete
- Pam3:20 PM
Love it. I've got the same doors and have been wanting to get the wrapping paper out from under the bed. (I swear it multiplies under there with the dust bunnies.) Any chance that the rods separate so you can slip some ribbon rolls on them? If not I might use cafe curtain rods for mine. Great job! Happy Monday!ReplyDeleteReplies
I have done the same thing with regular cheap curtain rods. Works well. Also use them for hanging scarves.Delete
I love this! I'm always looking for a better system for my wrapping paper. And it was cheap!ReplyDelete
This is so brilliant, I can hardly stand it. Wow! Absolutely genius, Stefanie.ReplyDelete
This is so great! What a fabulous idea! Now I'm really hating my bi-fold doors! ;)ReplyDelete
- MrsLimestone9:02 AM
No, the doors are definitely new. These are the only new doors in our entire house because we created a closet where there wasn't one. I think there are levels of hollow doors but these have a bit of solid wood around the panel area. Its not completely solid because they are much lighter than a solid door. But they aren't completely hollow either.ReplyDelete
This is FABulous. I'm itching to head to IKEA right this very minute to get the stuff to do it, but it's gonna have to wait a while. Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
Genius I love it. Why is it when I'm at Ikea my brain turns to moosh and I can't think as to what I'd use that for or what it is I even came for!?!?! :) I've got to copy this...too good, especially since I just wrapped gifts and almost died while scaling the garage piles to get to my wrap. Not kidding! LOl.ReplyDelete
This is amazing! I have been wanting to make a gift wrap organizer for so long, and like you said, nothing really suited me. THIS seems to be just what my brain was trying to think up and picture...thanks for the inspiration. Love finding multiple uses for IKEA goodies. Yay!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:28 PM
Thank you! Sometimes it's these small ideas that make the greatest difference. I just followed your instructions and did this in my closet. It works perfectly. Mine is on the inside wall of a walk-in instead of a door. It has cleared out three whole shelves for me and I'm grateful for the extra space. Love your blog.ReplyDelete
Good tip - thanks.ReplyDelete
The paper doesn't unroll at all in the clip. Good point on preventing a little mark on the paper. Its barely noticeable so it doesn't bother me but if you had really fancy paper, its a good idea to save it from the damage.ReplyDelete
I don't usually use gift bags but you could easily add a hook at the bottom to hang them from.ReplyDelete
Love it! What a brilliant idea!ReplyDelete
What a great idea!ReplyDelete
I'm not sure what wallpaper you are referring to but the clips hold the gift wrap rolls very well (never had one fall since I've installed this!). It does make a tiny kink at the edge which doesnt bother me since it's minor (and much less damage than happens when I leave the rolls in a pile in the closet) but you could protect the paper with a limitless cardboard between the clip and paper if you like.ReplyDelete
I love those 3M things but I dont think they would work in this case because they are only supposed to hold a pound or two. With all of the paper rolls loaded on, this bar can get kinda heavy. So I would probably not use them unless you were planning on restricting what you hung.ReplyDeleteReplies
I noticed the curtain hooks you used are no longer listed on the Ikea website (do not have a Ikea :( here). Do you think the Riktig curtain hooks would work?Delete
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This is what I was wondering too! I bought the Riktig curtain hooks but they are too small to loop on to the rod :(Delete
I love the idea! is a great way of organizing! :DReplyDelete
I did the same thing in my house in my kitchen to hold pots and pans tops! Works brilliantly!ReplyDelete
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You would need to have something for the screws to hang on to. If you have a hollow door, you might want to use some heavy duty epoxy or glue to hang the poles instead of screws. Hope that helps!Delete
I have a couple of questions: wondering the same as others - the clips that are no longer avail. any ideas of right-size solutions? Also, the rolls you have, are those clips strong enough to hold most sizes of wrapping paper rolls? Some rolls are larger than others and I wondered if the clips are strong enough for some of the larger rolls of paper?ReplyDelete
I would think you could use any solid curtain ring clips to get the job done. I've never had any issue with any size gift wrap roll provided the clamp was large enough to grasp it. So for example those giant rolls from Costco wouldn't work but I hang all sorts of standard rolls and have never had one fall. Hope that helps!Delete


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We've talked about this before , but the paperless boarding pass pilot program is picking up steam and I thought I'd give you an update.
It was just rolled out at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. Check out the press conference with CVG Federal Security Director Paul Wisniewski and Delta Field Director Paul Baird, along with a brief demonstration.
The program rolled out in 2007 and is now operating at the following 20 airports:
Atlanta Hartsfield International (ATL), Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS), Boston Logan International (BOS), Chicago O-Hare International (ORD), Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International (CVG),Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW), George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Indianapolis International (IND), John Wayne, Orange County, CA (SNA), Las Vegas McCarren (LAS), Los Angeles International (LAX), Memphis (MEM), Minneapolis-St. Paul International (MSP), New York LaGuardia (LGA), Newark International (EWR), Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), Salt Lake City International (SLC), San Antonio International (SAT), Seattle-Tacoma International (SEA)
Alaska: SEA
American: ORD, SNA, LAX
Continental: IAH, DCA, EWR, BOS, AUS, SAT, CLE, LGA, LAS
Delta/Northwest: ATL, LAS, MEM, MSP, DET, SLC, CVG
Delta only: LGA
Northwest only: IND
So what do we mean by paperless? Are boarding passes being made out of plastic? Nope… Passengers will be able to receive their boarding passes on their cell phones or PDAs.
Why are we doing this? Well, it's hip to be green, right? That's kind of cool, but this has some other perks. First off, you don't have to worry about that troublesome boarding pass any longer. Now the boarding pass is your phone. You're far less likely to lose your phone than you are your tickets.
The paperless boarding pass will also prevent fraudulent paper boarding passes that could be created and printed from home.
The paperless boarding pass has a two dimensional state of the art tamper resistant super duper bar code as well as your name and flight information. Our Travel Document Checkers (TDCs) will scan your paperless boarding pass as seen in the video above.
I bet you're wondering how the two dimensional state of the art tamper resistant super duper bar code works? I can't just give something a title like that and not take the time to explain it, can I?
Unlike the usual one dimensional single line bar code you would normally see on a box of Cap'n Crunch, this bar code is two dimensional . The encrypted code contains passenger information as well as authentication information from the airline that can only be decoded by a TSA scanner. TSA is also working with the airlines to create the same type of bar code for those who choose to use paper boarding passes. How is it tamper resistant you might ask? Well, I guess you could manipulate the code if you really wanted to, but the scanner will detect any sign of tampering.
As long as youre phone/PDA can receive and open attachments and you're flying out of one of the airports listed above on a participating airline on the second Tuesday of the month, you can take part in this pilot program. (OK, I was kidding about the second Tuesday of the month…)
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We've talked about this before , but the paperless boarding pass pilot program is picking up steam and I thought I'd give you an update.
This is great to see. An example where the TSA is trying to make peoples' lives easier rather than harder.
My only question is why a limited roll-out? Why not enable this everywhere?
I think I will pass...and this would be great for a hacker to steal any information. Encryption??? Just need to find a good decryption algorithm and a really fast computer...and don't trust the scanners to not save any information or not contain any other personal info. :p
Sorry, anonymous, but a properly implemented encryption system is more than secure enough. Sure, a "really fast computer" can brute-force any encryption, but if the brute-force pass takes longer than the time until the flight, the "decryption" is useless.
I suspect what is being described here is actually a digital signature, to make sure the data in the bar code has not been tampered with. That's fine, as long as the folks implementing the signature code stay on top of developments in the encryption world, moving to new signature standards as they are released.
Will our date-of-birth and/or gender be encoded in the 2D barcode under the "Secure Flight" dragnet? How about home address?
Will TSA use these barcodes to create a database of who passes through checkpoints, and when and how often they do so? Every time they scan a BP, they can store the info. Maybe they'll store it in the same database along with the "un-savable" virtual strip-search machine image that they want for all of us. :(
Encryption and digital signatures are great, but the devil is in the implementation details. Is the data on the barcode truly encrypted, or is it just signed by the airlines' private key? If that's the case, anyone who finds a 2D-barcode BP on the ground can get all the personal info, because a tamper-resistant signature (which I suspect is TSA's main/real concern) does not mean the data itself isn't in plaintext.
And all it will take to make fake boarding passes is to compromise the private signature key of one airline. Someone will either bribe an airline employee or just start a brute force attack on one of the signature keys. I'm not very confident that TSA will mandate reasonably secure signature keys (2408-bit public/private keypairs, and a modern hash function that excludes those that have been compromised in the last few years like MD5 and SHA-1).
TSA has such a terrible history, and there's just so much opportunity for screwup here. It seems inevitable that either their will be a major breach of private information or an early and obvious breach of the technique's "security" or a major overreach by TSA in creating a database of those who pass the TSA checkpoint. Or all of the above.
Can only be decoded by the TSA scanner?
You do know thats going to change in about a week and a half? This EXACT thing has been tried before... MA has a 2d bar code on the back of every license.... and within weeks of it happening, half the bars in the state had readers for them.
I mean, if its just a bar code, its going to get figured out really quickly. WHat I didn't see (maybe I missed it) in your writeup was how it works beyond the bar code.
If its properly designed, that bar code would have to have all the boarding pass information plus a digital signature.
If thats what it is, then releasing that that is how it is shouldn't decrease the security at all. In fact, I would say, that if its designed in such a way that telling people how to read the bar code would decrease the security....then you did it wrong... and its going to be broken.
Good math doesn't cheat and can't be cheated.
> I think I will pass...and this would be > great for a hacker to steal any
> information. Encryption??? Just need to > find a good decryption algorithm and a
> really fast computer...and don't trust
> the scanners to not save any
> information or not contain any other
> personal info. :p
You make some good points but, one of the examples I have always liked is military troop movement data. Does it need to be kept private and secure today? Absolutely. However, if the enemy cracks it next week... who cares? Its not valid anymore.
SO there is an inherent security in these tokens in that, they are of very limited usefulness. Even if I can steal your token and gain entry... when you show up stammering and protesting that you have a valid boarding pass and the system shows a duplicate.... its not like I (the perp in this case) am long gone... I am sitting in a numbered seat.
Even just outright forging them for seats, unless you happen to have access to the empty seats list, and be sure that nobody got bumped to one o fthose seats... its going to be pretty risky to use. NOTHING deters crime like a high risk of being caught.
The real concern in my eyes is what other info might be in there. Honestly, all it needs to be is a random number, then you just keep a whitelist of good numbers for each flight.... simple and deadly effective.
OH my last solution was wrong. I was thinking security in terms of fraud, and what would stop dishonest people.
A simple random serial number would work if you don't care who uses the pass, as long as its the right person (so a "collision" where two people show up naturally indicates either a major system screwup, or a cheater)
To actually verify ID, you need to put the ID into the token, and use a digital signature. A little more data, but not hard at all.
In fact, I almost wonder if the size of the "message" would be small and defined format, might make a birthday attack on the message digest impractical.
Of course, then you want to be expiring and generating new keys on a regular basis.... but I guess it does no good me designing the system... I am really curious how the one you implemented works (again, I point out, the technology exists to do this such that knowing the details doesn't make attack easier, so if thats not the case, you did it wrong)
Since information about your boarding card is already stored on computers all around the airport, I think your exposure to "hacking" remains roughly similar.
Also decrypt what? It uses a bar-code exactly like your existing boarding card except, it is a bar code designed to be easily readable using a standard camera.
If you did decode it, and it isn't meant to be difficult, you would just end up with a unique number that corresponds to the ticket number generated by the airline.
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"Barcode hack in 3... 2...."
Just can't seem to stop with the negativity, can you Trollkiller? lol Its ok, though. It's your life to waste. :)
Hi Steve and Philr:
You both make very good points. Brute force decryption is very tedious and definitely not worth the hassle if you're trying to steal someone's boarding pass. However, assuming that other personal data is there, then maybe there might be some use. I am not really concerned about boarding pass fraud, more into the privacy concerns. Even if a hacker gains the name and maybe even the address of a passenger, then privacy is compromised. With internet research, a hacker can gain more information including phone numbers, credit information, and others (as long name and address is provided). A good stalker's dream, as long he/she doesn't mind the risk of getting caught and the huge penalties.
Sorry, but I have not done much research with barcode encryption/decryption. Thus, don't have much knowledge with those. Closest thing I seen is magnetic card readers...I seen a presentation on how easy it is to read driver license information with just a basic card reader...quite interesting! :)
...And just in cause you are wondering, I do NOT perform or encourage illegal hacking. I am just really interested and studied digital security. :)
Thanks for the feedback.
I should hope that the barcode is encrypted....
It seems like what people are worried about is the actual security of the barcodes, but it wouldn't be an issue if they were encrypted using SHA-1 or something. Using a secure passkey would make the system take so long to brute-force, it wouldn't be worth it.
Two questions: First, am I allowed to take my cell phone through the detector if it has the boarding pass code on it? If not, it will add time to the process, because the phone will have to be retrieved before I can present it to the guard after the metal detector.
Second question: you say "The paperless boarding pass will also prevent fraudulent paper boarding passes that could be created and printed from home." That of course is only true if only paperless boarding is accepted. How do you plan to work with people who don´t have cell phones or PDAs?
Alot of talk about ID fraud going around. But what you all need to understand is this machine is just taking all the information thats already on your paper boarding passes and transfering it into a ridiculously difficult to copy format. Your name and information on the flight, same amount of information about yourself that you have been happily giving the airlines when you check in for years. Even if the code was cracked and they could make a copy of the code all that would mean is they have the copy of digital boarding pass that someone else should also have while boarding the plane that day. They will probably randomly generate different codes for every single pass ever so no single pass will ever have the same bar code, like a fingerprint. At least thats how I understand this should work, I could be wrong.
This is a reasonable approach, assuming they are using appropriate encryption/key lengths and key custody best practices. (insert pregnant pause here...)
Again as pointed out the time period for required for a successful attack, given all the supporting documentation.
Unlikely to result in a practical attack unless it's an extremely determined dork with all his or her stars lining up.
Someone alert Schneier, geeks on the run!
In the information you provide about what Airlines are providing this feature at certain airlines, you have Alaska:SEA and American Airlines running together on the same line.
Hrmm.. I don't have a PDA, and my cellphone can't receive pictures.
EPIC FAIL for a "universal" system.
It's a very secure barcode. It's actually a two step process:
2: 4 'wheel' rotating 40 bit enigma using the ciphertext of "DoYoUwAnTtfLyToDaY" that has been Xor'd with julian date and time of issue.
If people are so worried about using you're phone to access or use it as an EBP/ Ticket, then maybe you should put away you're iPhones & stop using the internet as well.
Honestly, if I was a hacker I would forget about their ticket why not just hack their phone or e-mail address. Take all of their personal info then?
But yes I can see how using a ticket via the internet on you're phone can be risky business. I agree w/ many of you, I sure as heck don't want my info to be hacked.
UPC bar codes are two-dimensional, too: length and width. The boarding pass barcodes simply have shapes besides lines.
Two questions: First, am I allowed to take my cell phone through the detector if it has the boarding pass code on it? If not, it will add time to the process, because the phone will have to be retrieved before I can present it to the guard after the metal detector.
Second question: you say "The paperless boarding pass will also prevent fraudulent paper boarding passes that could be created and printed from home." That of course is only true if only paperless boarding is accepted. How do you plan to work with people who don´t have cell phones or PDAs?
To answer your first question, all the airports that accept the paperless boarding pass shouldn't be checking boarding passes at the metal detector anymore. This was adopted to avoid adding extra time to the trek through security.
You have a good point on your second question. We haven't been told that we are going to stop accepting paper boarding passes any time soon. Unless Bob knows something we don't, you should be fine with paper boarding passes for quite some time into the future.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the most likely problem...
What if it simply fails to work? You have to get out of line, go back to a ticket counter, wait in line to print a boarding pass, and go through security all over again.
By that time, you may have missed your flight, much less a connecting flight.
Sorry, I love my iPhone but don't trust this enough to be willing to miss my flights just to save one piece of paper.
All the information used for the electronic boarding pass is the same information used on the paper boarding pass. The paper boarding pass is printed up off the computer, therefor all of the information used to purchase this ticket is being stored in a computer anyways. What ever database that the airlines store this information hasn't changed. It is all the same except they send you a copy to your PDA that can be read right from your electronic device, instead of printing it. This does not make your information anymore susceptible to being stolen. The information is not stored anywhere on TSA's end. It is simply there for a matter of seconds while the TSO compares your ID to the information. Then it disappears.
No matter what the TSA does (and this is the airlines doing by the way) You people will moan and complain. Your never happy. And you wonder why no one takes your complaints seriously.
Let's see how long it is before TSA comments on this story:
Not to be a nitpicker (which of course means, thats exactly what I am about to be) but SHA-1 is a hash not an encryption.
Hash = One way Function (original data can't be recovered)
Encryption = two way (original data can be recovered with the appropriate key)
You can combine the two. Since encryption is computationally expensive, and hashing is relatively "cheap", you can hash a message to create a "secure" checksum (secure in this case just means that it would be very hard to come up with another legitimate message that hashes to the same value) and then encrypt the hash with a private key.
This creates a "digital signature". Verification means computing the hash, and then using the public key to decrypt the encrypted hash.
If the two are the same, then you have a high degree of confidence* that the message wasn't tampered with since the public key decrypted the hash and the hash of the message matched the hash that you decrypted.
(* theoretically its possible to have a collision of some sort... a message that generates the same hash, or a bad decryption key would decrypt the hash to a random value, which could randomly match.... but with most hashes being 128 bits or so, the chances of that are so unlikely that I have yet to hear anyone seriously talk of the possibility)
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"I am surprised no one has mentioned the most likely problem...
What if it simply fails to work? You have to get out of line, go back to a ticket counter, wait in line to print a boarding pass, and go through security all over again.
By that time, you may have missed your flight, much less a connecting flight.
Sorry, I love my iPhone but don't trust this enough to be willing to miss my flights just to save one piece of paper."
I work at one of these airports which uses this new technology.
It does happen that sometimes there is a failure for the equipment to read one of these tickets.
What we do is direct the person back to the ticket counter, but not to wait in line. They can go right up to their airline ticket counter, get a new ticket. Or better yet, if there is a self-check-in machine, use that.
Then the person is allowed to come back up to the front of the TSA line. Again, no waiting.
So if it doesn't work, it really doesn't take much more time to get through.
However, and I do not have a percentage, this electronic failure very rarely happens.
Hrmm.. I don't have a PDA, and my cellphone can't receive pictures.
EPIC FAIL for a "universal" system.
It is not for everyone. Only frequent fliers recieve this technology as of now. It is just a trial. It may not even make it outside of its trial period. And if it does, I am sure the paper passes will still be available, so people who are not up on their technology can also fly.
Two questions: First, am I allowed to take my cell phone through the detector if it has the boarding pass code on it? If not, it will add time to the process, because the phone will have to be retrieved before I can present it to the guard after the metal detector.
Second question: you say "The paperless boarding pass will also prevent fraudulent paper boarding passes that could be created and printed from home." That of course is only true if only paperless boarding is accepted. How do you plan to work with people who don´t have cell phones or PDAs?
June 19, 2009 5:25 PM
When we first began the paperless boarding pass, which was months ago at my airport, we were still checking boarding passes at the WTMD. There were laminated passes that said that you were electronicly checked. I am not sure how other airports handle this, but we do not check tickets anymore at the walk through. So you can place your PDA or phone onto the xray belt. There is no need for having to retrieve the phone and holding up the lane so the TSO can see it again.
Not everyone has access to this. It will never be fully electronic, because of cases like yours. Not everyone has a phone or PDA and they are aware of this.
I found a Privacy Impact Assessment(PIA) for Boarding Pass Scanning System.
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The document should answer a few questions that have been posted here. Just keep in mind that the document is from 2007.
-Tim "H2H"
TSA Blog Team
You may have noticed that the scanners deployed at ORD are used to scan all boarding passes, paper or on cell phones. The process is very efficient and it is a much more modern process than at airports where the scanners are only used when a passenger has a cell phone boarding pass. Why isn't TSA scanning the paper boarding passes at all airports where the scanners are installed? It seems it would improve the accuracy of the screening.
Anon @ "Second question: you say "The paperless boarding pass will also prevent fraudulent paper boarding passes that could be created and printed from home." That of course is only true if only paperless boarding is accepted. How do you plan to work with people who don´t have cell phones or PDAs?"
Simple. Although it looks completely optional in trial, when TSA rolls it out in production, people without TSA-compliant cell phones or PDAs will get retaliatory full-body-pat-downs or make the Hobson's choice of not flying. Just like the "optional" MMW system.
@Tim (Happy2Help)
Many thanks for the doc! My quick read says that this is done pretty much the way I would expect (and how I would implement it myself, for the most part).
I still don't agree with the conclusion that this will increase security, but, that mostly is because I don't see a threat from totally anonymous boarding passes, but hey... at least you have the technical specifics right.
For any who care, my summary:
The bar code contains your identifying information (including name) and a secure hash that has been signed by the airline with their private key.
However, what I don't see, is mention of which hashes and ciphers will be used, nor how long the keys will be.
Though, given the length of the message, I would assume that birthday attacks on the hash wont be practical?
That would be the main concern that I see. Though, maybe I should just keep my mouth shut :) afterall, I don't see any security problem with someone changing the name on their own boarding pass and handing it off to someone else, and thats the only scenario where a birthday attack would be helpful (for all the previously mentioned reasons that breaking these tokens isn't useful)
To all those with outdated phones and security fears, stay with the status-quo. You can still use your paper boarding passes.
Don't worry your pretty little heads about 2-D barcodes, encryption and such.
dumb idea more people in line texting and talking on their cell phones just slowing the lines down more. So now all of us have to wait to the complete their call so they can scan the PDA/Iphone. I hope you have a line for us folks that have paper
The 2D codes have a very high tolerance for error reduction in their creation upto 60% on some. So there would be no issue in 'printing' and the codes not working.
However, i do agree with 'Carp' that they can't possibly encrypt a digital signature and all a passenger's details within the barcode because someone will always figure out a way to decrypt/read them.
The only way i can think for these to have any use and not be a major security issue is that they would act as a URL to a login page for the passenger?
All the information is totally related or to the point. There is no single line out of the topic. I am strongly agree with you
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I've mentioned what we find in books, but I don't believe I mentioned that there is a special side to really big books (known as folio in the trade. Someday I'll tell you all about the names for book sizes, from folio to quarto and so on. Someday I'll understand it myself. People who know these things are born, not made.) People are prone to leaving things in the biggies.
See, once upon a time, kiddies, anybody who felt they were civilized had a parlor. In this parlor were the bits of furniture nice enough to show to guests, the family photograph album, the family autograph album, the family phonograph album, the wax fruit, the wax flowers, framed needlework, and, on a big stand, the family Bible. We don't do this any more. I put it down to the 1950s, myself. Having a room just for company was all very well until the television was invented. Why sit in the parlor and look at Grandma's graduation picture when wrestling was on TV?
Anyway, one of the purposes of the family Bible on its stand was to be the repository of family souvenirs: birth certificates, or one rose from the wedding bouquet, or the cabinet photo of Aunt Mabel's eldest, the one who went to Berwyn and was never heard from again. Not only was it a safe place that everyone could locate, but it was big. A Parlor Bible was a massive volume with thick gilded leather covers and massive pages: nearly useless for easy reading but very handy for keeping documents flat.
Well, we don't DO that kind of thing now. So it's the huge art books and atlases that I find those things you or your parents or your grandparents set there for safekeeping. Just this year, I've had a Junior Achievement certificate "signed" by President Clinton (see my blog on autographs), an aerial shot of somebody's second home in the Florida Keys (so big you just barely see the Key), an original engraving by an artist no one here has heard of, an article on Grandma Moses torn out of a magazine (but why did you keep it in that big Georgia O'Keefe book?), and a flattened popcorn box on which someone has written "8-16-77". (Did he propose in the theater, did your parents let you go to a movie by yourself for the first time, or was it just your 120th viewing of "Star Wars"?)
What do I do with these things? Well, if there's a market for it, it goes into the Book Fair or onto our eBay pile. If not, I leave it in the book. I leave the roses and the palm leaves in the Family Bibles, too. In a book that big, what's one more leaf?


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Born in England, Norman R. Gulley, Ph.D., has written several adult Sabbath school Bible study guides, numerous scholarly articles and such popular books as Christ Our Refuge. Dr. Gulley is noted for his Christ-centered approach to all doctrine, especially last-day events. A professor of systematic theology, Dr. Gulley teaches at Southern Adventist University. He and his wife, Leona, live in Collegedale, Tennessee.


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BOSTON -- The defense and prosecution made appeals to fairness and common sense as they ended their arguments in the trial of three former state probation department officials accused of rigging hiring to give jobs to people with political connections.
Former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien and two of his former deputies, Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke III, have pled not guilty to charges they conspired to commit racketeering in connection with allegedly operating a criminal organization within the public safety agency and secretly giving out patronage jobs under the guise of a merit-based personnel policy.
"There is something disturbingly cynical about this prosecution," O'Brien's attorney Stellio Sinnis said Tuesday. He said, "You help the people you care about, and there's nothing revolutionary and nothing criminal about that."
Prosecutors said the patronage, which is not illegal in of itself, was kept secret even from Robert Mulligan, the chief justice of administration and management who signed off on the hires.
"That's not patronage. That's fraud, and it's bribery," prosecutor Karin Bell said. She said, "Fraud and bribery are not business as usual in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
Bell said O'Brien "gave" jobs to his ally Rep. Robert DeLeo for DeLeo to give to members of the House so they could distribute them to supporters in a bid to help DeLeo in his ultimately successful bid for the speakership.
"I mean gave. I mean Jack O'Brien abdicated complete hiring responsibility," Bell said, describing the arrangement as DeLeo "moonlighting as human resources personnel of the probation department" – an allegation DeLeo has denied in public statements.
Sinnis said if DeLeo had taken a bribe he would have been part of the trial, and said, "They're not here because they didn't do anything wrong and neither did Mr. O'Brien."
In a closing statement that seemed mainly geared toward minimizing the role of Tavares in the alleged scheme, attorney Brad Bailey decried allegations prosecutors made "about people not here to defend themselves."
"When they do that, what does that tell you about the integrity of their case against the three people who are here?" Bailey asked.
"The United States Attorney could not indict me or any other elected official because there was no evidence to warrant an indictment," DeLeo said in a statement Tuesday. He said, "In my campaign for Speaker, I never traded jobs for votes and no one could honestly have testified otherwise."
Sinnis argued the jury cannot convict because prosecutors never gave evidence about the many people who did not receive jobs because purportedly less qualified people were allegedly fraudulently hired.
"They're asking you to convict Liz, Billy and Jack because they hired qualified people," Sinnis said, noting that the defendants received "not one penny" according to the prosecution's case. He said "You cannot answer who the most qualified people are," and said determining the best candidate is a subjective analysis.
"Is Tom Brady the best quarterback in the NFL…?" Sinnis asked. He said, "Sports are driven by statistics and yet no one can agree who the best person is."
In a rebuttal, prosecutor Robert Fisher said people who weren't plugged in to a politician didn't even stand a chance at receiving a probation job.
"Who would really want to send an application into probation with these three at the helm?" asked prosecutor Robert Fisher. He said, "There was no one who got a fair shake unless they had a sponsor."
Sinnis also argued that Mulligan was well aware of what was happening, which means no fraud occurred, and said Mulligan made the same kind of patronage hires.
"Judge Mulligan's actions and his words tell you that he knew exactly what was going on," said Sinnis, who said the notion O'Brien falsely certified that his appointments were made in accordance with the Trial Court manual is meaningless. He said, "No one looked at this manual, ladies and gentleman. This is the biggest farce."
Burke's attorney John Amabile said there was nearly no evidence about his client and said patronage hiring has been a longstanding practice in the court system, and one that Mulligan knew about.
"Mulligan was well aware of what was going on here," Amabile said. He said, "It means there is no fraud. No fraud whatsoever."
"A lot of things that happened in the '40s, '50s and '60s don't happen now," said Fisher in his rebuttal.
In his fourth statement on the case in less than a week, DeLeo concluded, "The United States Attorney has knowingly mischaracterized legislators' testimony as being false merely because the facts did not support her case. What is, or at least should be, criminal is impugning the characters of accomplished and honorable public officials who have devoted their lives to public service on the testimony of a single immunized and non-credible witness."
The case will go to the jury Wednesday morning.
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BOSTON -- The defense and prosecution made appeals to fairness and common sense as they ended their arguments in the trial of three former state probation department officials accused of rigging hiring to give jobs to people with political connections.


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Publisher's Notebook: The candidate who can spell the name of every 80's sports car winsJOE MCQUAID
August 03. 2014 7:10PM
Fortunately, Boston.com, an online arm of the Boston Globe, spotlighted this serious issue and brought it to public attention.
In fact, it was the site's lead news item a couple of Sundays ago. As upset as I was that our own news organization didn't have this breaking story, I was excited to see that a major Boston news site was on top of it.
I was also impressed that a top New Hampshire Democrat, Kathy Sullivan, called out candidate Brown on this issue on her Twitter account, even though she also misspelled DeLorean.
Just when I think the news media and politicians have given up on the important stuff and are dwelling on frivolous things like government responsibility, health care costs and immigration, something like the "DeLorean issue'' pops up. My confidence is restored.
Let this be fair warning to candidates: The Union Leader and UnionLeader.com will be conducting pop-up spelling contests in future interviews and in debates on every level.
I am also pleased to report that the media have not lost faith in polling as another main means of filling up space and time. Some people think polls are not as crucial to understanding the issues as, say, actually reporting on the issues. But what do they know? They probably can't spell Edsel or Studebaker.
Granted, some polling is stupid and wasteful, such as when people are asked where they stand on frivolous things like government responsibility, health care costs and immigration.
But most of the time, polls are an outstanding way to find out which politician's name is better known (usually it's the one who is already in office) and which one has the most money. (You want to give money to the one with the most money, so that he or she will have more money and do well in the next poll.)
It is also very important to know if a candidate is now or ever was a member of the Communist Party or a resident of a state other than New Hampshire.
The voters might forgive the Commie part (especially if the candidate says he or she was just a dupe). But one thing the New Hampshire voter won't stand for is a candidate who comes from somewhere else.
That's because most of the voters moved here from somewhere else, and they know how to spell DeLorean.
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Stanczyk was a big Mozilla/Firefox browser user. On Mac or Windows it did not matter. So it was a shock that I switched to Chrome (Google's browser).
I did so mostly on Google's promise that "microdata" would be another widget that would greatly enhance the search experience for genealogy data. I waiting on that feature — still am waiting.
On Tuesday I mentioned Virtual Keyboard 1.45, for entering your diacriticals through your browser into say Ancestry.com. Today, I was reading Kathy Judge Nemaric's blog – "Dead Reckoning" [nice name for a genealogy blog] and she mentioned an extension to the Chrome Browser. It is called Ancestry Family Search Extension 2.4 .
Open up a new Tab (Ctrl-T works) and click on Chrome Web Store. In the "Search Store" field, type in "Ancestry Family Search" and press the Enter key to bring up the extension (see on the left).
Click on the Add to Chrome button and then click on the Install button in the dialog box that pops up to confirm your wish. Once you have installed the extensions into your Chrome browser, it will show like the following screen:
Now you are ready to reap the rewards of that hard work. Go to Ancestry.com and perhaps open up your family tree on an individual you are working on. Now your browser's address bar has a new "widget". Next to the STAR widget you have been using to Bookmark pages is a new widget shaped like a TREE.
See the red circle (and arrow)? Just click on that and it will bring up a new window on top the current TAB in your browser with (in my case) Tomasz Leszczynski result set from the Family Search databases. If you click on one result, then a new TAB will open to the exact record in Family Search.
This is a very nice synergy between the two websites. So I am thinking, that if Google produces their microdata widget, that 2012 will be the year of the widget in Genealogy and perhaps the year of the CHROME browser too.
There is one microdata Schema Explorer browser extension already in the Chrome Web Store. But you will want to wait for Google's which will use the website: http://historical-data.org/ . I am guessing Google will use this website to develop schemas to guide its browser.
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NH Reps. Kuster, Shea-Porter split votes as House rejects bid to curb NSAFrom Staff and Wire Reprts
July 24. 2013 9:27PM
WASHINGTON — A spy program that sweeps up vast amounts of electronic communications survived a legislative challenge in the House of Representatives Wednesday, the first move to curb the surveillance effort since a worker leaked details of its scope.
The House of Representatives voted 217-205 to defeat an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would have limited the National Security Agency's ability to collect electronic information, including phone call records.
The measure, which has been opposed by the White House and intelligence chiefs, was the first attempt to curb NSA spying since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked details about the extent of the agency's data collecting.
New Hampshire's Ann Kuster, a Democrat, was among those in Congress voting against the amendment.
"Rep. Kuster strongly believes we can and must protect both our national security and our constitutionally protected right to privacy, and she is committed to conducting vigorous oversight of our country's intelligence operations. She supports a bipartisan measure that would ban the NSA from acquiring the content of Americans' phone calls and emails without undermining counterterrorism tools that help keep our country safe," Kuster spokesman Rob Friedlander said in a statement Wednesday night.
Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, also a Democrat, voted yes on the amendment.
"As we have all seen in the last few months, government intelligence activities are in dire need of more transparency," she said in a statement. "I voted for this amendment because it would have helped keep our government accountable to the people and still allows for the collection of necessary information."


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August 13. 2014 9:57PM
Pick Walt: Let's have Havenstein
In the Republican primary for governor, Walt Havenstein is an obvious and standout choice.
Running a state is a difficult business, and Havenstein has the experience, judgment and temperament to do that job very well. As CEO of BAE Systems, New Hampshire's largest manufacturer, he cut expenses and shored up a flagging pension system. Do those sound like skills today's governor could use?
New Hampshire's pension system is underfunded by nearly $5 billion. Add other benefit liabilities and the figure exceeds $7 billion. No one talks about this, but it is a huge problem.
Last fall, Bloomberg ranked New Hampshire's as the No. 5 most under-funded state pension system in the country.
The state's general obligation debt exceeds $1 billion. It was just over $600 million in 2007.
Our economy, once the envy of New England, is struggling. High business taxes keep out-of-state companies from moving here, while misguided regulations keep health insurance and electricity costs astronomically high.
The state's rainy day fund is dangerously low, despite the state treasurer having warned for years that its neglect was a major red flag for bond rating agencies and a big risk for state services if revenues crashed.
Earlier this year, two credit rating agencies downgraded New Hampshire's bond rating outlook.
Financially, New Hampshire is in bad shape. Gov. Hassan has continued the status quo, actually advocating spending a recent small surplus rather than saving it as the treasurer recommended.
Havenstein has the business skills and the leadership ability needed to turn this ship around. He is already offering tax, legislative and regulatory reforms that would go a long way to improving the state's economic picture.
A Naval Academy graduate with a U.S. Marine Corps career before going into private business, Havenstein is not one to let problems fester while pretending to offer solutions.
It has been a long time since New Hampshire has had a take-charge governor who worked to put the state on rock-solid financial footing. We think Havenstein would be that kind of governor.


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PSNH fires back on coal-fired plantsBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 04. 2013 10:27PM
CONCORD — Public Service of New Hampshire has fired back at the Public Utilities Commission, in response to a PUC report issued in June calling on the regulated utility to get rid of its coal-fired power plants in the interest of lower cost electricity.
In its response filed on June 28, PSNH claims the commission report is "rife with unresolved issues ... and is marked by inaccurate or incomplete input, trivialization of certain legal considerations and inadequate analysis."
PSNH Associate General Counsel Robert Bersak pulls no punches as he challenges what he called "a number of unsupported conclusions."
In his 20-page response, Bersak writes that the PUC report glosses over 10 years of legislative mandates that resulted in PSNH retaining coal-fired plants in Bow and Newington; "trivializes" the region's overreliance on natural gas and the safety net the plants provide; and was surprisingly adversarial in tone.
He claims PSNH was shocked at the extent to which the PUC veered from the stated purpose of the investigation it opened in January, and writes, "Instead of advancing the issues toward resolution, the report has increased the level of controversy and turned a purportedly broad-based exploration of market conditions that could have led to a constructive dialogue into what will assuredly be a contentious, agenda-driven debate over the future of PSNH's generating assets."
The PUC opened the investigation in light of continued pressure on the PSNH energy supply charge, as more customers leave the regulated utility for unregulated energy service providers. That leaves a smaller customer base to absorb the costs of operating the coal-fired plants, including costly pollution control systems installed at Merrimack Station in Bow.
PSNH pays the same price as its competitors for energy on the open market, and could be charging the same lower prices, if not for the cost-recovery on the power plants and the impact of a shrinking customer base. In suggesting that both factors could be alleviated by divesting the power plants, the PUC is reflecting an opinion voiced by competitive suppliers and PSNH critics over the years.
Assumptions challenged
Bersak suggests that regulators have bought into that argument without the in-depth economic analysis that should have been conducted before reaching conclusions that reverse a decade of legislative and regulatory history.
"The report's conclusions are based on a single set of assumptions that are taken as factual outcome, ignoring myriad other plausible scenarios," he writes.
The report assumes natural gas will remain available at low cost for the foreseeable future, that customers will continue to abandon PSNH at current rates, that the fixed costs of the power plants will stay high forever, and that gas pipeline capacity into New England will be expanded by 2016. Bersak challenges each of those assumptions, dedicating significant space to an analysis of the natural gas market.
"There is no market evidence that producers are willing to foot the bill for new pipeline projects to New England," he writes, and no incentives for power plant owners to sign long-term contracts that would change that scenario.
He suggests a better approach would be to create a more level playing field between the regulated utility and its competitors by allowing PSNH to charge competitors market rates, not cost-only, for billing and administrative services; or by requiring competitive suppliers to pay their share of PUC operating expenses.
As regards to the report's proposals for divestiture of the power plants, Bersak rejects two of them out of hand — retirement and transfer to a newly created unregulated affiliate.
"Merely shuttering the plants will not eliminate the on-going costs, such as taxes, security, insurance, etc., and the remaining book value of the plants would have to be recovered from customers," he writes. "Instead of mitigating costs, retirement would merely exacerbate costs and is not worthy of further consideration."
The PSNH parent company, Northeast Utilities, is not interested in re-entering the unregulated market, according to Bersak. Northeast Utilities made the decision to exit the competitive energy business in early 2005 and "has no interest in re-entering that market at this time," he wrote.
That basically leaves selling the plants or keeping them under PSNH ownership as the only outcomes not likely to face a court challenge.
A process proposed
The New England Power Generators Association, a trade association representing competitive electric generating companies in New England, issued its own comments on the PUC report on July 1, suggesting a process that would lead to divestiture by December 2014.
"Allowing for PSNH to continue to receive guaranteed profits and cost recovery while consumers bear increased costs is a fundamentally flawed business model," said NEPGA President Dan Dolan. "The status quo simply perpetuates an unstable and unsustainable situation. We call on policymakers to immediately begin the process to transition to the competitive model every consumer in New Hampshire deserves."
Mike Skelton, a PSNH spokesman, said such a process is unnecessary, since the state Legislature just passed a bill, SB 191, to create a statewide energy strategy.
"We believe this is a much needed and thoughtful approach, and one that we look forward to participating in. With this energy strategy under development, it does not make sense to initiate a separate approach regarding PSNH's generation assets," he said. "These issues are intertwined and should be considered as part of an overall strategy on how best to provide customer's with reliable energy options and protect them from volatility with a safety net that is backed by PSNH's regulated generation."
President Obama's recently announced plan to seek tough limits on carbon emissions from power plants also plays into the picture.
"We'll have to wait and see how the new carbon emission plan takes shape to fully understand how it will impact PSNH's coal-fired generation," Skelton said. "The plants meet all current rules and standards, and they'll have to meet any tighter emissions standards in the future."


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November 17. 2013 2:12PM
(Reuters) - A Boeing 737-500 airliner crashed on landing in the Russian city of Kazan on Sunday, killing all 50 on board and highlighting the poor safety record of Russian airlines that ply internal routes across the world's largest nation.
The Tatarstan airlines flight from Moscow was trying to abort its landing in order to make a second approach, but it exploded on hitting the runway, killing all 44 passengers and six crew on board, emergency officials said.
The only picture shown from the scene on Russian television reports was a blurred still shot of the plane's fuselage with firefighters in the foreground, apparently after they had extinguished a fire at the scene.
Flight U363 took off from Moscow's Domodedovo airport at 6:25 pm (1425 GMT) and crashed just over an hour later, emergency officials said.
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Drew Cline: Andrew Hemingway, a young candidate with a future and a pastDREW CLINE
July 23. 2014 10:16PM
Republican candidate for governor Andrew Hemingway will have to read this column online. On Wednesday afternoon he flew to San Francisco to participate in the Coin Congress, a gathering of Bitcoin advocates. Its slogan: "A culture of individuals ready to break the mold." Hemingway presents his campaign the same way.
Gov. Maggie Hassan, whom he hopes to unseat, "has no plan, no agenda," he said in an interview on Wednesday. "Her State of the State speeches are all Skittles and rainbows."
Hassan's catch-phrase is "innovation," which Hemingway finds laughable. "Her idea of economic development is to get business people around a table like this and have a meeting," he said. The state needs ideas and leadership, not slogans and make-work meetings, says the 32-year-old.
"It's pretty simple what New Hampshire needs to get our economy started again," he said. He then presented a series of detailed white papers explaining major tax and regulatory reforms that he proposes.
First is scrapping the state's business enterprise tax, business profits tax and Medicaid enhancement tax and replacing them with a "business flat tax" of 2 percent, which would apply to nonprofits as well as for-profit businesses.
To reduce energy costs, which are hurting economic growth, Hemingway would abolish the Public Utilities Commission and devolve many regulatory responsibilities to local governments. To improve K-12 education, he would devolve the issue to local governments, letting them select their own curricula and run their own systems free of state involvement.
He supports right to work, opposes any state involvement in marriage, and says the state should impose no restrictions on gambling, letting localities decide the issue. Hemingway's agenda sounds more like a libertarian than a Republican one. On issue after issue, he says "this is about free markets" and "I believe in competition." To improve education, the economy, health care, the answer is the same: competition.
"That doesn't equal anarchy," he said. "It doesn't equal no government. It equals limited government. It's really that simple."
Passing such an agenda, though, would be anything but simple.
First, one has to get elected. Hemingway, the first Republican to file for governor this year, has seen the entire state GOP establishment line up behind former BAE Systems CEO Walt Havenstein. The former chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, Hemingway has always been anti-establishment, which has closed a lot of doors within the party. Then there are the questions, which helped derail his 2013 campaign for state GOP chairman, about his consulting practices. They might explain why he has few high-profile endorsements.
Hemingway ran Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign in New Hampshire. Afterward, in the fall of 2012, he ran a group called 4RG, billed as a group raising money to elect a Republican governor. Politico reported in October 2012 that 4RG was one of several conservative organizations raising money on the pitch of helping U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla. Politico called them "scams" because they sent no money to West, though their pitches asked for money to help West's reelection. One of the groups was 4RG.
Hemingway told Politico that he was focused on helping elect Ovide Lamontagne, that year's Republican candidate for governor. When the reporter asked about a 4RG email purporting to raise money for West, Hemingway said he had a deal to give the money to Western Representation PAC. That PAC's strategist, Dustin Stockton, told Politico, "We don't have a deal."
Recalling that episode and the small amount of money 4RG raised in 2012, some Republicans say privately that Hemingway has the right ideas, but he is not the right man for the job. However, there is a sense among some in the party that 2014 gives Hemingway a chance to prove he has grown up.
One test, I was told by a high-profile Republican, is whether he can make the switch from criticizing others to focusing on what he brings to the table. In a 90-minute interview Wednesday, Hemingway never mentioned opponent Walt Havenstein unless asked. He spoke of his own ideas, going negative only when talking about Gov. Hassan. It was, perhaps, a sign of a changing Andrew Hemingway.
If this is not Hemingway's year, well, he is only 32. For someone with Hemingway's ambition, winning the nomination for governor at that age would be a dream. But losing the nomination respectably wouldn't be so bad either.
Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His columns run on Thursdays. You can follow him on Twitter @Drewhampshire.


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Vermont man charged in woman's 'random' stabbing death in LittletonBy BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
January 30. 2013 8:42AM
In a crime that prosecutors were at a loss to explain Tuesday, a Vermont man was being held without bail, charged in Monday night's stabbing and slashing death of a 70-year-old multi-lingual veteran of the U. S. Foreign Service at a Littleton hotel.
Catherine "Kitty" Houghton, a Nevada native, was a 1960 graduate of the White Mountain School in Bethlehem, and was on the board of directors at the private boarding school at the time of her death. The Stanford University graduate was the White Mountain School's 2011 commencement speaker.
Rodney Hill, 37, of West Danville, is charged with second-degree murder in the killing. He appeared Tuesday afternoon at a 10-minute hearing before Littleton District Court Judge John P. Cyr, but entered no plea. Pleas to felony charges are not allowed in New Hampshire's lower courts. Hill was scheduled for a Feb. 5 probable cause hearing.
The results of an autopsy were not available late Tuesday, but Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell, the prosecutor, said after the hearing that she believed Hill "stabbed and slashed" Houghton, shortly before 8 p.m. Monday in what Morrell said was a "public area" of the Hampton Inn off Route 302 in a heavily-traveled commercial district about a mile from downtown Littleton.
After being summoned, police encountered Hill outside the building and took him into custody. They then found the critically-injured Houghton inside.
She was transported to Littleton Regional Hospital where she died from her wounds. She had been stabbed in the neck and torso, according to Morrell. There was no known connection between Hill and Houghton, Morrell said, adding that investigators also had yet to learn why they were in the hotel Monday night.
Asked if the Attorney General's office had established a motive, Morrell replied, "Not at this time. It appears to be random."
Yellow police tape cordoned off much of the Hampton Inn Monday night and Tuesday as investigators did their work inside.
Morrell presented the court with alternative theories of second-degree murder against Hill, saying he had either "knowingly" or "recklessly" caused Houghton's death. The charge that's eventually brought forward may be determined by a Grafton County Superior Court grand jury when it considers an indictment in the case, Morrell said.
Hill was represented by New Hampshire public defender Marcie Hornick. He answered "yes" in a low voice when Cyr asked him twice if he understood that anything he said at the hearing could be used against him later.
Information that administrators posted Tuesday on the school's website described the impact of losing Houghton.
"The White Mountain School community is deeply saddened by the loss of Catherine "Kitty" Houghton. … She will long be remembered for her kindness, love of music, keen intellect and adventurous spirit. She lived life to its fullest, pursuing each next step with curiosity and joy. Through her words, actions and deeds she has inspired countless others to do the same."
The statement said Houghton was a strong student and athlete at The White Mountain School, formerly St.-Mary's-in-the-Mountains, whose love of music, the mountains and her St. Mary's friends continued to play a prominent role throughout her life.
After graduating from The White Mountain School, Houghton earned her bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and later her master's and doctorate degrees from Stanford University. She served in the Peace Corps in Nepal and was, for a time, an international officer for the Bank of America, administrators said in their message.
Houghton spent most of her professional career as a commercial counselor in the global business arm of the U.S. Foreign Service. She served all over the world, including Colombia, Austria, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Germany and Canada.
She spoke 14 languages, with fluency in German, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Nepali and Bengali, according to the school.
After retirement, Houghton remained an avid hiker, skier and musician, singing in several choirs, and she obtained her pilot's license. She volunteered to fly for Angelflight, a nonprofit that provides air transportation and supplies for financially distressed people in medical need. She had been a member of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, since 1996.


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March 27. 2013 8:55PM
Fired Manchester officer charged in Bedford hit and run to see pension
MANCHESTER - Stephen Coco, the Manchester police sergeant who was fired and arrested following a hit-and-run accident on Friday in Bedford, won't getting his pension right away, but once he does he could be getting about $37,100 a year.
Pensions continue under the New Hampshire Retirement System, even if a member is arrested and convicted of a crime, said system spokesman Marty Karlon.
But other benefits aren't available. Because Coco didn't retire from his job, he won't be eligible for benefits such as a medical subsidy or survior benefit, Karlon said.
And he will have to wait to get his pension. Coco is 41; no one is eligible for pension benefits until the age of 45, Karlon said.
He had been with the city for 17 years and 8 months before his termination on Monday. Based on his departing annual salary of $84,000, Coco's pension will amount to about $37,100 a year.


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March 04. 2013 12:33PM
Woman attacked in alley near downtown Manchester club
- A 26-year-old woman was attacked early Saturday morning in an alley near Canal and Depot streets by a man she thought was helping her locate a thief who stole her wallet
The incident happened about 2 a.m. The woman told police someone stole her wallet while she was at Drynk Nightclub, 20 Old Granite St., and she went outside in search of the thief.
She encountered a man in the alley near Old Granite and Depot streets, nearer to Canal Street. Initially, she told investigators she was not alarmed because she believed the man was helping her in the search.
As they walked back toward the nightclub, however, the man grabbed her by the neck and dragged her under a trailer parked in the alley.
The man choked her with his hands and sexually assaulted her. The woman fought back and during the struggle managed to kick him, causing him to run off.
The assailant is described as a Hispanic or bi-racial man, 20 to 30 years old, with a medium complexion and short Afro-style haircut. He was 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-7 and weighed between 155 and 175 pounds. He wore a red and white hooded sweatshirt.
Lt. Maureen Tessier said detectives are continuing to investigate the incident and urge anyone with information about the attack to call police at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash awards may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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Before Amy Speace embarked on a career in music, the stage called her name. That's a good fact to keep in mind when listening to the actor-turned-folk singer's latest album, How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat.
It's beneficial to have a physical copy of the album in your hands as you listen because the liner notes are essential to understanding how the project came together. Each song is based on a Shakespearian quotation — and on the lyric sheet, the Bard provides an epigraph before each song he inspired. Amy Speace spoke with NPR's Jacki Lyden; to hear their conversation, click the audio link on this page.
Just a reminder, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. And it's time now for music.
AMY SPEACE: (Singing) We are the drunks and the dreamers, the criers and the cheaters, the ones you'll find down on our knees.
LYDEN: This is singer/songwriter Amy Speace. It's a song called "The Fortunate Ones," the first track from her new album, "How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat." Now, this is one of those records that benefits from having a physical copy of it in your hand as you listen - none of that downloading stuff - because the liner notes are essential to understanding how this project came together.
Amy Speace wrote each song based on a Shakespearian quotation. And on the lyrics sheet, the bard provides an epigraph for each song he inspires.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as King Henry V) We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
SPEACE: (Singing) We are the fortunate ones, the fuel in this crazy machine.
LYDEN: Amy Speace is no stranger to Shakespeare. Before she embarked on a career in music, the stage called her name.
SPEACE: I wanted to be the Emma Thompson of my generation. And I went to Amherst College, and I was really obsessed with literature and the theater. And I ended up going to New York City right after I graduated and studied acting with the National Shakespeare Conservatory. We did a thing called "Shakespeare in the Parking Lot."
LYDEN: Everything on, of course, the great thing of the Delacorte...
SPEACE: Exactly.
LYDEN: ...Theater every summer in Central Park, "Shakespeare in the Park."
SPEACE: Exactly. It was like the low-rent version. But it was really fun because we did it at the Lower East Side on a parking lot on Delancey Street, and there was a drag queen that, you know, would rollerblade through my death scene when I was playing Juliet, things like that.
So I taught myself to play guitar, and I had always been a musician and a singer but hadn't been a songwriter, but I always wrote poetry and plays. And somewhere in that period of time, something burst inside of me, and I started writing songs. And soon thereafter, I was playing shows in New York City, and I was discovered by Judy Collins. And she offered me a record deal, and then it was time for me to choose. So I kind of put away the acting and the Shakespeare to, you know, pursue the life of a folk singer.
LYDEN: And throughout this interview, we're going to hear from actors at Washington, D.C.'s wonderful Shakespeare Theatre Company. We've asked them to come in. They'll read the quotation that inspired each song that we're going to hear. Let's begin with actress Erin Copp(ph) in the role of Desdemona from "Othello," and she's reading us into your song "Bring Me Back My Heart."
ERIN COPP: (as Desdemona) My mother had a maid called Barbary. She was in love, and he she loved proved mad and did forsake her. She had a song of "Willow," an old thing 'twas but it expressed her fortune, and she died singing it. That song tonight will not go from my mind.
SPEACE: (Singing) She sings herself to sleep when she's alone, bring me back my heart. Bring me back my heart.
Wow, that just almost made me cry.
LYDEN: You're sitting there full of emotion. We're listening to "Bring Me Back My Heart." How does the quotation relate to what you were writing?
SPEACE: I had played Desdemona. And I didn't want to write music to "Willow," that song that she quotes. For me, Desdemona is somebody who loves this man who just is treating her terribly. And there's something in there that she wants it to work so much that she's going to believe that this love is going to carry her through, even as he's killing her.
And I had this image of this woman whose lover has left, you know, potentially maybe somebody who went off to war and died and never came back, and she was going to wait it out. My grandmother was somebody who - she lost her husband in the first 10 years of their marriage, and she never met another man. And when she died at 104 years old, she died with his name on her lips...
LYDEN: Yeah. Wow.
SPEACE: ...I'm coming home, Bob. And I thought of her waiting her whole life to see my grandfather again. And I feel like that's where Desdemona is, so I wanted to write that song.
LYDEN: Wow.
SPEACE: (Singing) She remembers every whisper promise that was shared, False to dreaming, repeating each one like a prayer. With beads she counts through fingers thin as (unintelligible). Bring me back my heart. Bring me back my heart.
LYDEN: So this is your sixth album, your first to draw on this Shakespearian background. Why now? You've been performing quite a while.
SPEACE: Yeah. It's always been in my bloodstream, but I think I was very intentional about keeping these two lives very separate. And then last year, I ended up losing my voice for about two months.
LYDEN: You lost your voice.
SPEACE: Mm-hmm.
LYDEN: Now, this had to be an incredibly disruptive thing. What happened?
SPEACE: It was terrifying. You know, honestly, I woke up one day, and I couldn't talk, and it didn't come back, and it didn't come back. So I got under the care of a doctor, and it turned out to be a lot of stress. But I was told to be on vocal rest for two months, which, as a singer, that's how I make my living.
And so I was going through this period of, like, what if this is it? What if I have to do something else? And in that time period, I just started reading a lot. For some reason, I had the collected work sitting on my desk, and I started rereading these plays. It doesn't mean that, you know, the voices inside your head don't go quiet when you go quiet. So some of my own lyrics were kind of coming back at me, and they were talking to some of these snippets of Shakespearian dialog.
LYDEN: My guest is Amy Speace, and her new album is a collection of songs inspired by Shakespeare. It's called "How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat." Let's hear another example. This is actor Nick Dillenburg, and he's playing King Lear. A few excerpts from that play, and they lead into the title track of this album, "How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat."
NICK DILLENBURG: (as King Lear) Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks. When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
SPEACE: (Singing) Red sky ahead of the morning sun. And I've heard it said that's when trouble comes.
LYDEN: Ooh, wow. This is just another really powerful piece. Why did you choose this as the title track?
SPEACE: I felt like it was - it says everything. It's the umbrella. The whole record, to me, is almost like an old-school navigation journal - how to get through something that seems so impossible to get through in order to survive and thrive. So, you know, I see this record almost like the stages of grief - letting go of a love or letting go of a life or letting go of a dream, and then coming to the other side of it a better person for having gone through it.
SPEACE: (Singing) Teach me how to sleep, how to sleep in a stormy boat.
It's not about the storm, and it's not about the water. It's really about the boat, the shell of the thing that you are and that's raging, how to sit in grief and wait it out because it'll change.
LYDEN: Well, let's turn to one of Shakespeare's great tragic heroines, and that would be Juliet, "Romeo and Juliet," and here, again, is actress Erin Copp and the song, "Hesitate."
COPP: (as Juliet) Come, gentle night, come, loving black-browed night, give me my Romeo. And when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
SPEACE: That passage, I love the end of that: He will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun. I have bought the mansion of a love and not yet possessed it. That's like my favorite passage in Shakespeare. And Nielson Hubbard and I, the producer, wrote this song together. And I spoke these lines to him. I said to him: I think we need to end this record with this, whatever this is going to be, you know, this idea of somebody just looking down on their life from the stars and knowing, you know, it's all going to be okay.
And to me, the end of this record is at the end, we have ourselves. And that's good enough that even with all of this pain and joy, that in the end, what we've got are our stories.
LYDEN: That's Amy Speace. Her new album is called "How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat," and you can hear a few songs on our website, nprmusic.org. Amy Speace, farewell. God knows when we shall meet again.
SPEACE: Thanks for having me, Jacki.
LYDEN: It's been wonderful. Thank you.
SPEACE: (Singing) In my dream, I can fly, above this house into the sky.
LYDEN: And for Sunday, that's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Check out our weekly podcast. Search for WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on iTunes or on the NPR smartphone app. Click on programs and scroll down, or follow me on Twitter @nprjackilyden. We're back on the radio next weekend. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great week.
SPEACE: (Singing) Tell the truth of a heart so strong that beats and beats, never stops... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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There were 54 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at8 a.m. Saturday. At that time, there were 1,382 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
There were 54 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at8 a.m. Saturday. At that time, there were 1,382 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Robbery: A man was working at a store in the 2100 block of East Fremont Street about 8 p.m. Friday when someone approached him from behind and put a gun to his head. The person led the clerk to the cash register and took an unknown amount of cash before fleeing on foot. The robber was described as a black man 25 to 30 years old with black clothing and a black handgun.
Burglary arrest: Police arrested Rotheree Woodmore, 23, on suspicion of burglary and possession of stolen property after he ransacked a home in the 200 block of East Arcade Street about 7:30 p.m. Friday. A 23-year-old woman called police and hid in her closet after Woodmore allegedly used a screwdriver to remove an air conditioning unit and gain entry to the home. Upon discovering the woman, Woodmore said he was there to get a bicycle he left at the house. He took his bicycle and left but was apprehended nearby.
Robbery arrest: An 81-year-old woman awoke to find three people in her bedroom about 10:45 p.m. Friday in the 3300 block of East Lafayette Street. The intruders were armed with a shotgun and threatened to kill her if she didn't hand over her purse. The woman complied and the robbers fled on foot. Officers spotted three people matching the description of the intruders near Golden Gate Avenue and Main Street and found the victim's belongings in their possession. Police arrested Genoveva Alvarado, 18, and two male juveniles on suspicion of robbery and other crimes.
Stolen vehicle arrest: Police arrested Juan Mateos, 19, on suspicion of vehicle theft after spotting him and another man in a stolen car in the 100 block of Jamestown Street about 7:15 p.m. Friday. Howard Sweat, 18, was also arrested for an outstanding warrant.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report for the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 86 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Saturday, including four vehicle accidents, 81 medical calls and one structure fire.


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Created by PNB Founding Artistic Director Kent Stowell and world-famous author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, this masterful Nutcracker production is like no other in the world. With live orchestra, magnificent sets and costumes, and over 200 roles danced by professional dancers and students, nothing fills hearts with holiday magic like PNB's Nutcracker!
"From the absolute charm of seeing all the adorable kids in velvet dresses and shiny shoes to the mouth dropping awe of the truly magnificent set, we were as swept away as the 8-year-olds. Nutcracker is all the good parts of Christmas…It's a great holiday date for couples, obviously a delight and treat for children and a wholly elegant way to deck the halls. It's never too late to start a tradition and we seriously suggest you go." --seattlest
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Choreography: Kent Stowell
Scenic and Costume Design: Maurice Sendak
Lighting Design: Randall G. Chiarelli
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes, with 1 intermission


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Add ncWorldmap scale value
because the GameToolTip is rewritten, the quest related information is dropped in the process making it hard for a leveling character. n this thread(http://www.tukui.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=491) on TukUI's technical forum is a "patch" that addresses this problem but it probably needs some code review / cleanup / enhancement. ne feature that I would probably like to see is integration of QueTip which makes some of the tooltips more compact; one thing that don't know if we still need is the info: "Quest Item" if it already tells you for which quest that item is for and how many you already have.
Can your add clock on the panel, and also friend/guild addons?
Take a look at aTotemBar if u wanna add it in