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Short film by Farmington students on losing loved one to debut tonightBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent March 07. 2013 12:48AM
From left, eighth-grader Jack Woolworth, 14, of Farmington, seventh-graders Zack Hart, 13, of Farmington, and Katelyn Yazinka, 13, of Middleton, and district videographer Brian Chagnon prepare to film another scene for a short movie "Lose Me at the Dance" in a classroom at Henry Wilson Memorial School in Farmington Monday afternoon. (John Quinn/Union Leader Correspondent)
FARMINGTON - The next big thing on the silver screen or behind a viral clip online may be taking its first steps toward the silver screen in the halls of the Henry Wilson Memorial School.
"Lose Me at the Dance," a film written, performed and produced by middle school students from Farmington and Middleton, is scheduled to premiere tonight at 6 at the school.
This is the fourth year that students have produced a short film, and the extracurricular project has grown in popularity. District videographer Brian Chagnon said crowds have grown over the years, from parents to area residents and lately including a few people from around the Seacoast.
"It's interesting who shows up," Chagnon said. Last year, students produced a film about cyber-bullying which was eventually used to help spread awareness about cyber-bullying in other areas of the state, he said.
Chagnon, whose usual job is to record school meetings and operate the local community education channel, has worked in Farmington for the past five years and has been making videos since 1999. His love of movies makes it easy to work with students who are interested in making their own.
Chagnon said he's working with a cast and crew of about 15 students this year.
"They go from page to screen," he said. Some students are surprised how much goes into a movie.
Katelyn Yazinka, 13, a seventh-grade student from Middleton, said she enjoys learning more about the technological side of filmmaking, especially how to use specific camera angles to enhance a shot and how sound is adjusted during the process.
While she was interested in making movies before, Yazinka said this is the first time she's been part of one.
"I didn't expect it to be so fun," Yazinka said.
Eighth-grader Jack Woolworth, 14, of Farmington, said the small cast and crew has quite a bit of fun - even when delving into serious issues like cyber-bullying or dealing with the loss of a close friend or loved one.
"Once people see how much fun we have during filming this, they'll like the movie," Woolworth said.
Chagnon said this year's movie is just under an hour, but past films ran for about 35 to 45 minutes. He anticipates the project to continue growing in scope and popularity.
"They're already hitting me up this year with what they want to do next year," Chagnon said.


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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Mike Gillislee ran for a career-high 146 yards and two touchdowns, bringing No. 10 Florida to life in the second half as the Gators beat fourth-ranked LSU 14-6 Saturday.
Led by Gillislee and a dominant defense, Florida's grind-it-out victory provided a signature win for coach Will Muschamp in his second season in Gainesville. It was the program's first win against a ranked team since beating rival Georgia in 2010.
Linebacker Jon Bostic, safety Matt Elam and defensive end Lerentee McCray provided the big plays on defense. Gillislee once again carried the load on offense.
Together, they wore down the Tigers (5-1, 1-1) in the second half - no surprise since the Gators (5-0, 4-0) have been doing that all season. Florida, which trailed 6-0 at halftime, also came from behind to beat Texas A&M and Tennessee on the road last month.
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Miguel de la Madrid, Mexico's president as the country struggled through an economic crisis in the 1980s, died Sunday. He was 77.
Family members told CNN that the former president died Sunday morning in Mexico City. He had been hospitalized to treat complications of pulmonary emphysema. Without offering details, his office said the cause of death was a "long illness."
De la Madrid inherited an economic crisis when he took office in 1982. During his six-year term, he implemented an "anti-crisis plan" that focused on austerity.
He was in office when a massive earthquake struck central Mexico in 1985 and became a focal point of national and international criticism of the government's response to the disaster, which killed thousands of people and devastated the country's capital.
De la Madrid "faced harsh adversities during his tenure," Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in a statement expressing his condolences Sunday, describing the former president as "a Mexican with a deep commitment to the country."


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Please let me know your address and when you want to play. I am available this Friday and Sat.
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LIT brings home two silver medals from SkillsUSA contest
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Two Lamar Institute of Technology students earned medals at the National SkillsUSA Competition held June 24-28 in Kansas City, Mo.
Kenneth Ross, a utility line technology student, earned a silver medal in job skill demonstration open. In this contest, competitors demonstrate and explain an entry-level job skill. His advisor was Rusty Koenig, program director of utility line technology.
John Sterling, a computer networking and troubleshooting technology major, earned a silver medal in computer maintenance. He was asked to identify and repair computer hardware malfunctions, and also took the A+ Certification exam. Sterling's faculty advisor was Tim Storbeck, Instructor II of computer networking and troubleshooting technology.
LIT took 14 students to the national contest. Students earned the right to attend the competition by winning gold medals in the state competition, held in the spring.


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Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair
The Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair for grades 6-8 was held May 1 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Worcester was well represented with 99 projects from 12 elementary schools and 4 middle schools. This is a very competitive event with students from Bancroft, St Bernadette's, West Boylston, Hopkinton, Shrewsbury and Westborough among the participating schools.
Congratulations to the WPS students listed below (and their teachers!) The awards they received qualify them for the State Science Fair on June 3rd.
Second Place Awards
Sullivan Middle - Bobby Blute - WI - NOT
Sullivan Middle - Tiffany Ralwston - Pascal Power
Third Place Awards
Thorndyke - Kiera Gentilucci - Which Beverages Affect Tooth Decay the Most?
Worcester Arts Magnet - Vafa Soheyli and Ranna Soheyli - The Hover Train
Flagg St - Sophia Guerra and Emily Schoen - Tap Into Your Memory: Related vs Unrelated
Worcester Arts Magnet - Lauren Popinchalk - The Sunrise Alarm Clock
Honorable Mention
Midland - Daniel Arnold - Supercooling
Sullivan Middle - Nexus Attiogbe - Which Solution Produces the Most Gas Through Electrolysis?
THANK YOU to the following schools for supporting their students and sending projects to this event:
- Worcester East Middle
- Sullivan Middle
- Forest Grove Middle
- UPCS Middle
- Burncoat Prep
- Heard St
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- West Tatnuck
- Worcester Arts Magnet
- Canterbury
- Chandler Elementary
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What have you done for your basement lately? It serves you faithfully, accepting outgrown winter boots, malfunctioning table lamps, your grandmother's tarnished tea service. Maybe it's thank-you time.
Lots of homeowners are doing exactly that, lavishing the home's traditionally forgotten space with main-floor amenities including entertainment centres, kitchenettes, upscale home offices and bathrooms with all the fixings.
"This is really valuable real estate. It can be something special in your home," says Norm Lecuyer, owner of Just Basements. An edgy project of undulating lines, niches and sculpted decorative panels netted him the basement category prize ("basement" is such a dreary, outmoded word) at the recent Housing Design Awards organized by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders' Association.
"As the value of people's homes increases, we're seeing people putting more money into the basement," he continues. "Our average job is $65,000 to $70,000, but people are also spending over $100,000 on a regular basis."
And why not? You can gain hundreds of extra square feet of living space - luxurious living space if you do it right - for far less than an addition would cost.
Lecuyer says that much of his work is in older areas like the Glebe and Westboro where people have set down roots and want to maximize their living space.
And while head room can be an issue in these older homes, the cost of digging down can still be viable compared to the cost of an addition or a new home. In New York and London, where land prices are exorbitant and space at a premium, Lecuyer says homeowners are doing million-dollar basements, in some cases burrowing down two storeys.
Daylight would be an issue two storeys down, but the pros say it's not in most cases.
Jason Labelle, of Dalton Distinctive Renovations, a finalist at the recent awards, says bungalow owners sometimes install sun tubes through closets and into the basement. Basically a skylight with a reflective tube, they carry daylight through structural barriers.
Gerhard Linse, of Gerhard Linse Design & Building Consultants, advocates replacing standard basement windows with deeper and wider ones up to three-by-six feet to give that above-ground feel. Excavation will usually be required around the new windows, but terracing, including the use of mulch and water-absorbing shrubbery, will prevent water from pooling and entering the basement.
He does, however, caution that a reputable designer and contractor are essential in preventing both foundation damage while excavating and the water problems that can afflict basements.
Linse also points out that a well-outfitted basement can serve as a rental suite, bringing in extra cash for the homeowner. The City of Ottawa encourages secondary suites as part of its densification drive and the suite can later revert to a fully equipped entertainment centre or other facility for the homeowner.
Good basement designs aren't necessarily easy. In the case of Lecuyer's award-winning project, those neat curving lines and the coffered ceiling and irregular walls were dictated by existing posts, ductwork and other obstacles common in basements.
"It grew out of a difficult space to work with," he says. "We finally said, 'Instead of trying to keep all our angles and lines regular, how about random?' So we wound up with 150 linear feet of undulations."
The design created sight lines that make you want to enter and engage the space, which the client wanted as a multi-purpose entertainment area with pool and card tables, home theatre and bar.
Emile Salem, of Ottawa Home Improvements, says that while business is always cyclic, he was busier than usual this year with basement renos. "A lot of basements were finished in the 1970s with panelling and shag rugs. It was time to update them."
Much of Salem's lower-level work is in newer homes. Their basements typically have nine-foot ceilings and generous windows but the area is unfinished. After a few years of home ownership, owners say "let's have some fun" and in go the home theatres, wet bars and exercise rooms.
Bathrooms are big as well, says Salem. "They've retrofitted the ensuite with a Roman tub, so now they put the Jacuzzi and hot tub downstairs."
He adds that while we're uneasy about going too avant garde on the more public main floor, we're quite happy to get a little edgy below grade.
So get out the thank-you card and let your imagination run riot.
1. Hobby rooms: For the young and adult hobbyist, basements afford the space for long workbenches, display areas and storage space. Avoid carpeting because paint and other hobby materials can stain.
2. Wainscotting: Brings out the potential cosiness of basements without breaking the bank.
3. Fireplaces: Try a linear, wall-mounted fireplace instead of the traditional hearth. It adds flair to the fire and makes the room feel longer.
4. LED lighting: It's the future of residential lighting, including in the basement. Adaptable and using very little electricity, it's ideal for the nooks, crannies and wall niches that make a basement homey.
5. Guest suites: Full-on facilities for visitors including hotel-like mini fridges, coffee machines and even kitchenettes as well as luxury bathrooms with walk-in glass showers.
Bling basement
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Wayne Edward Lockmiller
October 5, 1951 - December 1, 2012
Wayne Edward Lockmiller, age 61, died peacefully in his sleep on
December 1st, 2012. Wayne was
born in Illinois at Scotts Air Force Base. In his later years he followed in his father's footsteps and became a load
master in the Air Force at Norton Air Force Base
serving during the Vietnam War. While serving his country he made many friends in which remain a
loving part of his life to this day. He initiated reunions in several
different locations over the last few years of his life. And to those friends you have to know how much he loved you all.
Wayne was the biggest San
Francisco Giants fan ever and was so excited to see the orange and black win 2 World Series in his short life. His most prized possession is his daughter, Lindsay Megan as she is the brightest light in his life.
Wayne is survived by his loving wife Denise Lockmiller who
shared his passion for the Giants, his daughter Lindsay Megan Lockmiller, his brothers Larry, Gene (Dede) and Ernie
(Charlene). He is also survived by nieces Jaimie and Gina, and nephews Joey and Nick. He is preceded in death by his parents Elisha and Mary Lockmiller as well as his oldest sister Mary Jean Lovecchio.
Our family is sure that he is educating people in Heaven on his musical knowledge from Dick Dale, Willie Nelson and the
Marshall Tucker Band to name a few.
Wayne's service will be held at The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton, 2737 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA on January 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Celebration of Life will continue in the church hall immediately after the service. In lieu of flowers, please send donations in his name to The American Heart Association.


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Cannot condone riding at night, on a highway even, with no lights or indicators. How he could even see the road is beyond me. Saw one of his night riding videos, very short. He probably got clipped by a vehicle coming behind him.Jrobiso2 said:Martin Hutchinson, a british environment activist, has been travelling Europe on a trike with no money, taking films of environmental disasters. He sleeps on/under and next to his trike every day.His videos are on YouTube.


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(Jan. 10, 2005) - The Lady Bucs basketball squad looked to extend their winning streak to two straight tonight as they hosted the Western Carolina Catamounts (7-8, 3-5 SoCon) in Southern Conference action from Memorial Center. With two Bucs recording double-doubles, including a second straight game with ETSU forward Tiffani Mayes (Sumter, S.C.) scoring at least 30 points, the Bucs captured the 84-68 SoCon win. Guard B.J. Banjo (
The home squad took the early lead opening the contest on a 19-11 run through the first ten minutes of play capped off by a Mayes lay-up and Angela Estes (
The first half was highlighted with 14 ETSU point in the paint compared to the 12 of the Catamounts, while the Bucs led the majority of the half, as there was just one lead change throughout the first 20 minutes of play. Mayes led all scorers at the break with 18, while Candace Gibson (Warner Robbins,
The ETSU offense started the second half much as they ended the first, on a tear led by Mayes, and the hot hand of Banjo. With a 16-2 run, beginning with a Banjo three, the Bucs extended their lead to 54-31 with just over 15 minutes remaining in the second half. The offensive effort of the Bucs was to strong for the Catamount defense to match with the lead was as high as 27 with seven minutes remaining in the half. Although a strong 23-14 Catamount run to end the half neared the score at 84-68, the Bucs held on for their second straight home, and SoCon victory.
"I was very proud of the way our team came out tonight. Especially our effort to begin the second half," Lady Bucs head coach Karen Kemp said. "We knew that if we could get the ball inside to Tiffani (Mayes) and Candace (Gibson) our offense would take over just as they did in a great win for our team."
Mayes posted 30 points and 13 rebounds, her third double-double of the year, while Banjo tallied the career-best 10 assists and 18 points including a 4-7 tally from beyond the arc. The Bucs three-point shooting was on fire tonight, 7-17, with Holly Moring (
ETSU shot 46 percent from the field, compared to the 35 percent of the Catamounts. Rebounding was a strength in the win for the Bucs as they out rebounded WCU 47 to 37 while both teams committed 22 turnovers for the game.
ETSU will be back in action this Saturday, Jan. 15, when they make the short trip to face the Appalachian State Mountaineers. Game time is set for 1:00 p.m. with pre-game and play-by-play analysis on the Buccaneer Sports Network beginning at 12:00 p.m.


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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The 2013 Capital One All-District Baseball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Farmingdale State junior starting pitcher Michael Dolce (St. James, N.Y.) has been named First Team Academic All-District - District 3 (N.Y.).
Academically, Dolce is a Criminal Justice major and holds an impressive 3.73 cumulative grade point average.
Athletically, he leads the team with a 5-0 record and a 0.57 earned run average. Dolce has allowed three earned runs in 47.2 innings pitched, while striking out 6.61 batters a game. He is ranked second in the nation for earned run average this season.
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Context: Customer Data's Secret Sauce
Jan 31, 2013 5:00 AM PT
I had a call today from someone at a company that made a technology that helped inside sales people target the exact right prospects from a list of leads. She said she was using this technology to make the call, and assured me that this technology could make a big difference to the inside sales organization in my company.
Which is just swell. The problem is that I don't work in sales, let alone inside sales. I don't make decisions about the technology used by this department I don't work in.
Basically, this technology designed to target prospects picked me, an act which would be described by the kids these days as a "fail" (which is short for "failure," if I'm not mistaken).
The hapless caller lacked a couple of things -- the ability to check job titles, the sense to end a call when it was clearly starting to enter a death spiral, etc. The basic thing she lacked, though, was context.
Why was I in the system? (Answer: my name had been harvested from a list of people at a trade show.) What was my job title? What other information about me is available? And, most importantly, does any of this suggest that I'm in sales, or that I'm a decision-maker about sales technology?
Context Is King
Context is the framework on which all your customer data is assembled. It helps you understand the who and the why of that data, and thus provides the real picture of the customer. Context, though, is often poorly cared for in today's technology; we've become so concerned with collecting data that the circumstances in which it was collected can get lost, leading to uses of that information that confound and confuse potential customers.
Even in CRM applications, the context must often be inferred by the contents of the customer record. The beginning of the relationship is well documented, as are sales activities. Spotting events or changes in behavior, however, that alter how the customer views the relationship or which change their buying behavior is not that easy.
Unless you can identify those changes, it's likely you'll continue with the same tactics that have worked in the past. These can be ineffective and even infuriating; the customers expect you to know them and that means you know how information about them fits into their stories.
This one of the perils of the "big data" era. We can get so fixated on collecting and controlling data, and paying attention to the data as an aggregated whole, that it becomes easy to miss a key element that explains why customers are doing things, and which should determine what the company's response should be.
There's Data, and Then There's the Story
At that point, you're back to paying attention to the real story in the data. Doing that still requires a smart person. Technology can help only so much. We're getting closer to technologies that can identify those context-establishing data, but much of this process must be intuitive.
Without context, the data that you think may identify buying behaviors may mislead you and waste your sales staff's time.
I'm thinking about a time when I sent flowers to someone who worked for a sales analytics vendor. The vendor saw that I'd hit their website and clicked around, and it used that information as the impetus for a call from its inside sales team. Imagine the salesman's response when I told them I'd used their website to send flowers, not to research a purchase.
On a bigger scale, specific events that affect a market can change the context of your data. For example, a natural disaster or a market crash could dramatically affect your customers' ability to buy, or to even consider a purchase. Taking such market-changing events into consideration is not going to be done automatically by technology. It has to be done by managers, marketers and sales people.
We talk a lot about having a 360-degree view of the customer. This is a great aspiration, but if you don't know where data fits on the compass, the story you create to explain your customer is going to be incorrect.


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On the whole, the App Store is awash with cuddly, sweet, garishly coloured applications, featuring characters that you'd rather hug than dismember. And even when you're asked to commit some kind of genocide - usually on the pig population - they laugh about it, chortling away as you turn them into gammon.
So, it's a welcome change when there's a game that just so happens to cram as much gore, misery and darkness onto an iDevice as it can. And has the unnerving talent to scare the willies out of you, your family and your entire postcode at the same time. Plus, because of EA Mobile's Easter promotion, it's currently only 59p...
Dead Space
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The first Dead Space game on console was somewhat of a sleeper hit. To begin with, it was originally intended to be for the first Xbox console (sans 360). But, because of the many delays along the way, its hype had faded by the time of release, and if it wasn't for word of mouth from gamer to gamer, it may never have created any kind of fan base. We certainly wouldn't have seen a sequel, and definitely wouldn't have been treated to what is the most frightening game available on an iDevice.
At its core, Dead Space is a survival horror game, featuring cunning use of ambient darkness and enough cinematic jumps and bumps to make it possibly the scariest experience you could have with an iPhone or iPad. At times, it's so tense that it's hard to play it for a particularly long period, and while EA Mobile advises that you wear headphones for the best experience, that may be just a step too far for some. As it is, those with a particularly nervous disposition would be well advised to keep a spare pair of underwear to hand.
At Pocket-lint, we've always been massive fans of the console versions of the franchise, so it is highly commendable that the plotline for the app edition is completely new. You don't get to play as Isaac Clarke - the hero of the father titles - but as Codename: Vandal, who has been sent to a mining station to sabotage it on behalf of a bunch of religious zealots.
Of course, your actions end up releasing a swarm of Necromorphs and the whole thing goes tits up. Cue creepy beasties jumping out at you when you least expect it. And, even, sometimes when you do expect it, although it's still likely that you'll leap from your seat.
Although 90 per cent of the action is viewed from a third-person over-the-shoulder camera angle, the control method has more in common with EA's first-person shooters, such as Battlefield. The left-hand side of the screen controls movement, the right, eyeline. A series of taps, swipes and, even, screen tilts make up the rest. EA has even addressed certain players' wishes in a recent update, so there's also a reverse axis option.
Obviously, like most touchscreen games, it takes a bit of getting used to controlling the main character - especially when suddenly pounced upon by a Necromorph - but we've found it smooth and easy to control.
Fans of the Dead Space series, and even the survival horror genre in general, will be right at home with the gameplay, which is harder to explain than get to grips with. And while there's certain puzzle elements to be found along the way through the infected mining station, it mainly boils down to creeping about and pooing yourself when something flies at you from the dark. Oh, and shooting stuff with a variety of engineering implements... That's quite important too.
Graphically, Dead Space for all iOS devices is brilliant, with finely crafted tones and aesthetics, and is as close to a console experience as you can get. However, it's even better on the iPad 2, as the game is one of those that has been optimised for the new generation of Apple's tablet. The extra power of its new graphics processor is used to great effect on, er, great effects.
In fact, if you're the proud owner of an iPad 2, this has to be on your essentials list. Although, even if you're not, it's been discounted to 59p for the whole of Easter for tablet and phone formats, so there's no excuse to miss out. Might cost you a bit more in laundry bills, mind.


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Today, Steel Media says goodbye to Pocket Gamer's well-loved former Community Manager, Ray Wilmott. Don't worry though, as he's not going quite so far as you think!
He's staying in games, and will move on to an app development startup in Cardiff as their Community Manager, lending his skills earned at Pocket Gamer to help them grow. Best of luck to him!
Ray joined Pocket Gamer on November 30th, 2015, and his first day actually coincided with our official Christmas party. Ray then helped us to grow our community in the App Army and took over the social media reigns.
Eventually, Ray moved over to join our B2B marketing team, and helped promote our range of events and services during his time there.
Ray will be missed by us all, but let's not get caught up in the sadness, let's just wish Ray the very best for the future, and offer him these kind words from our colleagues.
Glen Fox
I only worked with Ray for a brief period, but he was always a pleasure to have around. He'd take up any task with a positive attitude, and he was well loved by our community in the App Army.
It's not really a goodbye from me, as Ray will still contribute handheld reviews for Pocket Gamer. But I do wish him the best of luck with his new full time role, and would like to thank him profusely for all of his hard work.
Dave Bradley
Best wishes for your next adventure Ray. You've been such a nice guy to work with - it's always fab to cross paths with a fellow fantasy and Pratchett fan.
Thank you for responding so enthusiastically and professionally to all the challenges 2016 has thrown up. Farewell and good luck.
Sally Kevan
Good bye and good luck Ray - I'll miss you!
James Gilmour
I soon as I realised Ray had a mouth and working vocal chords, I dragged him behind a microphone and made him talk into it for the entertainment of the Pocket Gamer podcast listeners.
Unfortunately, it turns out he had a fully functioning brain too, so he was soon poached by the community management team, where he built himself a loyal following which he commanded with an iron fist. Today they lose a leader, but the world gains a lovely set of pipes.
Joao Diniz Sanches
Few colleagues have responded as rapidly (or, indeed, as positively) as Ray did to every mission I threw his way via Skype. His friendly nature and professional attitude throughout his Steel Media journey ensured I could rely on him to not drop whichever ball I hurriedly lobbed over while we collectively juggled with numerous elements of the day-to-day.
As this has suddenly gone a bit circus-y - and before I walk my clown shoes into a literary corner from which I lack the talent to get out of - I'll exit the stage with a simple but genuine 'all the best, Ray'.
Jez Bridgeman
It's sad to see Ray leaving us, but unfortunately it's a thing that happens.
Personally, it's been a pleasure working with Ray - he's always been cheery! - and reckon we'll find it hard to replace that so easily.
He's also the only person I know called Ray Charles - other than the other guy.
His best excerpts - looking at our many Skype chats…
"That's in progress"
"I'll do that"
"Much appreciated"
"Yachi da boyo"
All classics. One lie.
Chris James
It's been a pleasure working Ray over the last year. His upbeat attitude and ability to turn himself to any task will definitely be missed.
He's contributed on so many different levels and became a familiar voice in our regular meetings. Good luck to him - all the team will miss him and his enthusiasm.


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Hello World
Now that you are setup on StepGreen and have the AS3 Access Control library (don't know what I'm talking about? See Chapter 3), we are ready to create our first StepGreen application.
We'll start with the ubiquitous "Hello World" and go from there.
Fire up Flash Builder, then select File->New->Flex Project. Give the project a name – this does not have to match the name you gave StepGreen, but it might help stop confusion. So I'm calling mine 'FlexSG'. Make sure that the Application Type is set to Desktop, accept all the other defaults and click on 'Next >'. Accept the default build location, clicking on 'Next >'.
The next page lets you modify source and library paths. Make sure the Library Path tab is selected. This is where we tell our app about the AS3 Access Control Library we downloaded. Click on the 'SWC' button, and browse to the location where you saved the file. 'OK' to close, then 'Finish'. Flash Builder will then setup your project, and present you with your apps main '.mxml' file. This will be named after your project – mine is called FlexSG.mxml. It will look something like (also at http://pastie.org/1482733):
xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> WindowedApplication xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <fx:Declarations> <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here --> </fx:Declarations> WindowedApplication>
You maybe thinking that we're going to write an app that displays "Hello World" to the user… nothing so boring! After all, this is a StepGreen app we are writing, so lets display something from StepGreen to the user instead.
Switch to the Design view of the app, and put four elements in the applications canvas. We'll need one Label, one Button, and two TextAreas. Place the Label at the top, the button directly underneath that, then the two TextAreas beneath that, side by side.
In the label, put a heading for your app – I have "FlexSG v0.0.1 – Hello World'.
For the button, give it an id of 'button_1'. You'll also want to give the TextBox's ids, call the one on the left 'text_output_1' and the one on the right 'txtDebug'. text_output_1 will display the processed output from the API, whilst txtDebug will display the raw output and other debugging information.
Return to the code view. At the top you'll see a declaration that looks like
xmlns:... >
Before the closing '>' you'll want to add a title parameter in the form:
title='your apps title'
Your code should look similar to to http://pastie.org/1483173. If you was to build and run it now, you would be presented with your app showing the label, button and textboxes – but it wouldn't actually do anything useful. Time to fix that!
In the code view, find the block. After the closing tag, put a couple of blank lines and type . The code completion should pop up and help you. Once you type the closing '>' it should autocomplete giving you
<fx:Script> <!--[CDATA[--> ]]> </fx:Script>
Now we have to do some setup. We'll start by telling Flash Builder what libraries your app is going to use. Immediately inside the CDATA block we'll add some import statements:
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent; import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; import org.stepgreen.accesscontrol.*; import org.stepgreen.accesscontrol.events.*; import org.stepgreen.accesscontrol.utils.ApiService;
We then set up some variables we're going to need:
// STEPGREEN.ORG KEYS private static const CONSUMER_KEY:String = "your_key_goes_here"; private static const CONSUMER_SECRET:String = "your_secret_goes_here"; private var _consumer:OAuthConsumer;
Insert the key and secret you got from the StepGreen website into the appropriate place. The _consumer variable holds the OAuthConsumer object that we'll be using to communicate with StepGreen.
Next we need to tell our app what to do when it starts up. We do this by assigning a 'creationComplete' attribute to the tag, and defining the function that it calls. In the tag add
after the title attribute. Then in the fx:Script block after the _consumer variable setup add the following:
// once we're loaded, setup our OAuth Consumer private function onCreationComplete():void{ //set up your OAuth Client _consumer = new OAuthConsumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET); _consumer.userId = ''; button_1.label = "Get Action"; button_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getAction_Click); }
This block of code does a couple of things. It starts off be initializing the _consumer with your key and secret. This causes a few things to happen behind the scenes – your app will connect with StepGreen and get the initial OAuth tokens it needs to continue. Second, we set up our button. Why give the button a label here and not when we first created it? It's to show that we can assign values to visual elements at any time. During the course of an application running you can use the same button for many tasks – you don't have to create lots of buttons and hide them. We then add an eventListener to the button so that we know when it has been clicked, and tell it what to do when that happens.
As we've told the button to call the getAction_Click function when it is pressed, we had better add that next:
private function getAction_Click(event:MouseEvent):void{ getAction(); }
And since that calls getAction, we'll also need to define that. In case you're wondering why we split it into two steps, it's to allow the getAction function to not need to accept a MouseEvent as a parameter – this means it could be called by other pieces of code, and potentially moved out to its own library more easily for others to use.
private function getAction():void{ var params:Object = new Object(); params["per_page"] = 1; var apiCall:ApiService = _consumer.getAPI("actions", params ); apiCall.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, actionResult); apiCall.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, actionFault); apiCall.send(); }
The getAction function is the one that initiates communication with the StepGreen API. By setting the per_page parameter to one, we are basically telling StepGreen to return only the first action it finds, without particularly caring which action that is. Once the apiCall is defined we attach a couple of EventListeners to it – one to catch errors, the other to handle a good result. We then send the call off to StepGreen with apiCall.send(). Behind the scenes this ensures that the request is properly formatted for OAuth, signed, sealed and delivered. Next we need to define actionResult and actionFault.
private function actionResult(event:ResultEvent):void{ debug("actionResult()\n\n" + event.result); getActionsResult(event); } private function actionFault(event:FaultEvent):void{ debug("actionFault() " + event.fault.message); debug("actionFault() statusCode: " + event.statusCode); if( event.statusCode == 401 ){ // access denied. may need to re-get credentials // if this was an authenticated call }else{ // some other fault } }
In both functions we'll display what we receive we'll send the raw results or error message to txtDebug via the debug function which we'll define later. For actionFault we're not going to do anything else here, but if we were building a full application we would need to take some action based on it not working. What we do might depend on the type of error we received. In actionResult, we'll pass the result on to getActionResult to handle the output.
public function getActionsResult(event:ResultEvent):void{ var xmlNode:XMLNode = event.result as XMLNode; var actionsXML:XML = new XML(xmlNode.toString()); for each (var action:XML in actionsXML.action){ text_output_1.text += "Title: " + action.short_name + "\n\n"; text_output_1.text += "Description: " + action.description + "\n\n"; text_output_1.text += "Tags:\n" for each (var tag:XML in action.tag){ var category:String = tag.attribute("name"); text_output_1.text += category + "\n" } } }
getActionResult does a few things. It starts off by converting the incoming Result into XML. Next, it steps over that XML retrieving the individually defined actions – we may have only asked for one, but if we had asked for more this would still have worked and displayed all of them to us. For each action we then display its title, description and tags in the text_output_1 TextBox.
Lastly, we'll define the debug function
private function debug(message:String):void{ txtDebug.text += message + "\n\n"; }
You should end up with something that looks like this http://pastie.org/1482875.
Time to build and run your app! If all's well, it should run, and when you click the button you will be shown details about an action you can take on StepGreen.


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"Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are. So, what does it all mean? Rather than make a snap judgement I decided to sit, wait and watch before trying to make sense of it all. Now, I'm ready to give you my two-cents on who are the winners and losers in this post-deal Linux world."


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While many who love strong bass buy this, imo the bass is overdone. For the $14 price though it is good. I don't use my HAFX101 much though, and usually use the Panasonic RP-HJE450 instead. Yes, the HJE450 does cost more(around $23) however imo it has more detail(but not as much as the RP-HJE355, although the HJE355 has much less bass) and fits me much better than the HA-FX101. The RP-HJE450 has strong bass impact, however imo it still seems natural. The bass on the HA-FX101 seems unnatural. The RP-HJE450 has 12.5mm drivers compared to 8.5 mm on the HA-FX101. The RP-HJE450 has oval nozzles that radiate from near the edge, making it extremely ergonomic with a great fit. The plug is a right angle one, and the build quality seems great.
Would I buy the HAFX101 again? Perhaps, although I might just use it occasionally when I'm in the mood. I'm not a basshead though. Those who are true bassheads might fall in love with the HA-FX101. The HA-FX101 is much better than its predecessor the HA-FX1X.
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Claremont police identify suspect in three armed robberiesBy MEGHAN PIERCE
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December 11. 2013 9:08PM
CLAREMONT — Claremont police said Wednesday they have identified the suspect who allegedly committed three armed robberies in the Upper Valley area over the past two months.
James M. Oberfeldt, 30, of Claremont, is being held in Massachusetts on drug charges after he was arrested by Massachusetts State Police in Holyoke, Mass., Saturday.
Because Sullivan County has a warrant issued for Oberfeldt for a probation violation, state police contacted the Sullivan County's Sheriff Department to notify the department of his arrest, who in turn notified Claremont police.
After working with state police, Claremont police was able to "positively identify Oberfeldt as the suspect," Claremont police said Wednesday.
He is expected to be formally charged with the three Upper Valley robberies in the near future. The robberies include the Oct. 11 armed robbery of the One Credit Union on Charlestown Road in Claremont; the Nov. 20 armed robbery of the Lake Sunapee Bank on Hanover Street in Lebanon; and the Nov. 26 armed robbery of the Claremont Savings Bank on Maple Avenue in Claremont.
"The Claremont Police Department was able to confirm that the firearm brandished during the above listed robberies was a Daisy Air-soft BB gun, Beretta 9 mm replica and not a real firearm," police said in a release.
Oberfeldt is being held on cash bail in Massachusetts for the drug charges and $5,000 cash bail for the Sullivan County probation violation warrant.


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Just dealing with the creation aspect, a god who started everything. Physicists have discovered that the universe can create itself through quantum fluctuations and that the amount of energy needed to form any universe is zero.
This is not exactly the science I was thinking about above but it is closely related.
It is a mathematical formulation based on good experimental evidence about quantum fluctuations in a vacuum. It is sufficient proof on its own that any universe CAN begin this way. It means that a deist god is not necessary which is what you wanted.
I have just thought that my explanations of the creator deist god and controlling deist god were too soft. I didn't mention non causality in quantum mechanics. We can still observe non caused quantum fluctuations today when particles are created from nothing around a black hole. Since the universe is a quantum universe and was at first entirely quantum, non causality rules out the creator deist completely. The controlling deist god has already been eliminated but is now eliminated again.
I always thought that black-holes condense energy into matter due to their immense gravity (enough to suck in light)...
Quote from: Angus and Alexis on October 01, 2013, 08:03:24 PMI always thought that black-holes condense energy into matter due to their immense gravity (enough to suck in light)...I'm not a physicist, just a SF fan and science geek, but it's my understanding that even the gravity fields of black holes can't accomplish that. Are you maybe talking about virtual particles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle) or vacuum fluctuations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluctuations)? Interesting question: can energy become matter under certain circumstances? I'll start a thread on the Science board and maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in to inform us.
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The director of the bubbly Priscilla, Queen of the Desert tackles the bubbly playwright Noel Coward for Easy Virtue, a loose but spirited adaptation of Coward's scandalous Jazz Age romp. All that bubbling means that some of the froth floats off this confection. But it's still a winning, witty fox trot through the Roaring 20s, when men were men, women were liberating themselves and the "to the manner born" were losing their grip on their manners -- and manors.
The Whittakers are English landed gentry saddled with a World War I vet patriarch ( Colin Firth) who came back from the war "lost," a micro-managing matriarch ( Kristin Scott Thomas) who hasn't married off her not-quite-spinsters daughters and who has no control over her playboy son (Ben Barnes, aka Prince Caspian).
But Johnny's latest stunt takes everyone's breath away. He's run off and married a pants-wearing flapper...a smoker...a race car driver...a peroxide blonde...an American!
The newlyweds arrive on the family estate and the battle is joined. No way Mother is tolerating "this bauble of a woman." And the "bauble" ( Jessica Biel) knows her image problems. She is "the harlot stealing into the nursery" and "a gold digger burrowing in from the land of opportunists." What's worse, she has a reputation as a woman of "easy virtue."
Johnny doesn't care. He's smitten. He keeps crooning "Let's Misbehave" to his love.
The open warfare between the women -- with the self-assured Biel holding her own with the always-flinty Thomas -- is the fun of Easy Virtue. Coward's droll wit makes most every line quotable. Oddly, the filmmakers pepper the soundtrack not only with hits of the day, but with jazz singer versions of songs such as "When the Going Gets Tough (The Tough Get Going)." Wacky.
Alas, the froth only lasts through the first two acts. Director Stephen Elliott and his co-adapter Sheridan Jobbins match Coward's zingers with a few of their own, yet cannot maintain the lightness when third act "revelations" take the movie (as they do the play) into darker places.
Still, the wit carries us and it's great seeing Biel show the Brits that no, Keira isn't the only Twitter Age hottie who can hold her own in a period piece -- with ease.


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Chester man faces additional child sex abuse chargesBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 17. 2013 9:06PM
BRENTWOOD - A Chester man already facing charges he sexually assaulted a young girl in the 1990s has been charged with possessing child pornography, prosecutors said.
Gary Britton was indicted on 15 counts of possession of child sexual abuse images, which could keep him in state prison for the rest of his life if he is convicted.
Consecutive sentences could bring a minimum term of 115 years if Britton is convicted, according to indictments.
Prosecutors say Britton, 61, had a variety of images and videos on his home computer showing children engaging in sexual acts.
The images were discovered by his landlords in September 2011, prompting Chester police to seize the computer and have it forensically examined.
New charges against Britton came to light more than a week ago when public defenders petitioned a judge for state-approved funds so a forensic exam could be performed on Britton's computer.
The defense wants Britton's computer examined so it can determine for itself when "questionable pornographic images" were placed on a computer's desktop screen.
The indictments were made public Thursday.
Allegations about Britton having child pornography on his computer appeared in court documents and testimony for months.
Public defenders acknowledged in court papers that they would explore a plea deal for Britton, but it's unclear whether the latest indictments could upend that effort.
Britton is serving a 12-month jail sentence after pleading guilty for failing to register as a sex offender.
A grand jury indicted him in August on two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and two counts of felonious sexual assault.
Chester police initially arrested Britton for failure to re-register as a sex offender. Britton was evicted from his apartment on the same day - for unpaid rent - which set off a wider police investigation.
His landlords began going through Britton's belongings and turned on his computer, police said. They discovered the pornography on the computer and called police.
An examination of the computer provided information to police that Britton began sexually assaulting a girl in 1991, according to prosecutors. The girl was 9 years old when the series of assaults began, and continued until 1995, indictments say.
Each of the sexual assault charges are punishable by up to 20 to 40 years in state prison. He faces a felon in possession of a weapon charge for possessing a handgun that Police Chief William Burke found while police were executing a search warrant of the apartment.
Britton was barred from owning a gun for being convicted in 1983 of aggravated felonious sexual assault.


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Jon Gosselin responds to Kate Gosselin's accusation that he took $230,000 from the couple's joint account, leaving only $1,000 for the family.
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad calls Kate's accusation "A total fabrication." Jon, 32, told The Insider Monday. "I withdrew $22,000 last Thursday. I have the paper trail to prove it."
"I've never taken any money out because over 10 years, Kate handled all the banking," he said. "Over the past four years of doing the show, we accrued $2,250,000. She says in the past week I took $230,000. I have withdrawn roughly $177,000 over the course of a year, which is less than 10 percent of what we made. That's like my paycheck."
In addition, Jon accuses Kate of hiding money and lying just to make him look bad. He insists that Kate should have no problems paying the bills. He also reveals that Kate made millions from her best seller book.
Kate appeared on the Today show yesterday morning, saying she didn't have enough money to pay the bills. A few hours later, she called into the The View and said she'd take a job at McDonald's in order to provide for her kids if it ever got to that point.
Despite appearing on National television to talk about their monetary issues, Jon insists, "I didn't want these things to come public. I didn't want this to be embarrassing for her."
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Saturday's Boston Herald reports that Pats cornerback Asante Samuel could sign his one-year franchise tender and report to the team early in training camp. This report implies that Samuel and the team won't strike a long-term deal before Monday's deadline for doing so.
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"We're a lot closer than we were before," agent Glenn Toby told the Patriot Ledger. "We're not adversaries; we're not fighting [the Patriots]. We're fighting to get it done collectively.
"There's been a great deal of progress," Toby added. "We respect Coach [Bill] Belichick -- he's a visionary; he's got a great system. We don't want to disrespect the system by any means. We want to do something that works.
"I think we're going to get something done because I think this could be an amazing year."
In our view, Toby's words are nothing short of amazing, given that there previously has been no indication of any progress being made between the two sides. If anything, the indications were that a long-term deal would not get accomplished, primarily because Samuel wants to get the kind of money that he'd only get on the open market from another team.
Then again, we're not so sure that Toby is in a position to speak with confidence about the situation. Though there is evidence on the Intergoogle of a relationship between Toby and Infinite Sports Management, the firm that represents Samuel, Toby is not listed by the NFLPA as a registered contract advisor.
In fact, the only registered NFL agents at Infinite Sports Management are Alonzo Shavers, Marcus Ross, and Jay Bianco. Among them, they are listed as having negotiated a total of six active contracs.
But in a clip from the now-defunct ESPN offering Quite Frankly that appears on Toby's MySpace page, Toby is introduced as "a sports agent who represents more than 25 NFL players."
And in the "Clients" section of his personal web site, Toby says that "Terra Firma Sports Agency" represents "over 30 NFL Players," including Asante "Samuels." (In his online bio, Toby says that he represents more than 25 NFL players, including "Assante Samuels.")
Our goal here isn't to knock Toby. It's obvious that he is a successful figure in the world of sports and entertainment. But the fact remains that he is not authorized to negotiate a football contract on behalf of Samuel. Thus, it makes it hard for us to put a lot of stock in his characterizations of the progress of any talks, given that the Patriots are prohibited under the Collective Bargaining Agreement from talking to Toby or any other person not licensed by the NFLPA to negotiate contracts about what it will take to get the deal done.


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The New York Times has announced that Dean Baquet, the newspaper's managing editor, will replace Jill Abramson as the executive editor. Both Abramson and Baquet were named to their current jobs in 2011. NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik comments on the move.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block. A surprise announcement from The New York Times today: Jill Abramson, the first woman to run the paper as executive editor, has been replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet. He'll become the Times' first African-American executive editor. The paper's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., told Times staffers it was due to an issue with management in the newsroom. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik joins us now to talk about this. And, David, first, start with a bit about Jill Abramson and the Times during her tenure as executive editor.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: Sure. She joined the Times in 1997. She's a very accomplished investigative and political reporter. And she really helped them pursue some very serious reporting out of Washington over the years. After the aftermath of the Jason Blair scandal, Bill Keller was elevated to be executive editor of the paper and she became his chief deputy. And she helped to really lead the paper for more than a decade and rose to the top job about three years ago. You know, it was a hallmark in which they did a lot of good work. She was seen as a steady journalistic presence - brusque in the newsroom. She didn't hear a ton of, shall we say, friends but she did earn a lot of fans for her tough-minded approach. And, obviously, a lot of women journalists really looked to her as somebody who was really showing that the very top echelons of journalism women could lead as well as perform.
BLOCK: And the paper earned also a bunch of Pulitzers under her tenure. What does her abrupt ouster from the Times mean?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, it was pretty brutal. I mean, you know, you think of people leaving the Times. Bill Keller took essentially a victory lap, was able to set his own date of departure after what was a strong tenure there. Howell Raines, you know, was unceremoniously dumped during the Jason Blair episode and scandal of plagiarism and fabrications. And you see those as the two extremes. In this instance, there's no scandal that's been reported. Arthur Sulzberger, I'm told, has told senior news executives and other executives they are not allowed to talk about this even with their colleagues the reason for this, and so it remains obscure. I can point to a few things. You know, she had been seen as somebody who had conflicted with the new CEO that Sulzberger had appointed - came from the BBC - Mark Thompson over two things. One was his push for more video, which the ads on the, you know, online videos can generate a lot more revenue than simply regular banner ads and the like. She thought that might be expensive and a waste of time. And also he was annoyed that she had sent Matthew Purdy, the investigations editor, to Britain to look into his role into whether or not the BBC had hidden a child abuse scandal from decades ago. And so there was that tension there but that's not a reason to push somebody out right now.
BLOCK: I'm looking at the New York Times masthead on their website. Her name is gone. Dean Baquet's is up now as executive editor. What should we expect from him?
FOLKENFLIK: Well, you know, he's been a champion also of investigative reporting, political reporting. He likes the game, he likes a good story, likes the front page. Interestingly, you know, Sulzberger cited his interest in digital innovations and storytelling online. That's not something he's been known for. You know, a report came out from Sulzberger's son just a couple of weeks ago that said the Times needed to be more aggressive about pursuing innovation. You know, while Abramson herself was not known for innovating, she was very open to it. And the Times under her tenure really performed quite well. So, you know, you have in Baquet a champion of journalism, not necessarily a digital journalism warrior.
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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Stacey Perry,
v. Docket No. CR-07-422
Bristol County
Retirement System,
Appearance for Petitioner:
Michael Manning, Esq.
159 Burgin Parkway
Quincy, MA 02169
Appearance for Respondent:
Michael Sacco, Esq.
285 College Highway
PO Box 479
Southampton, MA 01073
Administrative Magistrate:
Maria A. Imparato, Esq.
Stacey Perry filed a timely appeal under G. L. c. 32, s. 16 (4) of the May 24, 2007 decision of the Bristol County Retirement System ("Board") to deny her request to be classified in Group 2, rather than Group1, for retirement purposes. (Exs. 1, 2)
I held a hearing on June 25, 2008 at the office of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals, 98 North Washington Street, 4th floor, Boston. I admitted documents into evidence. (Exs. 1 - 11) I marked the Petitioner's pre-hearing memorandum "A" for identification, and the Respondent's pre-hearing memorandum "B" for identification. The Petitioner testified on her own behalf, as did Major Lawrence Sherman, Assistant Superintendent. There is one tape cassette of the hearing.
1. Stacey Perry, d.o.b. 4/7/1968, has worked for the Bristol County Sheriff's Department at the Dartmouth House of Correction since 1993. She began work as a Junior Clerk. She eventually became Head Administrative Clerk. On February 5, 2008 her title was changed to Head Administrative Clerk/Booking and Receiving. Her job group and salary did not change as a result of her change in title. (Exs. 5, 10, Testimony)
2. On February 1, 2006, Ms. Perry was appointed a Deputy Sheriff by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. (Ex. 6)
3. Ms. Perry's job duties require her to provide clerical support for the Booking and Receiving department. (Exs. 7, 9, 11)
4. As of July 1999, Ms. Perry's job duties included preparation of work for caseworkers by matching booking sheets with court writs from the previous night; requesting all police reports from surrounding towns; entering jail and house information into the inmate tracking system; preparing all paperwork for transportation to courts; filing index cards; responding to telephone requests from courts; providing release date information for former inmates or inmates in other institutions; making copies of booking and sentence sheets for parole; booking in new inmates through data entry; and performing other duties as required by the Sheriff. (Ex. 7)
5. In April 2007, Ms. Perry's job description was amended. She was required to perform all of the duties enumerated in the July 1999 job description, and to perform the additional duties of taking photos of inmates at the time of booking; researching the Board of Probation System for DNA; checking all inmates for warrants; checking the daily count and calling it into the state; checking for sex offenders; counting all money from the vault and preparing it for finance; checking for foreign-born inmates daily; and working with Social Security for inmate information. (Ex. 9)
6. In or about April 2007, Ms. Perry made a verbal request to the Board that she be classified in Group 2 for retirement purposes. She provided the Board with the job description from July 1999 and the job description from April 2007. ("B")
7. After a Board hearing on April 27, 2007, the Board voted on May 24, 2007 to deny Ms. Perry's request, and she appealed to the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board. (Exs. 1, 2)
8. In January 2008, Ms. Perry's job description was amended again. She was required to perform all of the duties enumerated in the July 1999 job description and the April 2007 job description, and to perform the additional duties of interviewing newly committed inmates to acquire information necessary for institutional purposes; fingerprinting all newly committed inmates; and cooperating with security and administrative staff in the orderly processing of inmates through the intake process. (Ex. 11)
9. Ms. Perry works from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Booking and Receiving area has two areas separated by a plexiglass wall. On Ms. Perry's side of the plexiglass is a counter, a computer, a printer, a copy machine, a fingerprint machine and a camera. Three Correction Officers are assigned to the area (Testimony)
10. Between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Ms. Perry performs clerical work in preparation for the arrival of the vans of inmates that arrive from court between 1 - 1:30 p.m. Each van has two Transportation Officers who shackle and unshackle the inmates, take them from the vans, and place them in holding cells. (Testimony)
11. A Correction Officer brings an inmate out of the holding cell into the Booking and Receiving area for Ms. Perry to book the inmate. The inmate sits on the opposite side of the plexiglass wall from Ms. Perry while she performs the booking procedure on the computer. Sometimes she takes a picture of the inmate if his mug shot is old. Ms. Perry books between 2 and 5 inmates each day. The booking process takes between 5 and 10 minutes if fingerprinting is not required. Ms. Perry fingerprints an inmate about once a week. (Testimony)
12. On or about June 20, 2008, Ms. Perry was given the additional duty of providing each inmate with a handbook and having him sign it. (Testimony)
13. Between 3 and 4 p.m. Ms. Perry does paperwork. At 4 p.m. her work day is over. (Testimony)
14. The second shift begins at 3 p.m. Most of the booking is performed by employees on the second shift. (Testimony)
The decision of the Bristol County Retirement System to classify Stacey Perry in Group 1, rather than Group 2, for retirement purposes is affirmed.
Employees are classified in Groups 1 through 4 for retirement purposes under
G. L. c. 32, s. 3 (2) (g). Group 1 includes "[o]fficials and general employees including clerical, administrative, and technical workers, laborers, mechanics and all others not otherwise classified." Group 2 includes "employees of … any county … whose regular and major duties require them to have the care, custody, instruction or other supervision of prisoners."
The Petitioner's regular and major duties do not require her to have the care, custody, instruction or other supervision of prisoners. In an eight hour work day, the Petitioner is in contact with inmates during the booking process for a maximum of 50 minutes each day. (5 inmates x 10 minutes = 50 minutes) The Petitioner performs clerical work from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Dealing with inmates is therefore not a major duty for the Petitioner.
Furthermore, the work that the Petitioner performs does not constitute care, custody, instruction or other supervision of inmates. The inmates are supervised by Correction Officers who bring them to the jail in vans, place them in holding cells, and bring them, one by one, to the Petitioner for booking. The Petitioner sits on the opposite side of a plexiglass wall from the inmates. She asks them questions, sometimes takes their pictures and occasionally takes their fingerprints. There are three Correction Officers assigned to the Booking and Receiving area, and each van of inmates is accompanied by two Transportation Officers. The inmates are never in the Petitioner's custody or care, and she does not supervise them.
I conclude that the Petitioner's job is essentially an administrative one, and she is therefore properly classified in Group 1.
/s/ Maria A. Imparato
Administrative Magistrate


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Brake problems, a fuel leak, and an electrical fire kept three Boeing 787s from flying earlier this week, eliciting reassurances from the company that its problems were similar to those of all new planes, and that they're not changing any manufacturing procedures or sales plans.
Downplaying the events might be standard PR practice -- and they may well be minor bumps in the ongoing shakedown of the new plane -- but I think Boeing needs to reevaluate its strategy in light of the fact that it has an airplane problem.
The 787 Dreamliner has been vexed since its inception.
The company was convinced by one or more management consulting firms to outsource design and production of the 787's components. While this idea might make sense for sourcing coffeemakers, it was a nonsense approach to assembling perhaps the most complicated and potentially dangerous machines shy of nuclear reactors. I'm sure blather from the HBR supported the idea that distances between factories in Seattle and Outer Mongolia were no farther than a VOIP chat, but the reality was a mess. Parts didn't fit together with others. Some suppliers subcontracted work to their suppliers and then shrugged at problems with assembly. When one part wasn't available, the next one that depended on it couldn't be attached and the global supply chain all but seized up. Boeing had to spend $1 billion in 2009 to buy one of the worst offenders and bring the work back in-house.
It didn't help that the outsourcing plan included skipping the detailed blueprints the company would have normally prepared, and allowing vendors to come up with their own. Delivered components arrived with instructions and notes written in Chinese, Italian, and other languages. Oh, and they decided to build the airplane out of plastic along with other novel materials and technologies, so it would have been a big experiment even if Boeing approached manufacturing like it always had.
The project went billions over budget, the delivery schedule was pushed back at least 7 times before the first planes were delivered 3+ years late, and so far the company has delivered only 49 of the 848 it has sold.
So are you looking forward to flying on an airplane adopting novel technology with no single blueprint built out of plastic and assembled from pieces that don't necessarily fit together?
Fair or not, this narrative is all but established fact because it's searchable online, so it's just waiting for the next technical mishap to get revisited. Worse, it may well have yielded major issues, which is why the company's declarations of "business as usual" have no credibility because nothing has been usual about the 787 since day one.
Boeing runs many risks following its PR strategy. More mishaps are likely, if not inevitable. The world's media are on the outlook and will report them. Boeing's stock price will continue to be particularly sensitive to these reports (it fell 2% on this week's news). Its airline customers will get a little itchier with every glimpse of a problem. The flying public will take note. Regulators might feel compelled to take another look at the planes. God forbid something truly "not minor" happens; the I told you so meme will run rampant, and at that point all bets are off on stock price, flying confidence, and even ultimate delivery of those remaining 800 planes.
It's time now for Boeing to stop telling us that everything is fine and start proving it. Get third-parties to affirm its design integrity. Go back and check the quality and tolerances of the parts it received from all over the world. Test the planes even more, and make a big public stink about it. Create and then announce an even deeper, more intensive quality regime for those models still on the assembly line. Do something big, like Rolls Royce did when its new engine flamed out in 2010 (they grounded every plane using it until they were satisfied the problem was solved).
It needs to narrate operational truths, using social media and TV advertising filled with documented, factual evidence that the 787 is the best, safest plane ever built. Get ahead of the narrative by changing it, not talking as if it doesn't exist. Don't declare. Prove.
Oh, and if there's such a thing as malpractice suits against management consultants, the brainiacs who pitched the outsourcing deal in the first place deserve to be drawn and quartered. Ultimately, there's no way anybody is going to believe that Boeing has got things right unless it demonstrates the ability to acknowledge what it got wrong.
Until then, it doesn't have a PR problem. It has an airplane problem.
UPDATE 01.11.13: A day after I wrote this essay, the FAA announced a "comprehensive safety review of Boeing 787 critical systems." Unfortunately, this just plays into the ongoing narrative, whether it's deserved suspicion or not. I had hoped Boeing had more time to proactively change the story. It's never too late.
UPDATE 01.14.13: More news of 787 problems. Many comments pointed out that the plane was getting unfair scrutiny, and that its problems were no different that those of any other new plane. While this may well be the case, the fact of the attention -- which the program has enduring for many years now -- should have encouraged Boeing to approach its communications in a different way, in my opinion.
UPDATE 01.15.13: Emergency landing is proof of media scrutiny and a real event.
UPDATE 01.22.13: One of Boeing's largest customers praised it for good communications during the crisis. That's a good sign for Boeing.
UPDATE o1.24.13: Here's my interview with Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines, on the Kudlow Report, exploring Boeing's ongoing reputation problem.
UPDATE 01.28.13: Japanese authorities reveal that safety standards were eased to get the 787 into service with Japanese airlines. Just more proof that the project was not 'business as usual.'
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Ceremony for Weare's new police chief set for Saturday
October 24. 2013 1:25AM
WEARE - The town's new police chief will be sworn in during a special ceremony Saturday.According to Town Administrator Naomi Bolton, newly named Police Chief John Velleca will be sworn in at 3 p.m. at the Weare Middle School Cafetorium. Following the ceremony there will be a reception so that members of the public can meet Velleca and his family.
John Velleca, a 20-year veteran of the New Haven, Conn. police department has been hired to replace Chief Gregory Begin who retired in May. His appointment was made earlier this month after a lengthy search process.
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Turmoil didn't cause 8-8; 8-8 caused turmoil.
But the fact remains that the Steelers locker room appears lousy with malcontents, laggards and tattletales. Which is worst? That's in the eye of the beholder
Such malaise is common with most NFL teams. Localization thereof is just another reminder that the Steelers are no longer a "special" franchise - if they ever were.
So, who's at fault?
Coach Mike Tomlin is hardly blameless. He seems to cede a bit more control and lose a bit more discipline every year.
Linebacker LaMarr Woodley is the founder of the latest tempest. Critics like Ryan Clark may characterize the unnamed Steeler source as a rat, but no one is calling that unnamed source a liar.
It's common knowledge that Woodley was out of shape, overweight and lacked dedication. The proof was in his season: Just four sacks and a level of invisibility the Steelers can't afford from an edge rusher.
Clark and Antonio Brown are right when they say the matter should have been kept in-house. But, given that, why did they keep discussing it publicly?
Oh, right: Got to get on TV.
What's a bigger sin: Tanking a season due to lard and laziness, like Woodley? Or calling Woodley out anonymously after the fact? Stinking, or snitching?
Going 8-8 suggests the former. Gangsta culture dictates the latter.
Hines Ward knows where things went wrong: He retired. Humility lives.
"When you lose so much leadership in the locker room, that is where things present itself like that," Ward told the NFL Network.
The Steelers don't lack leadership. They lack followers. The Young Money Crew and the Florida Gators posse (known collectively as the No-Ring Mafia) seem to believe they got NFL life figured out. So shut up, Troy.
The Steelers also lack self-awareness. The Steelers, as an organization and as individuals, are rarely made to experience an unpleasant moment. As a result, they seem to believe they shouldn't. They run this town, and they know it.
But when you go 8-8 and miss the playoffs, you don't get treated like immortals coated in Teflon. Punks, loafers and lousy performances get called out.
Humiliation isn't always bad. It can motivate. Woodley's problems weren't sorted out internally, or privately. So tell the outside world and see what happens.
Some feel Mike Wallace's impending departure (via Rolls-Royce
Phantom) will restore order. But there is a lot more than one bad apple.
The idea of a player currently without a contract or team purchasing a car that costs $500K is dumbfounding, isn't it? Wallace is in a temporary profession making temporary money. But someday he'll be a TV star: Wallace will be the primary protagonist on ESPN 30 for 30's "Broke 2."
So, how will the Steelers straighten out their locker room?
Winning is generally a cure-all. It's also easier said than done.
The Steelers' biggest problem has traditionally been when they don't recognize there's a problem. But perhaps the Steelers' current problems are too big. Perhaps too many bad actors populate their roster. Perhaps there are insufficient replacements for the broken parts that need to be replaced.
Only one thing seems certain: The Steelers are a lot closer to a losing season than they are a Super Bowl.
On the field, the Steelers' best bet is turning their hopes over to Ben Roethlisberger, one of football's top five quarterbacks. But tradition dictates the Steelers strive for balance on offense and hard-hitting defense. Don't let Roethlisberger win the game in the first quarter. Ask him to bail you out in the last.
Didn't work in 2012. Won't work in 2013. Between inferior weaponry and outdated philosophy, the Steelers are wasting their $102 million quarterback.
You think 8-8 caused turmoil? We might see what 6-10 produces.
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Most coins came in nice quality and even examples in MS67 were abundant. Coins in MS68 condition are very scarce with none being graded higher by PCGS.
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