Frank A. Smotherman, 69, passed away peacefully August 29th 2013 with his daughter and his wife by his side as a result of injuries sustained in a tragic accident at home.
He was born September 13th 1943 in Hazel, Kentucky to J.P and Lottie Smotherman. He was one of seven children.
Frank lived a big and bold life, and quickly found his niche in the vibrant community of Aspen in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
In 1976 Frank Smotherman and Cindy Sadlowski were married and moved down valley to settle in Carbondale. Through his work, he took pride in helping people find their homes and built many lifelong friendships.
In 1986 Frank and Cindy welcomed their only child Chesca. He was the proudest and most loving father anyone could ever ask for. He shared his great joys in life with her and they had countless adventures together throughout his life.
He spent almost 44 years living in the Roaring Fork Valley, and was a well known man about town. He lived a bright, happy and colorful existence. He hosted a radio show on KDNK, served as a Carbondale Trustee and once ran for County Commissioner.
Above all, he loved people. He never forgot a face and took great joy in connecting with friends from all walks of life both old and new. Friends and acquaintances are invited to a Celebration of Life, to be held Friday September 13th (his 70th birthday) in Carbondale at the 3rd street center in the round room from 6-9pm. Please come with stories and memories to share.
Contact Chesca Smotherman as needed (970) 618-5909.


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Wife, co-owner of Chesapeake barber school pleads guilty to $4.5 million GI Bill fraud conspiracy
The College of Beauty and Barber Culture collected $4.5 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs from October 2011 through September this year. But court records show the school was defrauding the VA.
By Margaret Matray
Chesapeake barber school received millions to teach veterans. Instead, the director was defrauding the VA
Since 2011, the College of Beauty and Barber Culture collected millions from the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for veterans to learn how to cut hair. But only 7 of about 350 veterans enrolled have passed state licensing exams.

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MDA Labor Day Telethon 2012: the renamed MDA Show of Strength is no longer a telethon
The 2012 edition of MDA Telethon, now renamed the MDA Show of Strength (thus no longer referring to itself as a telethon), aired Sunday, September 2, 2012, and was reduced to three hours for prime-time broadcast.
The telethon was seen at 8:00 PM ET/PT, 7:00 PM CT/MT, and seen live in the Eastern and Central time zones.
Kicked off with the electrifying song This Is Love by Grammy-winning artist will.i.am, the all-new MDA Show of Strength presented three hours of prime-time entertainment while raising awareness of Muscular Dystrophy Association's research and services missions, its sponsors and the people it serves.
The show, which aired Sunday night, September 2 and featured local segments produced by MDA's Love Network of 150 stations across the country, redefined the tradition of MDA's Labor Day Telethon with a faster pace and performances targeted to engage show viewers in MDA's cause.
The 2012 edition of MDA Telethon, now renamed the MDA Show of Strength, was reduced to three hours for prime-time broadcast
"We're truly grateful to members of the public who responded to our SHOW of STRENGTH with generous contributions made by phoning, texting or giving online," said MDA Interim President and Medical Director Valerie Cwik, M.D.
"We hope that the momentum started by the show this weekend has inspired our viewers to learn more about MDA and be involved all year long."
The show presented a variety of musical styles, from country sensation Carrie Underwood to rap artist Pitbull, aka Mr. Worldwide, who ended his performance by inviting MDA's 12-year-old National Goodwill Ambassador Bryson Foster to be a guest at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in late September and declaring: "We need you guys more than you need us. You're the ones that are strong."
Other performers included: B.o.B, Brandy, Hot Chelle Rae, OneRepublic, All-American Rejects, Gavin DeGraw, Karmin, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Luke Bryan, Eva Simons, Silhouettes and Alanis Morissette.
You've Got a Friend, performed by legendary singer-songwriter Carole King and accompanied by images of MDA families, provided the emotional, inspirational finale.
Also appearing were: Nancy O'Dell, Jann Carl, Alison Sweeney, Ryan Seacrest, WWE Champion The Miz, Paula Abdul, Khloé Kardashian Odom, Max Adler, Lou Ferrigno, Ace Young, Diana DeGarmo, Jesse McCartney, and Benji and Joel Madden.
People can visit mda.org to view performances, backstage interviews and exclusive online bonus performances that did not air on the September 2 broadcast.
As a way of saying "thank you" to viewers and the generous public for its ongoing support of MDA, the exclusive bonus performances include: Carole King singing Beautiful and OneRepublic with their smash hit Good Life.
Fans of Hot Chelle Rae can see them perform Whatever; Alanis Morissette sings You Learn; Gavin DeGraw delivers with his song Soldier; and B.o.B contributes two performances, So Good and Strange Clouds.
Families give new meaning to the word "strength"
Individuals and families affected by neuromuscular diseases – such as Bryson Foster, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy – were the real stars of the show and were introduced in profile segments.
In addition to Bryson Foster, the show featured 14-year-old Latondra Chappell, who has central core disease; 17-year-old Kennedy Healy, who has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); 7-year-old Reagan Imhoff, also affected by SMA; and 12-year-old Justin Moy, a science enthusiast with congenital muscular dystrophy who says he wants to "become a biochemist and find a cure for muscular dystrophy."
Featured adults included Veronica Niño and Shaun Probert, both of whom have ALS, and Angela Wrigglesworth, a fourth-grade teacher with SMA who shared that MDA summer camp helped her "to become an independent woman."
Also appearing were MDA spokespeople Augie and Lynne Nieto, Luke Christie, Abbey Umali, Kelly Mahoney, Benjamin Cumbo, Mandy Beckham (formerly Mandy Van Benthuysen) and Lucas Cook.
Special acknowledgment was made of the crucial support provided by MDA national sponsors, including: Acosta, Burger King, CITGO Petroleum Corp., Harley-Davidson, International Association of Fire Fighters, Jiffy Lube International, Lowe's, National Association of Letter Carriers, Safeway, 7-Eleven, and 7UP.
"In one night, we presented great entertainment, inspiring stories and the unwavering support of our national sponsors and called on the American public to join our <<muscle>> team," said MDA Executive Vice President of Business Development Kevin Moran.
"MDA SHOW of STRENGTH is bringing a whole new energy to MDA and pointing the way to exciting new directions for all of us who are dedicated to advancing MDA's mission."
About MDA
MDA is the nonprofit health agency dedicated to finding treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases by funding worldwide research. The Association also provides comprehensive health care and support services, advocacy and education.
In addition to funding some 300 research projects worldwide, MDA maintains a national network of 200 medical clinics; facilitates hundreds of support groups for families affected by neuromuscular diseases; and provides local summer camp opportunities for thousands of youngsters living with progressive muscle diseases.
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THE ASPHALT JUNGLE - heist-noir "classic" has weathered badly
The conventional wisdom seems to be that John Huston's 1950 noir-heist movie, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, is a pantheon movie. Not only a classic, it seems to inspire reviewers to bring out the most florid superlatives and tortured metaphors. The BBC revierer calls it "a biting, bitter espresso of a movie"; Variety praises its "ironic realism"; in The Guardian, Andrew Pulver claims it is "a Brechtian ode to the urban wasteland"; Philip French calls it "possibly the greatest heist thriller ever." By contrast, Bina007 - a firm fan of film-noir, heist movies AND John Huston, declares THE ASPHALT JUNGLE more boring than a very boring thing. To put this in perspective, I like, nay, love, cricket, possibly the most boring sport ever invented, so I know whereof I speak.
Now, THE ASHPHALT JUNGLE is not a bad film. In fact, it's really well-made. It's an intelligent, talky movie, that rejects glamour and unrealistic capers for a gritty, crime procedural. Cinematic genius, John Huston, crafts a tight script full of twists, turns, double-crosses and snappy one-liners from the novel by W.R.Burnett (the guy behind the screenplay for THE GREAT ESCAPE.) The really NEW thing about the film when it was first released was that it dared to tell a story about criminals who looked and acted like your average boring old middle-aged men and who lived in depressingly ordinary dingy apartments. The movie DARED to just spend time with differing sets of people just sitting around talking in dingy rooms.
To that end, it cast character actors rather than big Hollywood stars of the Bogart variety. The movie stars Sam Jaffe (sadly best known for being a victim of McCarthy's Red Lists) as a criminal master-mind called Doc Erwin Riedenschneider. (Now that's a Gene Wilder character waiting to happen!) The Doc may look like just another sad old man, but he's planning one last audacious jewel heist before retiring to Mexico where he can fondle pretty young women. He assembles a squad of similarly anonymous-looking men to pull off the heist - a fence, a safe-cracker, some muscle...Louis Calhern plays the fence, Alonzo Emerich - an old man with a sinister relationship to his "niece" - a cameo debut for Marilyn Monroe. The muscle is provided by an improbably named man called Dix Handley. Dix is played by Sterling Hayden, probably best known to modern viewers as General Jack D. Ripper, the man who looks scarily like Dubya and was petrified that Communists were after his precious bodily fluids in DR STRANGELOVE.
The actors are all fine as is the editing (George Boehmer and deceptively simple, austere black and white photography by Harold Rosson. What little we hear of the orchestral score by Miklós Rózsa is also fine, but for the most part the realistic tone of the movie is maintained by having no formal score - just "natural" sound effects.
The problem is that everything is fine but pedestrian. To modern eyes and ears what little action there is is spread too thin and the supposedly ground-breaking psychological insights look a little out-dated in the wake of movies such as THE GODFATHER and INFERNAL AFFAIRS. Even the twists and turns look quaint compared to THE USUAL SUSPECTS - a movie that was evidently heavily influenced by THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. And this brings me to the rub. If you're an hnest punter looking for a good night out, you probably won't enjoy THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. It's just too slow and too - well - obvious in its plotting - for jaded, modern viewers. Fans of film history aside, the movie has aged too badly to hold the general audience's interest. Its ordinariness was once its novelty - now it is its failing.
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE was originally released in 1950. It is currently on re-release in the UK. The movie is also available on DVD but be careful you're not getting the colourised version - unless of course you're delusional and actually WANT the colourised version.
Labels: black and white, drama, george boehmer, john huston, marilyn monroe, rozzers
Grano1 9/11/06 12:49 PM
Speaking of John Huston, I wonder if his WISE BLOOD is ever going to make it to DVD? I've seen some 'Region 0' copies on the net but I'm wary of those; they tend to be low-qual Asian imports.
StellaTennantFreak 18/8/17 4:38 AM
I love this film and watch it often. I saw it earlier this year at the Noir City in San Francisco. The audience appreciated the film


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I//M's Debut Album Certified Insufficient by Side Line Magazine!
By Preykonis on May 7, 2018
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial, electro-rock.
Background/Info: Hailing from Albany (USA) I never heard of Iconoclast Messiah before. I found out that an EP "My Life" was released before this debut album featuring 11 songs.
Content: I didn't know anything before listening to "Praesagium", but instantly felt this band was hailing from the USA. There's a kind of industrial- and electro-rock style, which is quite typical for American artists. The production is somewhat raw and unpolished mixing guitar sounds and electronics. Sometimes a bit bombastic and often supported by dark atmospheres the album is mixing different influences together.
+ + + : I noticed a few melodic passages, which inject some harmony to the work. I prefer the songs with an extra- and explicit electro flavor on top. The most noticeable song appears to be "The Fall" featuring female backing vocals adding an angelic- and emotional touch to the work.
– – – : You can feel this album is more like exorcising early ideas instead of an accomplished production. The songs are suffering from an undermined production process. There's less difference between verses and choruses.
Conclusion: Just with many other debut albums this band has to gain experience and maturity while moving on to find their own style and improving the global production.
Best songs: "The Fall", "Easin'it".
Rate: (5).
Artist: www.facebook.com/iconoclast.messiah
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Hunt Midwest Expands Senior Housing Outside the Kansas City Metro
Planned Communities Include Florida and Tennessee
KANSAS CITY, MO – March 5, 2018 – Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development has acquired a 6.4-acre site in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, advancing plans to build its first senior housing community outside the Kansas City metro.
The Capstone at Royal Palm, an assisted living and memory care community, will feature 84 well-appointed studio and one- and two-bedroom suites with accommodations for up to 114 residents. The two-story, 76,200 square foot community will exhibit a resort-like feel with Mediterranean architecture and lush, tropical landscaping throughout its expansive grounds. Residents will enjoy an assortment of spacious and inviting indoor and outdoor amenities designed to promote an engaging, social lifestyle including a great room, formal dining room, fitness center, bistro lounge, sunroom, walking trails, gazebo and dog park. The Capstone at Royal Palm's memory care neighborhood will offer specialized care in a secure environment.
"To continue our growth in the senior housing space, Hunt Midwest began looking at dynamic markets in the southeast to develop first-class assisted living and memory care communities," said Ora Reynolds, president and CEO of Hunt Midwest. "About that time, the Village of Royal Palm Beach recognized a desire to provide its senior population with assisted living and memory care services in quality projects or risk losing their residents to neighboring communities. The timing was ideal for us to meet that need, which led to our purchase of this highly desirable infill site right on Okeechobee Boulevard just three-fourths of a mile west of Highway 441 / State Road 7."
With this expansion into the southeast comes a new partnership for Hunt Midwest, who has aligned with Integral Senior Living (ISL) to operate The Capstone at Royal Palm. "We know that having an accomplished operating partner is paramount to the success of our senior housing communities," said Reynolds. "ISL has set the benchmark nationally with the superior level of care it provides to its residents. ISL's upstanding reputation and history of sustainable property management is consistent with the values and goals set by our team at Hunt Midwest. Its knowledge and experience in the senior housing industry will make The Capstone at Royal Palm a premier community for seniors in Palm Beach County."
Construction will commence on The Capstone at Royal Palm in the fall of 2018 with an anticipated project completion in late 2019. Hunt Midwest utilized Rocky Goins and Associates, LLC as land acquisition consultant and has selected Pi Architects to lead the overall design. Proctor Construction will serve as the general contractor.
In addition to the purchase of the Royal Palm Beach site, Hunt Midwest recently signed contracts to purchase land in Mt. Juliet and in Gallatin, two high growth suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee for the construction of additional Capstone senior housing communities.
About Hunt Midwest
Hunt Midwest is a full-service real estate development company with a focus on industrial, commercial, retail, mission critical, multifamily, seniors housing and master planned communities. Its portfolio is anchored by SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business complex. Hunt Midwest is a Kansas City-based, privately held company owned by the Lamar Hunt family. The Hunt family business is a diverse portfolio of entities involved in real estate, sports/media, energy/resources, private equity and investments. Marquee entities include the Kansas City Chiefs, Hunt Midwest, Hunt Southwest, FC Dallas Soccer Club, Toyota Stadium, Chicago Bulls and United Center. More information at HuntMidwest.com.
About ISL
Integral Senior Living (ISL) manages a progressive selection of more than 85 senior residences to meet the growing needs of today's aging population. It manages independent, assisted living and memory care properties in more than 18 states. Ranked among the nation's largest senior living providers, according to Senior Living Executive, ISL is founded on a care philosophy that fosters dignity and respect for residents and promotes their independence and individuality. The dedicated associates at each community are trained to maintain the highest standards of senior care services. For more information about ISL, visit Integral Senior Living's website, blog and Facebook page. ISL's sister development company, ISL Ventures, LLC, works nationally with strategic partners to identify, create, evaluate, design and secure development and acquisition opportunities which will thrive under ISL's management.


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BSkyB merger referral reprieve
Confirming Ofcom's recommendation of a referral, Hunt said that in accordance with his duties to meet relevant parties, he met with News Corporation on 6 January to set out the process that he would follow and briefly explain Ofcom's conclusions. "Having informed them of the process I then wrote to News Corporation and BSkyB on 7 January enclosing a copy of Ofcom's Report. In this letter I explained that I was minded to refer the case to the Competition Commission but that I would receive written, and if necessary oral, representations from them if they wanted to challenge my thinking," he said. "On 10 January I met with Ofcom to seek clarification on a number of aspects of their report."
BSkyB and News Corporation provided written representations challenging elements of Ofcom's report on 13th and 14th January respectively. After considering these responses Hunt met again with News Corporation on 20th January to hear representations on the issues they highlighted.
"As a result of these meetings and my consideration of the Ofcom report and subsequent submissions from the parties involved I still intend to refer the merger to the Competition Commission. On the evidence available, I consider that it may be the case that the merger may operate against the public interest in media plurality," he said.
Hunt admitted, however,that before doing so, it was right that he consider any undertakings in lieu offered by any merging party which have the potential to prevent or otherwise mitigate the potential threats to media plurality identified in the Ofcom report.
"News Corporation says that it wishes me to consider undertakings in lieu which it contends could sufficiently alleviate the concerns I have such that I should accept the undertakings instead of making a reference. It is appropriate for me to consider such undertakings. In considering whether to accept undertakings in lieu, I will ask the Office of Fair Trading, under section 93 of the Enterprise Act 2002 as an expert public body with experience in negotiating undertakings in lieu, to be involved in the process from this stage. I will also ask Ofcom under section 106B for advice whether undertakings in lieu address the potential impact on media plurality," he said.
"If this process produces undertakings in lieu which I believe will prevent or otherwise mitigate the merger from having effects adverse to the public interest, and which I propose to accept, I will then publish the undertakings in lieu and (as required under the Act) begin a formal 15 day consultation period during which time all interested parties will be able to express their views.
"It is in the nature of this process that I cannot give clear dates for each step as we move forward. My main concern is not to work to an arbitrary timetable but to ensure that I reach my decision in a fair and even-handed way which is transparent and ensures that all concerns are properly considered."
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Q: jboss fatal starting deployment Trying to start JBoss EAP 6.2.3.GA I get the errors:

14:31:43,523 WARN  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 18) JBAS015005: Reliable deployment behaviour is not possible when auto-deployment of exploded content is enabled (i.e. deployment without use of ".dodeploy"' marker files). Configuration of auto-deployment of exploded content is not recommended in any situation where reliability is desired. Configuring the deployment scanner's auto-deploy-exploded setting to "false" is recommended.
14:31:44,977 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 18) JBAS014613: Operation ("add") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "myear.ear")]) - failure description: "JBAS014803: Duplicate resource [(\"deployment\" => \"myear.ear\")]"
14:31:44,977 ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) "JBAS014784: Failed executing subsystem deployment-scanner boot operations"
14:31:44,977 WARN  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) JBAS015000: Cannot delete deployment progress marker file U:\JBOSS_CFG\deployments\myear.ear.isdeploying
14:31:45,025 FATAL [org.jboss.as.server] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015957: Server boot has failed in an unrecoverable manner; exiting. See previous messages for details.
14:31:45,042 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (MSC service thread 1-5) JBAS015950: JBoss EAP 6.2.3.GA (AS 7.3.3.Final-redhat-3) stopped in 10ms
14:31:45,042 WARN  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment.scanner] (DeploymentScanner-threads - 1) JBAS015000: Cannot delete deployment progress marker file U:\JBOSS_CFG\deployments\mywar.war.isdeploying

A: I solved setting Auto-deploy Zipped to false.

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This topic introduces the features of Security Analytics Administration System view.
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More Inflated FCC Indecency Complaints
by Adam Thierer on September 9, 2009 · 27 comments
Over at Ars Technica, Matt Lasar does a nice job pointing out how the FCC's quarterly indecency complaint totals have again been inflated by one group: the Parents Television Council. This is something Lasar has written about before and he's one of the few journalists who continues to ask sharp questions about the ongoing manipulation of these statistics by PTC. As Lasar notes in his latest piece:
for the first quarter of this year, show the viewers relatively calm at 578 complaints in January, then 505 in February, followed by 179,997 in March? 179,997? Um, did we miss something? Did television really get that much more indecent in March? No worries. In these situations, we know what to do. We go over and check out the Parents Television Council's website. And sure enough, there's a plausible instigator—a PTC viewer action alert crusade against a March 8 episode of the animated comedy show the PTC just loves to hate, Fox TV's Family Guy.
This "complaint box stuffing" is something I wrote quite a bit about in the past, especially in my 2005 paper, "Examining the FCC's Complaint-Driven Broadcast Indecency Enforcement Process." As I pointed out there, "The PTC's increasingly effective use of computer-generated campaigns against specific TV programs is a leading factor in explaining the large jump in indecency complaints in recent years." Specifically, as I noted in that paper (as well as a Supreme Court filing with my friends at CDT), the FCC quietly and without major notice made two methodological changes to its tallying of broadcast indecency complaints in 2003 & 2004 that PTC requested:
On July 1, 2003, the agency began tallying each computer-generated complaint sent to the FCC by any advocacy group as an individual complaint, rather than as one complaint as had been done previously. The advocacy group benefiting from that change had challenged the FCC to make the change by June 30th and boasted later that it was responsible for the FCC's redirection, citing reassurances of FCC commissioners.
In the first quarter of 2004 — the time when the Super Bowl incident with Janet Jackson occurred — the FCC began counting complaints multiple times if the individual sent the complaint to more than one office within the FCC. This change, which had the capability of increasing by a factor of 5 or 6 or 7 the number of complaints recorded, was noted in a footnote of that quarter's FCC Quarterly Report. The footnote acknowledged that "[t]he reported counts may also include duplicate complaints or contacts…"
As I have made clear before, I have absolutely no problem with the PTC, or any other advocacy group exercising their First Amendment rights to petition their government and make their views known. What I do have a problem with — a very big problem, in fact — is when one group so disproportionately influences the process, especially by changing the way complaints are counted. And I'm even willing to ignore the "robo-complaint" nature of their automated complaint-generation machine. After all, countless other groups use similar tactics today to flood government offices and agencies with thousands or even millions of digital form letters. But when you change the rules of the game to favor you and your preferred outcome, well, that's just shameful.
What's even more troubling about the way the FCC changed it complaint counting process to make the PTC happy is that the agency failed to provide the public official notice of these changes outside of some limited and quite confusing fine print in the footnotes of quarterly reports. Look as hard as you want at the FCC website and you will not find any press releases or summaries of these changes during that period. And there does not appear to be any mention of these changes in any speeches by FCC Commissioners or bureau chiefs then or since. More shockingly, as far as I can tell, the FCC only made these methodological changes for indecency complaints, not for any other category of complaints that the agency receives! Finally, and probably worst of all, these bogus numbers were then used by FCC officials and congressional lawmakers as supporting evidence for the supposed public outcry for more regulation of television and radio.
It's an outrage, especially when you realize that the programs that the PTC wants censored are among the most popular on television, as I thoroughly documented in my paper. In other words, they don't speak for most of us when it comes to what we want to watch or listen to. I hope the new FCC understands these bogus indecency complaint numbers do not reflect the wishes of most consumers. Finally, those in the PTC or elsewhere who are offended by "The Family Guy" or other shows on television have plenty of tools and methods at their disposal to make sure those programs are not seen in their homes. Please don't try to impose your will on the rest of us when you have the tools at your disposal to do this job for you and your family. Let's not make Uncle Sam our National Nanny.
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Q: What property in Netbeans to I need to change to set the name of my java swing app in the OS X menubar and dock? I found info.plist, but changing @PROJECTNAMEASIDENTIFIEER@ in multiple keys here had no effect.

Thanks,
hating netbeans.

A: Check:
nbproject/project.properties

nbproject/project.xml

in project.xml look for the name element...
But... Why not just select the main project and right click and do rename?

A: The answer depends on how you run your application. If you run it from the command line, use '-Xdock:name=appname' in the JVM arguments. See the section "More tinkering with the menu bar" in the article linked to by Dan Dyer.
If you are making a bundled, double-clickable application, however, you just need to set the standard CFBundle-related keys in your application's Info.plist (see the documentation on Info.plist keys for more details).

A: This is not NetBeans-specific, but this article has some useful tips about tweaking your Swing apps so that they fit in on OS X.