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Twenty-five years ago, a teenage girl spent a majority of her Friday and Saturday nights going from one side of Main Street in Lexington to the other with an occasional side trip to the Kmart.
Twenty-five years ago, a teenage girl spent a majority of her Friday and Saturday nights going from one side of Main Street in Lexington to the other with an occasional side trip to the Kmart parking lot off Talbert Boulevard.
When she wasn't repetitively going back and forth, she would park her battered Toyota Corolla on the uptown thoroughfare and perch on its hood for hours. She would wear her off-the shoulder, neon pink T-shirt, skin-tight jeans and mile-high hair that took at least half a can of hair spray to achieve the desired poof on top and three-inch wings on the sides.
The reasoning behind this rather odd behavior was to see and be seen by other teenagers in the area. You see, cruising was "the thing" for teenagers to do if you lived in Lexington in the 1980s.
Growing up in a small town, you had to be resourceful when it came to finding things to do on the weekends. This was the age before cell phones. Because the commercial Internet was yet to be popularized, there was no Facebook or Twitter, and people actually left their house and met face to face. What better way to meet another bored teenager than to group hundreds of them together in a nightly parade of muscle cars, rock music and hormones?
The game was really simple: Girls piled into one car and boys into another. Then they would hoot and holler each time they passed each other on Main Street. Sometimes, if you were really brave, you would meet up at the parking lot at the Putt-Putt (an odd name, since there was no miniature golf; it's now a Chinese restaurant) off Talbert Boulevard to exchange phone numbers.
If you happened to have a boyfriend who had a driver's license, you showed off the fact by squeezing yourself as close as you could without actually being in his lap as you drove around and around. If you weren't old enough to drive, there was always some devoted mother, older sibling, uncle or aunt who would take pity and dutifully drive in circles to improve your social standing with your friends.
They were unaware there were adults who lived in the city who might actually want to go out at night, and there were businesses that had to clean up trash and other matter left over from the weekend cruisers.
It was a time of blissful ignorance, and like all good things it had to end. But it did not go without a fight.
The ban comes
Although the under-20 population was having the time of their lives, many of the business owners were not quite as enamored with the cruising craze. It is understandable why they would be less than supportive when they had to wash urine off of their doorsteps and pick up beer cans before opening their doors each morning.
Lee Hinkle, co-owner of Conrad & Hinkle on the Square, says the cruisers didn't affect his actual business because it was closed in the evenings, but cleaning up the mess was tiresome.
"Since we are off the main road, our corner was kind of dark, and people would go there to use the bathroom," he said. "They would leave beer bottles lying around or leave their cars in our parking lot overnight. That really irritated my Dad. He was in favor of banning cruising, although I remember doing it myself."
The first attempt to curtail this boisterous activity came in 1987 with a ban on parking on Main Street where people were not allowed to park any longer than two hours without being ticketed. People would simply make a circuit down Main Street and find a different parking place, so this ban did not have the desired effect.
Finally in April 1988, the Lexington City Council passed an ordinance banning cruising on Main Street. The ordinance prohibited driving past a downtown traffic control point more than five times within a two-hour period from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. The maximum penalty was a $200 fine or 30 days in jail.
No cruising signs were installed throughout uptown, and the decades-long tradition was finally brought to its knees, but not quite dead.
With the ingenuity of youth, the cruisers simply moved their operation to the Kmart parking lot off of Talbert Boulevard, but it wasn't too long before these former Main Street mongrels were run off again, and cruising was officially over in Lexington.
Former Lexington Mayor Richard Thomas, who was on the city council at the time the ban was enacted, said the problem wasn't as huge as everyone thought it was at the time, but the elected officials had to make a decision for the welfare of all the citizens.
"There was no criminal activity, but there were a few rowdy people," Thomas said. "We had older people who would come uptown in the evenings who felt intimidated by some of the groups that were hanging around. We also had business owners who had damage to their storefronts."
He said that the biggest challenge was taking away the public nuisance and providing a place for citizens to gather in an orderly fashion.
"We understood that it was a balancing act," Thomas said. "As always there was a difference in opinion between generations. My generation didn't have this problem; we couldn't afford to have a car. We understood their frustration, but the council wanted to make Lexington a pleasant place for everyone, not just the kids."
Protesters speak up
Usually when the "grown-ups" make a decision, teenagers will grumble and find a different outlet for their activities. But this time, the Lexington City Council was met with a tidal wave of protesters when they banned cruising, and some of them were actually adults.
Ronnie Garris was in his early 30s at the time and owned an auto detail shop on Main Street. He led the mostly teenage-based movement to protest the ban and created the group Cruisers for Constitutional Rights.
"Cruising has been part of America's history since the invention of the automobile," Garris said. "We felt that they were taking away our history. I always thought it was unfair to punish a whole group for the misdeeds of a few."
The protests included attending city council meetings to voice their opinions for people who wanted to keep cruising legal, even if in a limited form, and picketing in front of the police station.
"We were willing to compromise, but the city council just did whatever they wanted no matter how many people protested," Garris said.
Even some business owners didn't have an issue with cruising. Frankie Nance, owner of Army Navy Store on North Main Street, said he never had a problem with the youths hanging out at his place, which was dubbed "redneck corner." He admits that he was in his 30s himself in those days and may have been swayed by the fact that the youths were actually shopping at his store.
"I think the whole thing was blown out of proportion," Nance said. "We stayed open on Friday and Saturday night, and I never saw any problems. Besides, that was during the whole Garth Brooks era, and we were selling a lot of those shirts to the kids at the time."
Garris said the whole issue for the city was being able to maintain law and order and to give emergency vehicles unhindered access down Main Street.
"The city didn't like the fact that they had to pay for extra police on Friday and Saturday, but that is what we pay taxes for, isn't it?" Garris asked. "I agree that some kind of a change was needed, but they could have gone about it a different way."
Garris says the Lexington Police were not very happy about the protest, especially when it involved dozens of teenagers picketing in front of the police station.
"They tried to deny us a parade permit to protest," Garris said. "Eventually they granted us one because they had to, but they put a lot of pressure on us afterwards."
Cruising social media
It has been 25 years since the ban on cruising was adopted and in this day of social media the memories can still be found. There is actually a Facebook page devoted to the days of cruising in Lexington at www.facebook.com/groups/42400772613.
Here are some of the posts from that site:
Beth Lipford posted: "Most thing's that were done on main street can't ever be repeated, after all most of us have children now and they would never believe their boring parent's could ever be that wild … I remember spinning tires at the light and smoke rollin in my dad's grand prix. (When) the light changed a stupid little mustang got the ticket for street racin cause I WAS GONE!"
Mike "Skeeter" Yarbrough posted: "I started cruising and hanging out on Main street in 1984, from redneck corner, the little white building, my old buddies at Custom Scooter or just sitting on Court House steps. Great memories, so many of my friends have left this world. I will forever remember the good times we all had back then. I think the 80's were some of the best years of my life. To all the teenagers of the 1980's thanks for all the great memories."
Changes come to Main Street
Five years after the cruising ban was enforced, the City of Lexington initiated its Main Street Program to revitalize the uptown business district. Anyone who remembers how Main Street used to look cannot help but notice the changes.
Where once there was empty store after empty store, there is now a thriving hub of small businesses. Where once there was only trash-strewn sidewalks, there is now a lovely row of trees. And when it used to take at least 25 minutes to go from Char's parking lot to the Catholic church parking lot because of all the cars, now it is the sidewalks that are crowded in the evenings from all citizens young and old attending an Uptown Summer Stroll.
Former mayor Thomas says he is amazed at how uptown Lexington has changed.
"The kids who were cruising then are bringing their children to Main Street now, but it is totally different," Thomas said. "It is such a change because of the new leadership we have and the merchants who have become active in the community. I am so proud of how different the setting is now from what it was back then."
Even though most former cruisers are pleased with the changes to Lexington's Main Street, there is an undeniable ache for the nostalgia of those days.
Nance still has adults who used to hang out on his corner as youths visit his store today.
"At least once every month or so, someone will come in and ask if I remember them," Nance said. "They always have good memories from cruising and some good stories, too."
Garris may have the right frame to put around this iconic time in Lexington's history for those who lived it.
"It was the meeting place, a place just to hang out, and people loved it," he said. "It was one of the best times of my life."
Sharon Myers can be reached at 249-3981, ext, 228 or at email@example.com.


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Description: Duluth Mayor Don Ness has proposed what some are calling a "game changing" plan for the Canal Park waterfront area. The changes would include moving the Irvin Tour Boat further down the harbor and capping the Minnesota Slip to use for surface parking.
And "Project Care" on the Iron Range has just opened its fourth free clinic location to serve those who do not have health insurance.
Guests: Don Ness, Duluth Mayor; Scott Miller, Canal Park Business Association; Carrie Estey-Dix, "Project Care" Executive Director; Rob Tomassoni, "Project Care" Board Member; Dr. Bob Rutka, "Project Care" Volunteer Physician

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LOL this is the weekly ask
My only other addition is install and set up torque and dish.
Torque is a decent queuing system. Everybody queue up a job to do "something" as quickly as possible, but strictly one at a time.
The DISH distributed shell lets you run a single command line (which could be a script...) on all machines right now. Simultaneously or whatever.
Puppet would be the perfect tool for the job, but there may be a reason he can't use Puppet.
If that's the case, set up your own repo. Mirror Ubuntu's repo, and configure all of the systems to only connect to your repo. Set them to automatically update nightly, and bob's your uncle. If you want to push something to the computers, then push it to your repo and they will update during the overnight push
Here is the link to Ubuntu's custom install CD article: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization [ubuntu.com]. Create your own custom installer, and use that to image all the laptops.
Except 30 nodes is going to cost several thousand dollars for the licensing. It'd be cheaper to hire the local neighborhood kid to sit there for an afternoon and do them individually. For that you could buy and image a new set of drives. Would 32-gig USB thumb drives be big enough for your install, allowing you to usb boot the machines? Or perhaps create a custom Live-CD, which has the advantage that you simply reboot the machine if the user dorks it up?
Say what? [puppetlabs.com]
Either I'm missing something obvious, or it's free for 10-nodes and you start paying quite a bit for anything beyond that.
http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/how-to-buy/ [puppetlabs.com]
Node Packs
25 $1,995
100 $6,995
250 $16,995
500 $29,995
1,000 $55,995
More than 1,000 Contact firstname.lastname@example.com
I use puppetmaster on more than 10 machines. I guess these prices are for the "enterprise* Version which offers VMWare management, GUI and many more features. All unneeded for me.
PS: try # apt-get install puppetmaster
Either I'm missing something obvious, or it's free for 10-nodes and you start paying quite a bit for anything beyond that. http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/how-to-buy/ [puppetlabs.com]
Node Packs Puppet Enterprise with Standard Support and Maintenance
25 $1,995
100 $6,995
250 $16,995
500 $29,995
1,000 $55,995
More than 1,000 Contact firstname.lastname@example.com
You DID miss something. You pay those prices if you want SUPPORT for the licenses. If you can support yourself, just use the Open Source version. Sort of like RHEL vs Fedora
You DID miss something. You pay those prices if you want SUPPORT for the licenses. If you can support yourself, just use the Open Source version. Sort of like RHEL vs Fedora
No. There's plenty functionality [puppetlabs.com] you get in the Enterprise version that you don't get in the open source version, so nothing like RHEL vs CentOS (which I assume is what you meant). If you want those features you'll be paying whether you want support or not.
Either I'm missing something obvious
You're missing something really, really obvious. The prices you quote are for PuppetLabs support (Enterprise Puppet). Open Source Puppet is free. Tree it: "apt-get install puppetmaster". I've had ~400 servers running from a single Puppetmaster instance (~4800 divergences per. hour).
Having said all of that, I'd recommend Chef over Puppet these days. Again, Open Source Chef will work perfectly well for free, or you can pay Opscode for support.
If you've got a month to learn puppet and master it, and a test bed of one each of the different designated configurations of the laptops, puppet can be very useful. If the laptops need to be _identical_ in configuration, you want a nightly imaging tool such as is used in public computer labs, not a highly context sensitive configuration management tool. This is especially true if people will be manipulating the configurations locally: the ability to ruin a configuration managed file service or website depl
And a horrible delay when anything is started. And no security updates. And no way to install anything. And no support for proprietary video drivers. And unlikely to have working power management, combined with horrendous boot time.
Take a look at debian-installer and preseed, rather simular to kickstart for anaconda based installers, or sysprep for Windows. You can probably push the images out over the network via FTP or NFS.
Then you will want to look at making a local apt mirror or cache depending on your needs, to manage updates and such.
This is at a minimum. NIS or LDAP might also be required if you intend to grow the network.http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/02/26/1730239/ask-slashdot-how-do-you-install-ubuntu-on-30-laptops-and-k
This isn't rocket science and a ton of sysadmins read slashdot (still). There's 2 parts to this: deployment (foreman or cobbler to handle the pxe and kickstart configs) and then configuration management (stuff like puppet, chef or cfenine).
use Clonezilla to make a image and just deploy the image to all systems. To make going back easier make a image of the windows install or pull the hdd and just use different HDD's for the event.
If so, you may want to consider yanking the drives and iSCSI booting them. I know at least with Fedora and RHEL/CentOS you can do this, I presume Ubuntu can as well. Set root-path in dhcp in accordance with rfc4173 and boot iPXE. From there take any PXE-capable deployment mechanism and you can proceed without removing or resizing the partitions.
If only 30 and you lack the experience in this area, you may elect to hand tweak an autoinstall situation. I'm not sure if you need to be particularly picky about 'cloning'. In MS it's almost mandatory as so much of the value of an install is in third-party applications. In the ubuntu case all the packages you want are likely already in the distro and debian-installer is really all you need.
All this said, Live usb key is probably the easiest thing. Stock Ubuntu probably suffices...
I'd say a 16GB flash drive is large enough to not only boot but run Ubunta. Simply build a custom installation and install it to the flash drives. Pull the drives from the laptops though you need to record what machine they came from for reinstall and configure them to boot from usb. Problem solved and if someone borks the system, simply swap a good stick and reimage. Keep in mind that you can probably get 50+ 16GB flash drives for pretty cheap. This gives you several spares for those who decide to take it
Use ltsp https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP
Supports fat clients (all aplications run at each laptop).
You only need to install ubuntu in one laptop and let all others boot from the first one with ipxe.
All laptops (apart from the first) are left unchanged.
Very good implementation (solving some minor issues that may arise) used at many greek schools:
https://launchpad.net/sch-scripts (all documentation is in greek)
Well, you can PXE boot LTSP over wifi if you have a wireless bridge. It's not exactly reliable though, at least it wasn't when I tried it last year.
Where I work we have 300 remote locations running LTSP on lucid. One server at each location, perhaps as many as a dozen thin clients using PXE boot. We built our own update mechanism, where the LTSP servers rsync a directory tree that contains the updates. Anything new, they run the update. If an update fails for whatever reason they send an email back to hq. I
Debian (and thus Ubuntu) comes with a Fully Automated Installer (shortened as FAI). Take a look at synaptic, and at its manual.
The whole thing seems like a rather silly question for a platform that already has a very mature automated installer.
'spect you're right, but reading down, yours was the first condescending answer that also offered no help.
In the engineering fields I'm experienced in, I find newbie questions produce alternative answers from other people that I've not come across before...
It can be quite helpful to mention the obvious when people seem hell bent on ignoring it for no good reason.
'spect you're right, but reading down, yours was the first condescending answer that also offered no help.
In the engineering fields I'm experienced in, I find newbie questions produce alternative answers from other people that I've not come across before...
In the engineering fields I am experienced in (software and embedded systems), I usually find newbie questions gathering answers from people working in the fields I would rather prefer never being involved (Windows GUI development, marketing, being a high school dropout, etc.)
Remove the HDs Boot from a CD (live CD distro), allow user-owned USB drives for persistent storage. Optionally, customize the live CD to your needs, installing and removing packages to suit the task. Red
Honestly, for the situation OP's in (obviously a relative noob to true sysadmin if he has to ask) this is the easiest and best solution. Only issues he might have are dhcp and dns, given we know nothing about his network environment. This and similar posts should be modded up. Ye ole Keep It Simple Stupid Rule applies here for sure! Oh, and be explicit as LiveCD also applies to DVD, i.e., a DVD has more space (dual layer at 8.5 GB) and can hold a larger live image.
Step 1: Ignore StackOverflow, Ubuntu forums, or other sites that will give more accurate info. Instead ask on a site with people of questionable talent and experience with what you're using.
Step 2: Implement poorly researched solution and fck up the entire project
They'll say Landscape. http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/landscape [canonical.com]
$105/year Desktop
$320/year Server
For 'bulk' (more than 5) contact them for "special" pricing.
I wish they didn't do this, I'd love to try it and use it myself, locally hosted.
But I'm NOT paying them for the feature.
They proclaim the wonders of Open Source and Ubuntu - then go and drop in closed-source crap that there is no replacement for. Hack something yourself, or pay them stupid amounts of money to use what cam
I recently was in the same bind, with a bunch of desktops instead. I was given the task of backup and restoration of 50 desktops in a Computer Science student lab at the uni I work for. I decided to go the route of a Clonezilla server for backup and restoration. All the machines are Dell Optiplex 755's stock, with Windows 7 and Linux Mint Debian Edition dual boot. They all have 120 gb harddrives. I used an unused 1u server and bought 4 2tb Seagate harddrives off Newegg. The lab is wired with cat 6 and is a gigabit network. On average with the server setup it takes about 10 minutes to image all the machines and about 5 or so to restore them all. The server can do this by taking advantage of multicasting. It's easy to setup and the best thing is it only images the used parts of the harddrives. This means in my case each machine's image with both OS is only around 15-20 gigs. Hope this helps.
On the sever what is taking up 4 TB2 hdd's? I hope it is in some kind of raid setup.
15-20 gigs seems small for a dual boot OS I take it is basic install lacking lot's of added software on each os.
Are there more then 1 image say with differnt software loads?
How often are the images updated?
" RAID is for speed. Speed in access or speed in recovery, nothing more."
Actually, RAID [wikipedia.org] does quite a bit more than for which you credit it.
simple - chef:
http://www.opscode.com/chef/ [opscode.com]
FOG is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP, Vista and 7 that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. FOG doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the k
PXE + Kickstart (Ubuntu Equivalent) + CFengine + mrepo + Handfull of simple scripts = Cloned machines environment.
I have this setup at work and new users pick their Red Hat choice (They are given a short list) and kickstart, some scripts and CFengine takes care of the rest. Need to make a changes to 300+ Linux Desktops? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done. Need to force certain packages on? Update CFengine and wait until it's hourly run happens and you're done.
Half way through that I branch off to rsync to populate the system. Then I SSH in via the IPv6 pre-configure link-local address and custom tweak. Reboot. Done.
Oh, and there are alternatives to PXE, like USB memory sticks.
Exactly! I may not understand the problem, but if they have working copies of XP, why not set up a VM for VMWare Player, install it on the clients, then copy the VM over.
Seems like a hell of a lot easier than trying to automate changes to hard drive partitions. (Which is an interesting thing to do, though.)
I did that for a bank of 10 machines 12 years ago. They are still asking this question today?
If you only have 30 machines for one event, puppet/cfengine is overboard. Just set up a passwordless SSH key for root (remember NOT to put the private key on the laptops), and just use a simple script to send the same commands to every laptop.
You forgot error recovery and logging. So PC #25 was rebooting while your script ran... does that make the script fail, perhaps silently? Does that mean all the PCs except #25 are OK, or #25-(end of list) fail? How do you know to rerun the script later? How many times do you have to run it by hand to "make sure" it ran on all machines? You can add logging and some sort of retry mechanism... Just remember that those who try not to use puppet, end up rewriting puppet, just takes a long time and painful bugs. apt-get install puppetmaster on the main and apt-get install puppet on the remotes is just too easy to bother writing a clone of puppet out of shell scripts.
Puppet is much like AFS or LDAP or well, practically any service, the first time you set it up you're all "WTF?" and the second time its no big deal. Google for some tutorials, screencasts... Doing a really halfway job writing it yourself is terrifyingly harder than just using puppet.
You forgot error recovery and logging. So PC #25 was rebooting while your script ran... does that make the script fail, perhaps silently? Does that mean all the PCs except #25 are OK, or #25-(end of list) fail? How do you know to rerun the script later? How many times do you have to run it by hand to "make sure" it ran on all machines? You can add logging and some sort of retry mechanism... Just remember that those who try not to use puppet, end up rewriting puppet, just takes a long time and painful bugs. apt-get install puppetmaster on the main and apt-get install puppet on the remotes is just too easy to bother writing a clone of puppet out of shell scripts.
The submitter wants max 30 machines, and only for a limited time. Telling him to learn how to use puppet would waste his time. If he just wants to install a piece of forgotten software after the event has started, a quick (bash runonallmachines.sh apt-get install foobar) could print out the info to stdout, and reading through 30 such messages isn't that big of a deal. Sure, if this were a long term project, or if he had more machines, puppet would make sense, but why not stick with something easier to us
> Just set up a passwordless SSH key for root
No. If you worked for me and I caught you doing this, I would first write you up for a direct security violation, and if I caught you doing it again I would fire you. Passphrase free keys leave your deployed network vulnerable to anyone who can steal the key from the hacked server, backup, or anyone who manages to walk off with that key by other means. Doing this is as bad, if not worse, than putting a post-it note with the rude password on your desktop monitor.
Setting up an ssh-agent to passphrase wrap such a remote root access key is a basic step. Restricting remote access to the designated management server is another basic step in protecting such a network from root key theft. Throwing such unprotected keys around is unfortunately, a very common practice among systems people who believe that "if they're inside our network, we have much bigger problems". Since these machines are laptops, they will be walking into and out of the network, and it's reasonable to assume that the network will be attacked from a machine inside. Basic security practices, such as system updates, password expiration, and access key handling should all get some attention to protect the network.
Throwing such unprotected keys around
You did notice I said NOT to have the private keys on the laptops themselves? The submitter wants something easy to use for a limited period of time (an event). Chances are, submitter won't even encrypt the drives, so there's not much preventing a bad apple from throwing their own passwordless ssh public key on the laptop. But once that happens, all they have access to is 30 laptops which can all be reimaged in no time, and they would be at the end of the event. Whoopie.
Doing this is as bad, if not worse, than putting a post-it note with the rude password on your desktop monitor.
Did you mean root password? Anyw
Doing this is as bad, if not worse, than putting a post-it note with the rude password on your desktop monitor.
Not if you have a reasonably sane method of securing the private keys. I'm not advocating password-less keys, but that comparison is WAY overboard.
What if you install a virtual machine once, and then copy it over to the other machines?
Also, if everything else fails (my apologies for saying this but somehow you don't give out a vibe that you are on top of the situation) is it the question for people to be able to use laptops, but not being able to mess around on them? Then I guess your final -and easy- option is to just open accounts for them in the existing OSes, and tell them to act civilized. Is that an option?
open accounts for them in the existing OSes
Sorry, I just saw that it has to be Ubuntu- how about wubi [ubuntu.com]? It is a windows-based Ubuntu installer, it installs an Ubuntu system without partitioning that stands as a cluster of files in the host windows, it is not virtualised (both systems don't run at the same time) and if you carefully set up the boot loaders on the other machines, you only need to copy over one (huge) file -the "image"- into the other machines. In addition, you will have to remove the option of booting to Windows, and then go in via a b
Why bother with virtual machines? He can just tar the partitions of one machine, and copy them into the other machines. Then, copy
But still, that is more work than it should take.
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"


text: In Sharon's election on Tuesday, Selectman William Heitin faces a challenge from Steven Ross, a primary care physician who said he is running, in part, because his patients tell him they are moving out of Sharon because taxes are too high. Ross also said he would like to make government committees more representative of Sharon's diversity. Heitin, a partner in an asset management firm, said he hopes to complete ongoing initiatives, such as attracting businesses like the Sharon Commons development that will shift some of the tax burden away from residents. He also aims to identify a new public water source, he said, and to see to fruition a solar facility that would reduce town electricity costs by about 50 percent. In another race, for School Committee, Marcy Kaplan and incumbents Jeff Cruzan and Emily Smith-Lee are running for two seats.


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Years of heavy fishing pressure on Orange Roughy caused significant declines in their abundance. In recent years, there has been some improvement in the management of the Orange Roughy fisheries and some populations are rebuilding; however, other remain depleted.
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A meeting at the net
Ryan Stefani (left) and his mother, Dawn Stefani (right) of Kane meet at the net during a "friendly" game of tennis Monday at the courts at Evergreen Park in Kane. Ryan will enter his sophomore year next month at Kane Area High School. The tennis courts and basketball court at the park are seeing plenty of action lately in the beautiful summer weather.


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Day one of the State Co-Ed Track and Field Meet was a success for Marion County athletes as 34 events were in action and 13 of those earned medals, including one state championship.
Highlighting the day was Twin Cedars Lindsay Hoehns who repeated as the Class 1A Girls Long Jump State Champion with a jump of 18 feet, 3 ¼ inches, then finished third in the Class 1A Girls 400 meter dash an hour later with a new school record time of 58.13.
Pella's Nadine Van Zomeren finished third in the Class 3A 400 Meter Dash, as did the Knoxville boys 4×800 relay team of Jamie Vanderveer, Blake Washington, Blake Wyatt and Alex Edwards.
Pella's 4×800 boys team of Grant Gustafson, Todd Wegter, Zach Wittenberg and Richie Bales , Knoxville's Harlan Sytsma in the Class 3A boys 400 meter dash, and PCM's Jordan Wood in the Class 2A girls Long Jump all finished fifth, and Pella's Zach Wittenberg finished sixth in the 3A boys 3200 meter run.
The Pella Christian boys earned two medals as the 4×800 relay team of Zach Vos, Josh Meyer, Devin Veenstra and Skyler Giddings finished seventh, and Vos was seventh in the Class 2A boys 400 meter dash.
Three other events guaranteed themselves of medals on Saturday by qualifying for finals in their respective events through preliminary races . Pella's Brett Bogaard ran the fastest time in the Class 3A boys 200 meter dash prelims and the second fastest time in the 100 prelims and proved himself as a definite contender for a state championship in both events and PCM's Shuttle Hurdle Relay team of Tyler Norwood, Cole Reese, Rand Hazelton and Joe Gilson ran the fifth fastest time in the Class 2A prelims advancing to the finals.
There were several other great performances that just missed out on earning medals including Chase Carlson of Pella Christian who finished 9th in the Class 2A 100 meter dash prelims and missed qualifying for the finals by .02, Austin King of Pella and Jasmin Schelhaas each missed a medal by one spot finishing ninth in their 400 meter dash races and the PCM girls Shuttle Hurdle Relay team missed qualifying for the finals by just .13.
After day one..the Knoxville boys are in a three way tie for fifth in the Class 3A team standings with 10 points while Pella is 12th with seven points. On the girls side Pella is tied for 14th with six points. In Class 2A the PCM girls are in a four way tie for 19th with four points, while the Pella Christian boys are in a foiur way tie for 20th with four points and in Class 1A the Twin Cedars girls are tied for 10th with six points.
Another full day of competition is scheduled for today at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. For results check kniakrls.com or tune to 92.1 FM KRLS for updates throughout the day.


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Springfield, FL---Without a doubt one of the more impressive high school hoops squad so far this season is Rutherford.
Coach Ross and his Rams coming off a complete beatdown of Arnold Tuesday night, taking their overall record to 7-0, two and oh in district.
The Rams will take that record on the road with them over the weekend for the inaugural Florida-Georga Shootout. That will be four teams, Rutherford, Rickards and two Atlanta area schools. And that won't be the only out of town tourney they'll take part in says Rutherford head coach Rhondie Ross.
"Going up to Atlanta, there's gonna be some teams with a lot more size, a lot more athletes. It will be good for us to go on the road and kind of measure where we are at this stage. And in a couple of weeks we'll go to the Kingdom of the Sun Tournament in Ocala. Which is an invitational, last year they had 30 coaches there, so it's gonna be an opportunity for my guys to get some exposure too."
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Skip to comments.Egyptian Cleric Clarifies His Human Groceries Comment By Justifying Taking Sex Slaves
Posted on 06/13/2011 2:05:58 PM PDT by Baynative
A couple weeks ago we showed you the shocking video of an Egyptian Muslim cleric advocating jihad and saying financial problems could be solved by selling captives like groceries. Now, that same cleric is back, and hes supposedly claiming his words were taken out of context. But the way hes defending himself is curious, especially when you consider it involves him justifying buying sex slaves.
The website Translating Jihad, which first published the earlier video, explains that in the follow-up video (which consists of a 20-minute phone interview), Egyptian Shaykh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni contends that his words in that clip were taken out of contexthe was talking within the larger topic of offensive jihad. Additionally, the site says, he explains the meaning of offensive jihad, and establishe[s] through sources in the Quran and sayings of Muhammad that both offensive jihad and the taking of spoils of war, namely slaves and sex-slaves, are legitimate under Islam.
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"Do you understand what Im saying? Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholarsthere is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on."
Excerpt includes videowith translation.
He has little patience for those whose proclivities tend toward nurturing and cultivating ( of the flocks). He scorns nurturing considering it evidence of weakness.(homophobia) He is not inclined towards cultivating crops or shepherding as his brother Jacob. He prefers to hunt and to get his food by taking it down as hunters do. Esau may well be the stereotypical hustler, predator and bad guy. Esau is forever at war among himself.
Arabs cant live together, ergo any prophesied Third Caliphate is likely doomed. Unless a new Saladin arises like Imam Hussein, there will be no Caliphate
This is nothing new. All civilizations till recently waged aggressive war on their enemies and made war pay, at least for the victorious leaders. Captives were just another form of loot, often the most valuable one.
Julius Caesar personally sold something like 2M Gauls into slavery over the course of his 10 year conquest. Which made him far and away the wealthiest man in Rome.
This continued during the Middle Ages, when ransoms of wealthy captives, usually nobles, were traded like stocks. Since you could no longer sell a non-rich captive as a slave, they were generally just killed.
During the wars in the Med between Venice, Spain and the Turks, both sides sold captives as slaves or used them to row their galleys.
The odd thing about the guy here is not his explanation of history, which is quite accurate, it's his apparent belief that this is still proper, or should be. Most of the rest of the world has moved beyond this, for all its other problems.
Of course if you believe sharia is the proper code of behavior, you're pretty much stuck with this POV. Otherwise you're forced to say Mo and the boys were wrong for all those centuries.
"What can we say about the character of Esau? Well this much we know. He scorns his spiritual inheritance and blessings. A profane man, he lives by the sword or by force of arms. Does he put his trust in guns and military armaments first and foremost? Esau was always inclined to be violent and wrathful. "
I think that you need to reread Genesis 33. You have mischaracterized Esau.
Arabs (by ethnicity) haven't controlled the caliphate since around 940. Various Kurdish, Persian, Berber, Circassian, Turkish and other groups have. Though the Prophet's relatives were kept around as a figurehead right up to the Mongol conquest.
The Mongols didn't care a hoot about such things. They rolled the last caliph up in his most expensive rug and ran a herd of horses across him.
37And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
38And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
The description of Esau as a military man comes from this prophecy, not from his actions as recorded in the Bible.
Esau had very good reason to be ticked off with his sneaky lying twin. However, as you point out chapter 33 shows he got over it and welcomed him honorably and peacefully when he could have killed him easily.
I wonder how they would feel about Christians or Jews making sex slaves of their wives / daughters after they were killed in a battle. Would they consider it allowed under the laws of Islam or would they think that was some type of atrocity? It would be an interesting exercise to see if that would be considered acceptable.
There is nothing - NOTHING - that justifies letting this band of nose-picking, crotch-grabbing homicidal savages known as Muslims have any part in the modern world.
How did we end up becoming virtually subject to them? I lived the first decades of my life in the US virtually never hearing about them, and now suddenly we care what they think and we are bowing before their brutish, violent stupidity.
I agree......the clerics explanation is quite accurate; indeed, selling POW's was the norm, until quite recently (provided they were rich, mind you).
I see two problems here. You elucidated the first one, that the rest of the world has moved on from this practice. Culturally speaking, Islam is, shall we say, reticent to change.....it is inherently traditionalistic. While this can be an admirable trait, it depends on the issue at hand, i.e., the rights of women, allowance, or at least tolerance of, other faiths, etc., etc.
The other problem is, for this cleric at least, a more personal one. When you've something appallingly stupid, it's a better course of action to not follow up with something worse.
I sincerely hope his wife, his daughter, or some random female whups him upside the head with a cast-iron frying pan, or the equivalent thereof.
Stupid should hurt.
Interesting analysis.
It's just some guy who speaks at the Mosque, or who does law cases.
It's like running an independent church with a janitor as the head guy.
Most of the IGNANCE is generated by people who really are IGNANT.
These people aren't just barbaric, they're not really in touch.
In most of the world you wouldn't go to the local auto mechanic for spiritual advice ~ but in Egypt you'd be lucky to find a guy who was that educated.
I gather from the discussions this fellow needs a date bad.
It's just some guy who speaks at the Mosque, or who does law cases.
It's like running an independent church with a janitor as the head guy.
Most of the IGNANCE is generated by people who really are IGNANT.
These people aren't just barbaric, they're not really in touch.
In most of the world you wouldn't go to the local auto mechanic for spiritual advice ~ but in Egypt you'd be lucky to find a guy who was that educated.
I gather from the discussions this fellow needs a date bad.
"The Mongols didnt care a hoot about such things. They rolled the last caliph up in his most expensive rug and ran a herd of horses across him."
When nomads were nomads and the sheep were in terror!
"How did we end up becoming virtually subject to them? I lived the first decades of my life in the US virtually never hearing about them, and now suddenly we care what they think and we are bowing before their brutish, violent stupidity."
You must have missed all those government PSAs bleating about how diversity is our strength.
This country went off the gold standard in 1971, per Nixon.
Then we had Jimmy, the Dept of Energy and the Dept of Education. It has been down hill ever since. I think it was Nixon that gave us the EPA.
Some claim that was the beginning of the rise of the Arab state. They used our US dollar to in exchange for cheap oil, some said that the dollar was backed with oil though this. Some goldbugs claim that we also gave them our gold, because the Saudi's aren't stupid. Who knows?
The end game approaches. I don't think the rest of the world will be wanting our dollars for much longer. No, they will be wanting much MORE than our money, maybe they will sell those mortgages they have been giving to Fannie and Freddie to help our banks to the Saudi's? or the Eurotrash? Some of those mortgages are sitting on the FEDs balance sheets, rotting, stinking. I am sure they want to get rid of them.
or would they think that was some type of atrocity?
/// of course they do. that is why they make false accusations of rape against Christians, including our soldiers. to raise the "righteous anger".
their scripture is very clear. you can be killed for killing a Muslim. you CANNOT be killed for killing a Christian.
they believe GOD HIMSELF has given permission to them, to take the booty and slaves of non-Muslims. it is not an interpretation. it is crystal clear in their scripture.
Mohammad HIMSELF had sex with a young captive woman, his men had just made a widow. he said you could keep what you captured "with your right hand".
...and Islam teaches he was the "perfect man", and should be emulated...
It's like running an independent church with a janitor as the head guy.
/// respectfully, it is like a janitor with at least a 4 year divinity degree. many Sunni clerics are proud of their education at top universities like Al-Azhar in Egypt.
...as comparison, Baptists may not have fancy clergy like Catholics, but they still have many highly educated ministers.
and there is much LESS difference between Sunni and Shia, than between Baptists and Catholics.
in doctrine and theology, there is almost zero difference.
(the reason for the split, was simply over whether the Caliph should be related to Mo or not.)
as Baynative said so perfectly:
" Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholarsthere is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. "
...there is no "tiny minority of extremists. "misinterpreting" their OWN religion.
yes, some Muslims are "moderate", like "cafeteria catholics".
but there is NO disagreement on this, or ANY other major point, by devout Muslims. whether Sunni or Shia.
Juet because C.A.I.R. spokesmen practice taquiyya on us, doesn't mean they don't all admit in private, that age 53 Mohammad married Aisha when she was 6, and "thighed" her until she was 9, when he began full sex with her.
the perfect man, who should be emulated...
"This is agreed to by all scholars"
I love that his "clarification" indicates that he still strongly believes in slavery, as long as it's for infidels.
It's not just insane mullahs or imams who mouth absurdities accepted as gospel by millions.
"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." --- King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993
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San Joaquin Delta College students come in all varieties, but as dozens of them crowded into a small room during their lunch hour Wednesday, it was clear they had one thing in common:
San Joaquin Delta College students come in all varieties, but as dozens of them crowded into a small room during their lunch hour Wednesday, it was clear they had one thing in common:
They were willing to save someone's life - even that of a stranger - at the simple ring of a telephone tomorrow or 20 years from now.
More than 140 students agreed to donate marrow to patients with leukemia or other blood diseases, should a match ever be identified.
They joined a growing bone-marrow registry that now has more than 14 million names of willing donors across the United States.
"I was in chemistry class when they told us about it," said 20-year-old Denise Mendez of Stockton. "I did it because my grandma just passed away two years ago from cancer."
For 22-year-old Alex Arlt, the connection was a nephew who had been sick when he was just a boy.
"But I would do it for a stranger, too," Arlt said. "Give them a second chance at life."
Delta's Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society brought organizers with the Be The Match program, part of the National Marrow Donor Program, to Delta's campus for the first time in recent memory, if ever.
What better place to seek donors than a college campus? Donors must be healthy and relatively young - from the ages of 18 to 44.
Some students had been told by their instructors of this opportunity. Others were recruited as they walked through Danner Hall. "Want to save a life?" they were asked, a question to which it was kind of hard to say no.
It was just a matter of filling out some paperwork and then brushing cotton swabs along the inside of their cheeks, collecting tissue needed to establish possible matches in the future.
No longer does donating marrow require surgery, at least in most cases.
Now blood can be drawn from the body and run through a machine that separates out the blood-forming cells. The work is done during a series of appointments over a four- to six-week period.
When Delta business and accounting instructor Chris Wardell was 3 years old, his younger brother died from leukemia. It was a devastating event that led his parents to separate and "destroyed our family," he said.
That was 1952, two decades before researchers began to investigate the possibility of bone marrow transplants.
Wardell, who advises the honor society and played a part in bringing the marrow donor event to Delta, saw every student in that room Wednesday as potentially easing the pain of some other family.
"To me, it's incredible," Wardell said. "This is just remarkable technology."
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Cape Coral artist Sandra Priest has spent a good chunk of time making sculptures out of the concrete from one of the most brutal attacks in the history of our nation.
On Saturday, she said farewell to them, as they began a national journey which began at Jet Blue Park in Fort Myers and will end in Utah, but not without making a few stops along the way.
The start of the tour was commemorated with a farewell event that featured live music from one of the music world's biggest names, as well as some of Lee County's finest as its honored guests.
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One of the artworks at Jet Blue Park before the tour last week.
It was also held as a fund-raiser for a $30 million memorial to be built to remember those who lost their lives on that day.
The tour will take two sculptures, named UT6 and All, and Star 11, on a 5,000-mile trek across the country to showcase them so people can view a piece of Sept. 11 from the slurry wall from Ground Zero.
The final destination of the artwork will be the Fort Douglas Military Museum, which will be used as a war monument to commemorate those who died from during the period of the first Iraq War until now.
The tour will make several stops along the way. The first was at the NASCAR event in Atlanta on Sunday, where it also went to an Atlanta Braves game.
It will also stop in Indianapolis, Louisville, Chicago in Daley Plaza, through St. Louis and Oklahoma, Amarillo, Texas, and then to Salt Lake City on Sept. 21.
The UT6 and All sculpture will be unveiled Oct. 7.
But first the sculptures were on display here, where people got the chance to come up close.
"They are here for people to view them and have photos taken with them and come closer to healing with 9/11," Priest said.
Priest said they were parts of the slurry wall that had to be removed to put a new subway station in. When those pieces were cut out, the CEO of the company that did the work saved some for history.
Soon after, Priest was given the honor of doing the sculpture work on the acquired concrete after they found her online, having just completed another 9/11 inspired work in 2007.
"They found me online and they hired me to do all of them. I have 11 of them around the U.S.," Priest said. "Any town that takes one has it take on a life of its own, dedicated to that area."
Priest spent anywhere from six months to a year working on them. Her "Project 11-up" program has been in business for three years.
She has also gotten help from Kay Kraft, who has guarded the concrete from the slurry wall and whose late husband dreamt of having sculptures made out of the blocks cut out of Ground Zero.
"I'm just trying to fulfill his wishes. I protect it from destruction or people trying to take something from it," Kraft said, who was emotional watching the day come to fruition. "He wanted to see something go forward, so here we are."
Not only did people get to see the sculptures, which sat on large semi trucks, but also had a chance to view other 9/11 reminders, from the fire helmet of a fallen firefighter to remnant of the Twin Towers.
They also got to see music from Diane Nagy, Bert Lynch and Nathan Osmond, the nephew of Donny and Marie Osmond.
"What an honor to be here and kick off this tour. We want people to touch, feel and heal," Osmond said. "We're raising funds to build the biggest memorial in the U.S. in honor of our gold star families who paid the ultimate price for our freedom."
The monument, which will be built in Kansas City, hopes to have enough money to start building by early 2015.
Osmond took photos with firefighters from the San Carlos Park and South Trail fire departments, which came to support the event.
"It touches everyone who works for the fire department. It's a day to remember every day for us," said Alexis Rothring, public information officer for the San Carlos Park fire district. "It's amazing to be invited and represent the districts in the area."
Also there to lend support to Priest and the event was Cape Coral Mayor John Sullivan, who always comes to support causes for veterans those who fell.
"I came to make a point. We can't ever forget what happened on 9/11 and that we should remember and thank our veterans and our way of life," Sullivan said. "We need to remember the veterans after 9/11 who protected our way of life."


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9-13-05 - Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Monday she wants more of the costs of educating schoolchildren displaced by Hurricane Katrina covered by the federal government, some education requirements eased and more local community costs reimbursed.
Hutchison filed four bills aimed at stemming local costs related to opening shelters and providing other resources to Hurricane Katrina victims.
Hutchison, a member of the Appropriations Committee, said her bills were based on conversations she had in conference calls with Texas officials whose communities have become the new home to thousands of hurricane evacuees.
Hutchison, R-Texas, said the bills would cut red tape that may be preventing full-fledged relief efforts.
"We must allow our schools to educate and our police to protect. Our potential to get the job done right is being bogged down in the long halls of bureaucracy and that needs to end," Hutchison said in a statement.
Hutchison wants to expand coverage of education expenses. A Federal Emergency Management Agency memo issued Saturday said costs for hiring additional teachers and buying textbooks were not reimbursable by the federal government.
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We stayed here for 3 night after landing at Pisa airport . The B&B was 5mins walking distance from Pisa centrale train station (regular trains here from Pisa airport - 5 min journey). The directions provided were easy to follow. B&B was situated in a beautiful period townhouse. The facilities were excellent - fully stocked bathroom, free wi-fi with good connection speed, plenty of bedding and wardrobe space, very clean. The lady, Ilaria who runs this B&B spoke excellent English, she was very warm and welcoming and gave informative advice on how to get the most out of our stay. The B&B is close to the city centre, a 15min walk north took us to bustling streets with cafes, restaurants, delis, an excellent food market and shops. Another 10 mins took us to the leaning tower. Breakfast was great, bread and wonderful espresso though I got the impression that Ilaria would be happy to provide what ever you liked. A fantastic experience all round!
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Chicago Police say Friday that Antonio Lewis is facing two counts of first-degree murder and a single count of attempted first-degree murder for the June 28 shooting that killed 31-year-old Chevonne Brown and 5-year-old Sterling Sims.
Authorities say Lewis also tried to shoot Brown's 11-year-old son, but his gun malfunctioned.
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In a 42-14 loss to UCLA, the Buffs managed just 83 yards on 30 rushing attempts. That included 37 yards on 10 fourth-quarter attempts, when the game was already decided.
"Let's give kudos to their defense. Their defense did a hell of a job," CU offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy said. "We obviously didn't click on offense for whatever reason. We have to keep grinding, we have to keep getting better."
UCLA came into the game with the 82nd-ranked run defense in the country, allowing 173.8 yards per game and 4.8 yards per attempt. CU never came close to those marks, and it didn't help that freshman tailback Christian Powell went out with a hip bruise in the first half.
The 6-foot, 235-pound Powell had 29 yards on seven attempts (4.1 per rush) when he got hurt.
"It really doesn't change too much, but at the end of the day, obviously you would like that guy in the game," Bieniemy said.
Powell's presence might have helped the Buffs on a key situation in the third quarter. CU had 3rd-and-1 from the UCLA 48-yard line, trailing 21-7. They handed the ball to 5-7, 190-pound Tony Jones who was stuffed for no gain. Then the Buffs went for it on 4th-and-1 and Jones was stuffed for no gain again. (A penalty on CU would have voided a first down on that play anyway, though).
"I think I got the first down, but with the penalty, that brought us back," Jones said. "We just have to keep grinding, we just have to keep chopping wood.
Jones, who came into the year as the starting tailback, finished with a team-best 31 yards on eight carries, but didn't have a run longer than nine yards.
"It changes things," Jones said of Powell's injury, "but at the same time, I'm ready."
Jones knows the Buffs need a full complement of backs going forward, though.
"We love Christian and definitely hope he's getting healthy," he said.
CU also used Donta Abron (19 yards on four carries) and Josh Ford (1 yard on 2 carries) during Saturday's loss.
"We've got some guys who can do some things," Bieniemy said. "We just have to hammer it out. We've just got to get better."
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OTTAWA — Tears flowed Wednesday as Jack Layton arrived in the nation's capital for the final time.
As a bagpiped lament filled the air, an honour guard of Mounties carried the late NDP leader's flag-draped casket from a hearse into a foyer of Parliament, where he will lie in state for the next two days.
The hearse carrying Layton, who died Monday after his second battle with cancer, arrived from Toronto after an hours-long drive, to a crowd of hundreds who had shown up to pay their respects.
After the RCMP officers put the casket in place in the foyer outside the House of Commons, the line soon began for those giving their condolences to Layton's wife, MP Olivia Chow, and family, as they also signed the condolences book.
Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife, Sharon, were the first non-family visitors met by Chow.
Then followed Michaelle Jean and her husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, then Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wife, Laureen, with Industry Minister Christian Paradis.
Laureen Harper had tears in her eyes as she moves down the line, as had some of the past and present NDP parliamentarians who had watched the casket marched in.
Thomas Mulcair stared at the casket as he waited to sign the book of condolence, his eyes red and struggling to keep his composure.
NDP co-deputy leader Libby Davies gave her counterpart Mulcair a hug before signing the book herself, her own eyes red.
Liberal leader Bob Rae and interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel were also there.
Chow, her habitual smile nowhere to be found, stood with her hands clasped together in front of her body. The only sounds were cameras clicking and Layton's granddaughter, Beatrice, cooing. Chow smiled faintly at the little girl.
"It's a historical moment," said Lynda Cuthill of Cambridge, Ont., who had been in Ottawa vacationing with her two children when they heard of Layton's death Monday.
Describing the late NDP leader, she said he was special "because he had an inner happiness that showed."
The doors to Centre Block were to be opened to the public until the evening after the political leaders paid their respects.
Layton was resting just metres away from the House of Commons, where he had only a few weeks to sit in the seat reserved for the leader of the official Opposition. His last appearance there was for the vote on Canada Post back-to-work legislation on June 25. That vote came after a record-breaking filibuster led by his party.
Longtime NDP supporter Carolyn Fornataro of Ottawa said this was the first time the death of a politician had affected her so deeply.
While she had turned out to pay her own respects, she said she couldn't help but worry about what would happen to the NDP without Layton at the helm.
"He brought our party so far," she said. "I'm concerned about the momentum of the party."
Philippe Trottier and his wife drove from Kingston, Ont., to see Layton on Wednesday, wearing their NDP-orange shirts.
"Jack showed us how to strive to have a better country," Trottier said. "He was a real honest politician."
After two days in Ottawa, Layton's body will be taken back to Toronto for a state funeral Saturday at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall.
Former NDP leader Ed Broadbent is the only confirmed pallbearer, so far.
The Department of Canadian Heritage has taken the lead in organizing state funerals, in accordance with the family's wishes.
The last state funeral was for former governor general Romeo LeBlanc in July 2009. LeBlanc was laid to rest in his hometown of Memramcook, N.B., 25 kilometres southeast of Moncton.
The first Canadian state funeral was held for Thomas D'Arcy McGee after he was assassinated in 1868. McGee was a cabinet minister in the first Parliament under Sir John A. Macdonald.


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All was looking grim for Andre Villas-Boas' Tottenham Hotspur side, after a 3-2 loss at Anfield, a heavy 4-1 drubbing in Italy at the hands of Inter Milan, then quickly back into Premier League action at White Hart Lane as again the wheels looked to have not only fallen off for Spurs, but they had rolled down the hill and away from the north London outfit, losing to Fulham 0-1.
Spurs went into their game with Swansea at the Liberty Stadium needing all three points to salvage their hopes of an illustrious Champions League spot.
Fans were right to be anxious as Swansea are no push over, and with fixtures against Everton, Chelsea and Manchester City looming.
An early goal from Jan Vertonghen settled any Spurs nerves after only seven minutes, with an assist coming from Gareth Bale. Jan Vertonghen went on to return the favour after 21 minutes, assisting Gareth Bale in making it 0-2 to Spurs.
Although Swansea had more of the possession during the game, and Michu was able to pull a goal back after 71 minutes. This led to a nervy end for Spurs, however they were able to dig deep for the victory.
This victory could prove vital for Spurs, who with Chelsea losing 2-1 at Southampton, moved up to third place in the English Premier League table.
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hamei wrote:That's a beautiful little piece.
And I wouldn't pay ten dollars for it. For actual use, it's shit.
I knew it!!!, heheh!!!
Thanks to god you said it, because one of my customers is selling these shit stuff here in my country to jewellers for medal engraving! So, I'm free of charges! I've not launched the stone!
hamei wrote:1) Made out of aluminum. Aluminum is one-third as stiff as cast iron. That means that for the exact same force, it will deflect three times as much as a part made of a more suitable material.
2) All bolted construction. Same problem. Bolted joints are nowhere near as rigid as weldments or castings.
3) The ways suck. It's very difficult to impossible to get the preload you want on round ways. If the female portion had seals and hydraulic oil pumped in under pressure they would be hydrodynamic ways, extremely stiff and very cool. But they aren't. If they are just a female bushing then you can't get the fit you need and can't ever adjust them for wear. If they use small balls for rolling elements then they concentrate all the loads on a very small area and wear very quickly plus have almost no damping effect.
4) The table : how the hell are you going to mount anything to that thing ? Every heard of t-slots, guys ?
5) The spindle : a three-jaw chuck ? Are those people nuts ? Any cutter except for a drill will have a sideways component of force. The very first thing they teach a person in shop class is to never I mean never put any kind of end mill or other cutter into a drill chuck. That means NEVER !
1) Sure! Anyway, better Aluminum and not MDF! Believe me, there are lots of commerical CNC routers here in Argentina being built over MDF frames!
2) Pretty sure too, yes... but you need to accept that in terms of assembly practicality the bolted construction is easier than weldments. To do it welded you need a good exoskeleton frame, already made with very tight tolerances, to help to hold the joins together in order to be sure that you'll not end with a useless structure once welded. Also, check out the very reduced workable area/volume. But I would go definitively for a casting structure, yes.
3) Do you really want to go all that far? Can be built some frame/structure with hydrodynamic ways for such a reduced workable volume? I mean... again, check out the travels! Look: "Travels: X-200mm * Y-150mm * Z-60mm" ...how would you manage to fit hydrodynamic ways into some desktop frame like this? Is it already possible at all with such a reduced target footprint? (It is not a retoric question, I'm honestly asking.)
4) Here I can not less than agree completely!
5) Ditto!, same as with the previous point (4), something like the Bosch GGS 27 L would be way better than that!
...and we should add...
6) The nuts and screws from the Sable machine are the same ones that you would use to assembly a very basic DIY machine, I mean, they seem to use common nuts and threaded rods from hardware-store! I mean, nothing with recirculating balls or at least some good Acme trapezoidal thread!
hamei wrote:We could continue but will refrain
Let's try with the next best thing for some extra dollars. What about something else from your country? Look:
Bodor CNC Router
hamei wrote:The point is, here's a very nice-looking device built with no consideration for its intended application. None whatsoever. I like hobbyists - I am a damn hobbyist ! but jeeze ... can we learn a little about the basics before we go making stuff ? Or writing web browsers ?
Give them a slap on the wrist!
hamei wrote:I don't see the price in this little guy
About U$D715.- at eBay U.S.A. for the whole thing, including everything, ready to hook up to your PC box... or if you prefer, you can buy the same thing in Argentina for U$D2599.- but that will buy you a parallel port cable and a cup of coffee too! Oh, well... ehrrr...
hamei wrote:but the sign machines are not nearly as pretty except they have the basics correct. I also have a hunch that the sign machines are a lot cheaper and they come with a working control right out of the box. It's in Chinese, of course, but still .... here's a (terrible) shot of a portion of a sign. Words are about 2 cm tall, workpiece was 14" by 22" (roughly 36 x 60 cm). Bigger letters in other areas, this just gives an idea of the accuracy of small cutters even with a small, cheap but properly designed machine.
You're right, the picture is terrible! ...but I understand the idea!
So, any chance to see a picture from the kind of routers that you make reference? I'm genuinely interested, even if I know that the chances to get them here to my country are pretty narrow, specially if one refuses to sell a kidney to pay to the customhouses... but I'm still interested.
hamei wrote:If CNC-Sable is the competition, maybe I should go into the biz of hobby NC machines ..... their stuff is crap. Beautiful crap to look at but still crap.
Never better said, and with your knowledge you should go... but I fear that with your (more polished and thorough) requirements, the overall cost would be from the very begin probably a lot higher than those U$D715.- from Sable... what do you think? Is it possible to put along something along the above mentioned lines for less than U$D999.- or something like that?
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I keep telling my friends at work that Tim Hardaway Jr. is developing rather nicely, and that he'll be NBA material, and they disagree and say he won't be as good as Manny Harris was, let alone Tim Hardaway Sr. At the start of the season (and very much so before the season) it was apparent that we didn't have a proven leader to step up as a scorer, and the onus was initially on Darius Morris to spark the offense, but Hardaway Jr. really has stepped it up as well and has been the saving grace in many of the games this year.
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@Cameron: Sadly, I have to agree with Chaos concerning monetary value, but that's now what's important. Let's see some pics of some of your faves!
@Chaos: Still waiting on pics from you. :-)
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I will post some when I can :)
@Cameron: We look forward to it. :-)
You never asked for pics
"If you really loved me you'd all kill yourselves right now" -Spider Jerusalem
@Chaos: Not for anything in particular, but I did ask you in general. I should have stated that this thread was more geared towards posting pictures of your collection gems.
"@Chaos is Beauty: Welcome back! :) Glad to hear your input. Do you have any photos you'd like to post? Great grab with paying cover price for Gotham by Gaslight. How'd you manage that one? "
So in anticipation of Angela's arrival in the Marvel universe I got Spawn #9 (her first appearance) Angela #1 (her first book) and Age of Ultron #10 (The Angela variant) Here is the photo. Will these be worth anything ever? Who knows, but it is fun to have them. For some reason I feel like I shouldn't take the AU variant out of the baggy. I am sure Chaos will set me straight on wether or not that makes sense.
That's cool, and yeah, I don't know for sure, but I'd say keeping the bag on it would increase the value (if there is value). Chaos probably does know though.
Soon I think I will have a comic with some value to it, Batman vol.3 (DotF) is coming out in october and ONLY the first prints have a unique cover: it's a wraparound cover of joker's face, But the special thing is what's under it... Joker's skinless face. But yeah, only on the first prints.
@FAMESREVENGE: Hmm. I'm not sure but I'd keep them bagged and boarded for sure. As far as value is concerned, I'm sure there'll be a spike around the time Angela reappears but there are a lot of factors to take into account for long term value. I'd focus on keeping her first appearance as I assume it's from the 90's and even books that young can yellow. Personally, I'd prefer to sell them as a set as I like that idea, but you may get more selling them separately.
@Cameron: I'm confused. Are you saying they're doing a first printing in October with that weird cover? Wouldn't they not be first printings or are they doing a separate printing?
They are first printed in October, with the special cover, but every printing after that has a regular cover.
@Cameron: Gotcha!
@ Fame, yeah the angela stuff is nice, I don't think it'll ever really be worth a ton of money though so keeping the bag on or not is a personal choice I'd say, but from a collector perspective keeping the bag on generally increases the value, who knows, someday it might be a neat little piece of history and you'll have one of only a few that are still sealed in the bag
@Queso, sorry about that, I'd post pics but it's kind of a headache getting pictures on my computer, I'll see what I can do
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Hamburg complete deal for Muller
Hamburg have signed Germany international Nicolai Muller after convincing Bundesliga rivals Mainz to sell.
- Hamburg loaned €17 million by fan
The 26-year-old has put pen to paper on a four-year contract with the northern Germany side, who are reported to have paid Mainz 4.5 million euros for his services.
Mainz had last week said they would not sell Muller unless they received a considerable offer for the player, and were able to find a replacement.
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- Hamburger SV (@HSV) August 6, 2014
"Nicolai is a player who improved constantly over recent years and is always able to reach an even higher level," said Hamburg's CEO Dietmar Beiersdorfer.
"That is in keeping with Hamburg and the aims we have to improve step by step.
"His versatility is going to be particularly helpful to our attack while his pace and strong shot will also help.
"Furthermore, Nicolai has always kept his feet on the ground, despite the success he has had."
One of those successes was earning his first caps for Germany before the World Cup, although he was not included in the squad which triumphed in Brazil.
He becomes Hamburg's fourth new signing this summer after Valon Behrami, Pierre-Michel Lasogga and Zoltan Stieber.
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