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BazCones: Cool addition to sweets scene
Will 2004 be remembered as the year of the frozen dessert?
We've already witnessed the openings of two new gelato cafés: Milano at the Main Street Market and Splendora's on the Downtown Mall. Now, good-ol' American ice-cream is making its move.
BazCones opened Saturday, October 23, just off the Downtown Mall in the pumpkin-colored building on Fifth Street that houses The Hip Joint dance/fitness-wear boutique as well as a Bikram Yoga center.
Personally, I can't imagine anything more appealing than a cool milkshake after 90 minutes of 110-degree yoga. Though Hershey's hard- and soft-serve ice cream creations star in the show, BazCones offers a lot more than sweets.
The breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu includes coffee and breakfast bagels, hot meatball and roast beef "Bazwiches," wraps, and hoagies served on Philly rolls. Winter additions will include hot waffles and apple pie (topped with ice-cream, of course).
All these options should keep Downtowners as well as looming construction workers happy. (Across the street and next to the venerable C&O, "The Holsinger," a five-story residential/commercial structure, will soon rise from a former City parking lot.)
BazCones is owned and operated by the Bazelak family of New Jersey (Bob, Wendy and their kids Michelle and Jeff). So what does Bob, whose sweet tooth got him into this business, think of his European gelato competitor? "Being from New Jersey," he says, "I'm more an ice-cream and frozen custard kind of guy." However, he does plan to add Coney-Island fave "Italian water ice" to the BazCones menu come spring.
BazCones is open every day, 7am-9pm, except Sunday.
Apples on a pedestal
Slow Food Virginia is following its September Artisan Cheese Festival with an even bigger celebration– this one devoted to America's favorite fruit: the apple.
"Apples from the Ark" is a two-day, October 29-30, extravaganza featuring everything from juicy tastings to exhibits and kid-friendly activities.
Friday evening's chichi celebration, honoring cultivator Tom Burford (aka "Professor Apple"), appeals to gourmet palates (and wallets, with tickets at $100-$150!) and involves a tasting of apple dishes prepared by local (i.e. Reed Anderson of Blue Light, Melissa Close of Palladio) and national chefs, sips of hard and sweet cider, and lecture by author Ben Watson dubbed "Sex and the Single Apple."
Saturday's mega Apple Tasting Festival animates the Rural Ridge Orchard in North Garden with dozens of edible and artistic exhibitors, tastings, and unique experiences like riding a six-car barrel train through the orchard as a storyteller recounts the tale of Johnny Appleseed. For directions to the orchard, see vintagevirginiaapples.com. Tickets, $10 (children under 12 free) are available at Harris Teeter's customer service desk, by calling 1-888-265-8298, or at the gate.
Now Serving: University Grille
Now that cool temperatures are here to stay, comfort food sounds more appetizing than ever, and comfort seekers in the Ivy Road area have a new source.
The University Grille, which bills itself as a "family restaurant," opened its Ivy Road doors in the old Hardee's space on Monday, October 18– and has barely closed them since. Since the spacious restaurant with its glass-enclosed main dining room serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it offers generous hours– 7am-11pm (Sundays 'til 10pm)– and an equally generous menu.
Though you'll find everything from hot subs to cold sandwiches and salads, co-owner (with Serafim Tavampis) Stavros Adamis says the Greek specialties– souvlaki, gyros, pastitsio (Greek lasagna), stuffed grape leaves– have a strong lead over Italian and American items.
Adamis says they've been pleased with their customers' diversity– students, seniors, workers, families, and guests from the nearby Cavalier Inn– and the customers are surely equally tickled with a new reason to pull off this busy city thoroughfare.
Brains behind BazCones: Michelle, Wendy, Jeff, and Bob Bazelak


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By Tendai Chara
Driving towards Kezi from Bulawayo can be a rare spectacle filled with pleasure. After only a few kilometres from the country's second biggest city, large herds of grazing livestock are usually seen munching grass as they seem unfazed by the noise emanating from the many vehicles from the busy highway.
Further down the road, the landscape becomes particularly spectacular with valleys that are surrounded by both huge and small granite outcrops. Balancing rocks hang precariously as if they might fall off any time.
It is in this vast conservation area that the Matopos National Park, a World Heritage site which is rich in both history and culture, is located.
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Location: Greenwich House, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0TX
Map: http://map.cam.ac.uk/Greenwich+Houseshow
- Greenwich House is located at the top of the Madingley Rise hill, behind the University Observatory Buildings and Library.
- Directions to Greenwich House for visitors can be downloaded here.
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- The Universal bus runs from Addenbrooke's, through the city, to the West Cambridge Sites.
- The cost is partly subsidised for Cambridge University cardholders upon presentation of your card to the driver. Please have cash ready.
- The nearest stop to Greenwich House is the first stop on J. J. Thomson Avenue.
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Alas, if this had been one of the previous 4 years we would be gearing up for the first tournament of the NE Jr. tourney series.
Darin has expressed a desire to get teachers together and see what we can do to revive this event and time will tell what the effort will yield.
I guess no one who spent time competing remembers the excitement, frustration, elation, exhaustion and more importantly the friendships that were forged through competition.
Disappointing that we can't provide this for our junior students today.


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By Todd Sperry
A Saudi man is jailed in Detroit following his arrest over the weekend by authorities who alleged he altered his passport and was not truthful about why he had a pressure cooker in his luggage.
According to a criminal complaint, Al Kwawahir Hussain reportedly could not explain to U.S. Customs officers at Detroit Metropolitan airport why pages were missing from his Saudi passport on Saturday.
He told them only his family had access to it and he kept it locked in a box, and that he was planning on visiting his nephew, according to the court filing.
During followup security screening, customs officers discovered a pressure cooker in his luggage.
Pressure cookers are not illegal but have been in the spotlight since authorities said they were used in the Boston Marathon bombings.
"Initially, he said that he brought the pressure cooker for his nephew because pressure cookers are not sold in America," the complaint said.
But Hussain allegedly changed his story and said his nephew had purchased one in the United States that "was cheap" and broke after its first use, officers reported.
Based on the conflicting stories and missing pages in his passport, Hussain was arrested and charged with altering a passport and making materially false statements.
A U.S. official familiar with the matter said the intelligence community is aware of the case and is tracking it, but has not seen anything to indicate anything suspicious.
Hussain was ordered at an initial court appearance on Monday to remain in custody temporarily.
CNN was unable to reach the public defender representing him.
He is due back in court on Tuesday.
CNN's Bill Mears contributed to this report.
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It should be illegal for anyone from the Middle East and/or Muslim to buy pressure cookers.
If this man wanted to utilize a pressure cooker to create mayhem, then he would had acquired one in this country; this is just the imagination of inept people.
maybe DR.INTERNATIONL QUACKERY.is up to no good agen maybe his trying to put are justus of track in the USA. in a time of war when we need it to be what it is the most in all was,.pnm,.
I think Pres 0bama should give a speech about Muslims clinging to their korans and their pressure cooker. That would be a fair and a balanced approach.
The next stamp on this terrorists passport should be GITMO
Hmm... It appears that you are the one who needs a few years in Gitmo.
Your comment makes no sense.
Let's just stand back and take a second look here, passport with pages ripped out, can anybody wonder why someone might want to rip out pages of their passport, besides hiding the history of their travels? Pressure cooker, can't by them in America. Everyone who lives in the US knows you can purchase them just about any old place. Then it was to replace his nephews, so where did his nephew purchase his? This almost seems more like a set up to distract authorities, while someone else entered the country at the same airport, without drawing any bodies attention. Deport the individual back from whence he came, without his passport and let the authorities of his home country know why he was sent home and let them deal with him. Pay for his jail time, pay for his meals, pay for his healthcare.
Just a thought
We, Americans; love DRAMA, watching too many soap operas......
Maybe ,maybe not; what happen in Boston was real.I find it hard to believe That the person from Saudi would think that pressure cookers are not sold in America after the Boston incident. That would be in every paper, website and their version of tabloids.
Heres a thought , the person was used and maybe just an indirect message .Pages missing from a passport?Its just a little to strange.Just an off the wall thought nothing more.More likely its nothing.
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, then he is a........terrorist duck.
There is a good joke there; unfortunately, timing and delivery are difficult to convey in writing. My attempt:
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, then he is a terrorist.........DUCK!!!
Something is fishy with this guy i got one at home its good for cooking
Not to worry, boys and girls, Eric Holder will get him off with 100 hours of Community Service. Plus a souvenir Homeland Security sweatshirt, a Student Visa and bus fare to Cambridge, BTW: The Atty General has warned us all not to be mean and nasty to Muslim Jihadist.
Tom, your scenario might well have worked if this was one of the Saudis who is so tight with the Bush family that they consider him family, and the Bush Regime was still in power. Then you KNOW this guy would be protected.
But we now have a president who actually goes after terrorists, instead of using wars as a justification to help out his buddies who invest in or run companies that reap amazing profits from the business of war.
Eric – and we know whom you voted for, we know what Eric Holder is good for, he is a liar, he should quit. He did lie to the people in America on the death of Brain Terry( Border Agent), now he is lies with the IRS going after conservatives, and he did lie on several occasion. Going into Iraq was the right thing to do, if you see the intelligence on the table, why blame Bush and Cheney for an intelligence failure. SImilarly when 30 navy seal died in Afganistan in 2011, it was an intelligence failure, Benghazi is another intelligence failure, Boston Bombing is another. So you need to see the bigger picture, after 11th of Sept 2001, there was no terrorist attack on US soil, now you saw it last month on the 15th. The economy is in shambles, 51 million on food stamp, 24 million out of work, and unemployment is at 7.5, buddy blaming the Bush and CHeney duo is not going to help, real work, real job is required.
Steve , you keep on watching Faux News, it will increase your stupidity
Un burrito!!!!!
Cooking jokes aside, it was probably a trial run to see if he could get a pressure cooker on a plane. Next time it may have something in it. Won't take as much fireworks as Boston to bring down a plane.
looks like many nephews have started asking pressure cookers from muslim countries.
Damn, I was just on my way to Walmart to buy one!
Cook up a little pork in that pressure cooker and shove it in the bullet holes he should get
Sounds like a "tempest in a teapot" to me. Give the guy his pressure cooker back and let him go on his way.
Sure, let him go. Nothing to worry about. Perhaps a dingo ate his passport pages.
Very well said, a sane voice amongst such illiterate and dumb comments
Yeah, I'd say send his little slimy hiney back to Saudi Arabia. And put him on the terrorist watch list too.
And keep an eye on that nephew too.
Make Me Laugh. Russians are coming. Cooker bomb. Cooker bomb.
that's it...no more pressure cookers for nephews living in the US. No more.
Saudi+ Pressure Cooker = TROUBLE
You should heed your own advice as stated in your username.
@Alex–your PC prism highlights your ignorance.
what Alex is trying to tell us, that folks from Saudi arabia are great, did he forget that 15 of the 19 terrorist on Sept 11th 2001, was from Saudi Arabia.
I see another law coming. Make all law abiding U. S. citizens register their pressure cookers after a full criminal background check has been completed. Of course, this law will not apply to illegal immigrants since they get a free pass to all services in the U.S., paid for by the U.S. tax payer.
I have a pressure cooker – they can put that in their files – makes no difference to me.
Right Said.. jail the innocent give free pass to non – deserving.
They can have my pressure cooker when they pry it from my cold dead turkey-grease-laden fingers.
His story is legitimate because he has no connections to terrorist groups and Saudi Arabians are well known for their exotic dishes, like steamed iguana lizard. A terrorist would never carry a pressure cooker on a plane if he was going to commit acts of terrorism because he doesn't want to alert airport security or the FBI. A terrorist would rather have someone purchase a pressure cooker for him in the U.S. to prevent anyone from knowing what his plans are. His nephew probably had a pressure cooker that broke its handle and he decided to buy his nephew a better quality German cooker sold in Europe.
You seem to know an awful lot about what a terrorist would and wouldn't do...just sayin
It's common sense, you wouldn't tell a police officer that you're driving to the bank to rob it because he will follow you there. A terrorist is not going to carry a pressure cooker on a plane to alert the police that he might use it in a bomb. He would rather buy it himself at Wal mart in the states.
This is the final straw Saudi Arabia! First you attacked us in Afganistan, then you blew up 9/11, then Boston, now THIS? A pressure cooker on a plane!?!?!? When will you wake up people? Ban all pressure cookers and Saudi Afganistaners or whatever thay are called!
and if he was a chink who said the pressure cooker is for making cream of sumyungai, this would not be in the news.
And if you weren't a racist, your comment wouldn't exist on this article.
he makes famunga cheese
This whole article is racist and offensive! Lets profile someone as a terrorist because that's where everyone is going with it, when this is something that happens every day. Just because the Boston bombers used pressure cookers for their bombs doesn't make anyone who travels with one a terrorist. And having pages out of his passport doesn't make anyone a criminal. I have witnessed this first hand by a border guard at the border in Detroit! Just like everyone jumped the gun and tried to lay blame on the Saudi for the Boston bombing who was later found innocent, people are making their own speculations on this persons guilt. Sad world.
While the choice of words and racial stereotype was a poor one, the underlying point is correct! If any other person from a country other than an arab was found with a cooker, there would be no news. The fact this has made news, is racist!
jklbus, you mean like all the bin Ladens and Saudis protected by the Bush Administration immediately after 9/11?
I guess when you do business with the bin Ladens and a bunch of Saudis, and some of them are close enough to be considered members of the Bush family, that trumps any investigation into their possible actions in regard to the worst terror attack in our nation's history. Yeah Bush!
Excellant Jeff, not only have you demonstrated WHY terrorists kill Americans like you, but you perfectly illustrate how in many cases foreign terrorism is justified, and a good thing.
When people like Jeff are killed by terrorists, it is a good thing.
Jeff is just an ignorant loud mouth racist – but advocating terrorism? Really? You are far worse than Jeff is.
I wonder why they just didn't fly him back to saudi like they did with the Saudi who was injured by the Boston bombs and flow out in secrecy by the Obama administration two days after the bombing.
jklbus, you mean like all the bin Ladens and Saudis protected by the Bush Administration immediately after 9/11?
I guess when you do business with the bin Ladens and a bunch of Saudis, and some of them are close enough to be considered members of the Bush family, that trumps any investigation into their possible actions in regard to the worst terror attack in our nation's history. Yeah Bush!
and if he was a cyber tough guy, he would make racist comments on news articles.
Jeff appears to have put a chink in his own argument.
Jack appears to not know that 2 people can have the same first name.
Jeff you are an imbecile. What do you do for a living? My guess is you are economically challenged (poor), never went to college or graduate school and your job sucks. That's why you feel the need to refer to asians in the way you did. The problem with people like you is you hate yourself and feel inadequate, therefore you have to bring others down. Blame everybody else for your shortcomings. Maybe some day you might actually achieve something but my guess is that you wont and you will continue to wallow in your own meager existence and contribute nothing to society. It's actually sad – get some help, buddy.
If what you say about Jeff is true, he is also a die-hard Tea Partier or Ron/Rand Paul fanatic.
Our government is is in bed with the Saudis, he will be deported without being prosecuted as are all saudi nationals. The most recent example being the first suspect in the Boston bombing
That's because he was no longer a suspect.
What exactly are they suppose to charge him with...it's one thing to not let him in the Country...but charge him for what!?
Hmmmm. Our government will get the "truth" out of him. He may have to be tortured first, but whatever it takes. (I'm betting that after a few "simulated drownings" he'll admit to being Lee Harvey Oswalds accomplice on the grassy knoll, or anything else they want him to admit to.)
sorry, not buying it.
This guy's pot could have been an active bomb & brought the plane down! How did such a huge hunk of metal make it through x-ray systems for checked bags?
You can have metal in checked luggage. It's only carry-on where they scan you with a metal detector.
Having a pot or pan, or pressure cooker isn't a problem. It's not a bomb – it's used to cook meat.
Also, it's not uncommon to have someone tear something out of your passport. You are required at every airport to surrender the passport to multiple people who ask for it – and those people can and do whatever they feel like.
So far, there is nothing in this story of concern, they are only holding him out of an abundance of caution.
At this point – the story amounts to nothing.
@Rocko. I have traveled all over the world and it most certainly is not common to have someone tear pages out of your passport. This dude was up to no good. Send him home.
He wanted to cook food for himself as airlines have stopped giving food (lol). And food in Saudi Airlines suck...so must have planned for it- lol
A well fed Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Pot Roast, shall not be infringed.
Its NOT the pressure cooker – its the explosive material a person puts in the pressure cooker that's the problem – all by itself a pressure cooker is just a big piece of metal.
Please quit saying we need stronger laws to prevent this horrible tragedy from recurring, and that he should be executed for his crime. All that happened was some Saudi stooge made a donkey of himself on a plane. I think our current laws can handle a man with an altered passport and a pressure cooker. What a bunch of little old ladies!!!
proof once again that you can't fix stupid. and I bet he wonders why they call him Hamburger.
yes and IF it would have been a bomb inside that chunk of steel that went off while your family was on that plane would you still have the same train of though I DOUBT IT
Have you even seen the list of items you can put in checked luggage? You can carry a gun and ammo in your checked luggage.
You can carry certain knives with you ON the planes again, as of a year or so ago. But NO box cutters. LOL. That makes tons of sense.
...couldn't he have just bought a pressure cooker over here if he really needed one?
The pressure cookers here are worthless!
He said pressure cookers weren't sold in the US? Couldn't he have come up with something just a little more believeable?
That definitely set off some alarms...
I have two pressure cookers, you know...just in case.
Remember folks. Regard all pressure cookers as loaded, store them locked away from children, separate them from potatoes, and never...NEVER...point a pressure cooker at anyone you do not intend to feed.
Rule One: if that little relief valve at the top is hissing, do NOT open the pressure cooker. You will first eat the lid and then bathe in the boiling contents. Google pressure cooker burns and look at the images.
This is like having to print "Do Not Eat" on those little packets that absorb moisture.
When you live in the middle of nowhere and don't have a target on your back or have never experienced terrorism, i guess your post would be funny, for the rest of us, you just seem like an @$$ hole.
So much for security checks at European airports Any explanation from them as to how his luggage passed security there? Was his passport checked in Amsterdam? Don't we have any reciprocity with international airports for flights flying into the US?
Could not agree with you more!!!
A pressure cooker isn't illegal or even unheard of in luggage, and his passport was probably fine when he got on. This guy is a moron. Like I said, it's not illegal to buy candy, rat poison, apples, and razor blades on Halloween, but try doing it . . .
That would be fun to do just to see the reaction. And if the authorities were called and questioned me, it would great to see their reaction when I refuse to answer their questions. I'll just be sure to have video rolling so I can record their physical abuse for the inevitable lawsuit against them.
Could it be that he could have torn out the pages after leaving the airport over there? Let's not jump to conclusions before all the evidence comes to light.
I am guessing that it was screened and they saw it was empty. I do not think an empty cooking pot would alarm them. Any way, we know nothing of the screening. Maybe they opened his luggage and checked it out.
Most of the terrorists are white conservative tea party members:
the wacko from Waco
the Olypmic bonber
the Ok City bomber
the Bunker Kidnapper
the Sikh killer
the Columbine killers
the Aurora killer
the Connecticut killer
All white. I think we need to start racial profiling and screening on white people.
Actually, they were all democrats. TRUE STORY Look it up...
I don't know that these guys have been associated with any poltical party. Your post will be interesting if it is true. Proof please.
We don't waste our time looking up anything a lying FoxTaard posts here.
I'll start with the easiest ones to disprove. Neither kid in the Columbine shooting was old enough to vote. The parent of one was an Air Force pilot, not usually known to be liberal. The guy at Virginia Tech was not a citizen and was ineligible to vote. The rest are just as easy to disprove unless your only source for information is a right wing shock jock.
The only people who believe all those criminals/terrorists were democrats are insane republicans who are too dumb to think or research for themselves. "But I done seen it on a list, yes I did! They's all wuz dumocrats, evr'y last one uv um, yeeeehaw boy howdy! now let's go collect us our welfare checks and go vote GOP!"
Yep. Terrorists come in all flavors. Anti-terrorism resources are needed at home and abroad.
Don't let facts get in the way of your slant Sly.
Most inventors are white too, your point?
Yep, most of those people belonged to a group that didn't exist until well after they were dead.
Intelligence knows no bounds, I see.
you are obviously a terrorist yourself
LOL...are Islamic terrorist white? Most of the people on your list were before the tea party was created. The other three are left wing loons. I bet you can't name a single tea party terrorist.
How about Michelle Bachman? She can strike terror into anyone with a brain.
Yes, I could also have listed many Arab terrorists, and likely some Asian terrorists.
My point is not that all terrorists are white conservatives, simply that terrorists come in all shapes, religions, races etc ...
Whenever it is an Arab terrorist, we hear all the racists come out of their holes ... so I thought I'd provide another way to look at terrorists.
Get real. Don't confuse random acts of criminality (often the result of mental illness) with violence to "advance" a political cause.
I I need the brand names of the smuggled pressure cooker and the ones his nephew bought in the US that were defective. Smuggling 1 pressure cooker. It really wasn't smuggling but in his luggage. Is it safe to go to Williams-Sonoma? I I don't know. Why not just send him home , keep the pressure cooker? So now he sits in an American jail and an international incident to further enrage the Muslim extremists. Why not just deny him entry to the US as his passport was not in order? Now it is an international story
"an international incident to further enrage the Muslim extremists." Let them rage. If I was a Muslim extremist, I'd pretend not to know this guy. I bet they hope he stays here.
"Why not just deny him entry to the US as his passport was not in order? " Attempting to enter this country with a bogus passport is a crime. I think we're gonna keep him for a while.
Muslim extremists are enraged by definition. Have you ever known a calm, rational Muslim extremist?
Even if this guy is innocent he should be in jail for stupidity...
...how the HELL do you bring in a pressure cooker on a plane in the US a month after the Boston bombings...
It is two days after Mother's Day. If he hadn't been an idiot, saying it was a Mother's Day gift would probably have worked just fine.
Good thing he was an idiot.
And not just an Arab, but a Saudi too! He is in troule. I bet the media is going to dig up some dirt about him, and make him a monster that he may not be.
They've already dug up some dirt. He was an assistant coach to Mike Rice. A word to those attempting to travel with basketballs, beware.
That's my point. He's STUPID. He needs a good nickname.
How about "Hamburger"?
Since we're debating on banning guns, let's ban pressure cookers to, as weapons of mass destruction! While we're at it, let's ban knives, shovels, bricks and finally ourselves from the face of the sorry planet.
You're silly and making silly points to prove your view
Yeah sure...
If I, a regular American college student, traveled to Saudi Arabia, pages missing from my passport, with a pressure cooker in my luggage, I would expect to be detained for a while in Saudi Arabia because I have common sense.
That would be a really stupid idea. Do a little thinking.
The difference is that guns were meant to KILL.
In this case, I think the guy intended to do some harm with it along the way somewhere, or maybe, just maybe, he thought no one would actually dare do anything but they would all go home worried. Gee, I hope he doesn't fall down the stairs while he's in police custody.
The planet is only sorry that we are here.
It was fine before we came along, asteroids not withstanding.
Further proof that our 'war on terror' is pretty one sided. Look, if someone wanted to commit a terrorist act in the US it would be very easy. How hard is it to kill hundreds of people? Really not very hard. Think about it, you get a couple of automatic weapons at a gun show, turn up at a crowded place and let loose. You poison a water supply. You blow up a school. These are not difficult things to do. If you have a couple of accomplices you do it in three cities at the same time and people will be terrorized.
Instead we get idiots blowing up their genitals or get caught trying to light their shoe bombs or fumblemouths who bring pressure cooker on airplanes and think you can just cut some pages out of your passport and no one will notice.
These are not 007 type villains who alter the flight paths of US satellites. These seem to be middle school drop outs who can't get a job.
For terrorists to even be effective you have to be scared of them. I for one am not scared. If others had this same point of view they would be far less effective.
Lack of fear does not save your life.
Automatic weapons are NOT sold at gun shows, or anywhere else for that matter. It is illegal in the US for a private citizen to own an automatic weapon and it is likewise illegal to sell them.
They're considered class III weapons, and they are legal. They're just very expensive to own.
My mistake – caught up in the moment. They are EXTREMELY hard to acquire and require a lot of paperwork and approvals. My point is that you cannot just walk in and buy one.
I suspect that this guy considered himself a deadly terrorist and intended to blow someone up with his pressure cooker; however, he is so incredibly stupid that he's have probably just blown up his kitchen instead.
I thnk he's just a misguided idiot who thought it would be neat to cause a ruckus and get some attention.
For sure, not the brightest bulb. He went to Detroit, he is really taking a chance!
What? Automatic weopons are damned hard to secure. I've been around firearms all my life (40 years and father was a gunsmith) and I have only seen one, it was a 9mm that jammed about every 8-10 rounds.
I was gonna – um – make some beans.
I don'T give a crap what others say, we here need to profile for terrorists as we could probably prevent 85% of terrorist acts here in the states, as they do in Israel. If you don't like it LEAVE ! ! !
It sure is easy to say that when your a white male behind a computer screen.
I was born here I live here, and I choose not to leave, If you want to live in a country not founded on principles of freedom and due process move to antartica, and create your own. Telling people to leave if you dont like it is vigilante justice at its finest. I dont recall an instance in history where people were even compensated for their property in those situations (one ends up having to abandon it).
why dont YOU go to Israel!! I'm tired of sending my tax dollars to that crappy Zi onist state while Americans are still in need.
The cry of another brainless nationalist. "if you don't like it, leave". There are just as many nutjob white Americans who commit heinous crimes, and terrorist acts, and guess what lady – that means YOU should get profiled too, or your husband/brother/cousin/father. How would you like that? I bet you'd think that was an invasion of your privacy or a civil rights violation. Now shut your trap before you say something else stupid.
"There are just as many nutjob white Americans who commit heinous crimes, and terrorist acts,"
Uh huh.
I don't have much use for the "love it or leave it" argument, but until you provide some solid statistics to back up that completely unsupported false equivalency, you'll pardon my skepticism. Besides, a quick trip to the FBI Uniform Crime reports for homicide will completely disprove at least part of your "heinous crimes" assertion. (Conflating terrorism with other crimes: ISWYDT. Lol.)
PS It's probably a bad idea to call someone else "stupid" right after you've said something provably false.
Don't conflate random criminal acts with terrorism. Get informed before mouthing off.
"we could probably prevent 85% of terrorist acts" We DO prevent more than 85% of them, honey, and if you don't like the freedom here. go somewhere else. I bet you and Rush leave before I do.
I don't understand the Saiudis. How can people with so much money tolerate being treated like garbage? I've heard them say plenty of times that they will not use oil as a weapon. They should ask themseves, if it was the other side holding the oil, would they make the same promise?
Actually it's the ruling family that 'owns' all the oil and has ll the money. Fully a quarter of its citizens live in poverty.
Most Saudi citizens are fundamentalists who dream of killing the royal family. The royal family is full of educated people who are pro-USA, and they need us to keep the fundamentalists down. It's a circus over there.
Oh come on, now! I'm sure he was traveling to spend time with his great Aunt Sarah and help out with her summer canning..
Canning or caning?
So lets see here... This guy woke up ready to go visit family members in the USA!!! He pulls out his passport and leaves it on the kitchen table for a few minutes while getting his luggage from his room. He remembers that he forgot to put the pressure cooker in his luggage that he bought as a gift for one of his family members. While the kid gets the pressure cooker, he notices a really cool book on the table... it looks like a notepad, but much more official and cooler than that!!! He decides to take a page or two because he may never see another one again. This guy finally makes it to the USA just to be stopped by immigration for a passport missing a few pages. (This usually invalidates a passport) After being run through the grinder about his passport, inspectors decide to do a precautionary search of this guy's luggage and finds the pressure cooker. This fella's day just couldn't have gotten any worse, due to the Boston bombing the month prior with a pressure cooker. It's either all that or this guy is a complete jag bag knowing exactly what he was doing, and just wanted to see how much he could get away with. I know we test our own securities like this a lot these days....who's to say planners of terror don't do the exact same thing??
Think another side could just be that he had two strikes against him before stepping off the airplane. 1. US immigration. 2. Detroit.
I think we should also find out from Google everyone who has searched for "pressure cooker" and look very closely at them, and if they've ever done anything that can't be fully explained, arrest them! We also need to stop focusing on people of Arab descent too – remember, terrorists are everywhere, all skin colors, all races, all ages, and both genders! Just because your grandmother is 86 and has a last name of "McAllistar" doesn't mean she's not an independent cell member of the Scottish Independence Army planning to blow something up! Be afraid! Be very, very afraid! All the time! Baaaaa! Baaaaa! Baaaaaaaa!!!!!
That's actually a stupid idea.
How about you try thinking Peter? He was arrested after flying to America and without any explosives so your postulate that he wanted to blow up the plane is moronic at best.
Send him back to Saudi Arabia.
How about in the pressure cooker
We should send you back to Europe.
I think this is a good catch. This Saudi can be on a trial run to see what can or cannot be taken on a flight. I am sure, the bad guys are finding ways to attack us. Pages missing in a passport is a RED flag, why are the pages missing, where did the passenger go and does not want to disclose.
This guy is way too stupid to be a threat, but he may have been wound up and turned loose by the smart ones to see how far he got. But a pressure cooker? Even the smart ones are stupid if that's how they roll. He might be "joking," like my friend back in the day who bought some apples and razor blades on Halloween, and freaked the clerk out so bad she called the police.
Good ole Janet Napolitano...
DHS extendeded the "trusted traveler" status to Saudi Arabian travelers. Maybe the DHS forgets what the rest of us remember: Fifteen Saudi travelers helped orchestrate and carry out the 9/11 attacks. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano didn't announce this new policy to the news and Americans. Instead, she whispered it into place in January after meeting with the Saudi head of national security. The plan is that the Saudis – who support ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi Islam at home and abroad – will have a direct role in putting Saudi citizens on the airline security fast track for entering America. The only reason that the public is learning about this favor to the Saudis is that the Investigative Project on Terrorism learned about the plan through concerned sources and then published that knowledge on March 20. The Saudis have joined a small handful of countries that are considered to be sufficiently trustworthy that their national security organizations can promise the DHS that vetted citizens do not pose a threat to the United States. The countries already on this short list are Canada, Mexico, South Korean, and the Netherlands.
KEY WORD....the NETHERLANDS (AMSTERDAM?????)... go figure.
"DHS extendeded the "trusted traveler" status to Saudi Arabian travelers." It doesn't mean ALL Saudis are automatically trusted, you low-info dittohead. It means Saudis are no longer barred from applying. I know it scares Glenn Beck, but everything scares him.
Meanwhile the real terrorist are getting away with stuff and making more plots bravo TSA.
why go through the trouble of proving his motives? send him back, with his pressure cooker.
Send him back and leave the pressure cooker. I have used pressure cookers all my life, they are used constantly for canning.
I want now to give my grankid a pressure cooker to make beans, and I am sort of worried that I may have to actually provide my name address and serial number. LOL
There will be a 2 week waiting period for all pressure cooker purchases.
Attempting to enter the USA with faked or altered papers is a serious thing. He's gonna be living here for a while. Letting him go is not gonna happen.
I failed to understand how USA can jail him... altered passport... it's not within USA jurisdiction to arrest non-US national for altering his passport. Not truthful about pressure cooker.... How do you prove that? So if govt says I am not telling the truth, I can be jailed?
Since you are clueless, you should get an education. For you, that would probably mean prison time. Just sayin
So you are siding with N Korean which arrest foreigners because it determines that foreigners are not telling the truth, and sentences them to hard labor?
You remain clueless. You know nothing of our laws. Prison would educate you. I did not say I sided with anyone, dipwad.
You are the clueless idiot. You sound like a paranoid, scared child. Just sayin...the truth.
No. You alter a passport it means something is wrong. You are then here potentially illegally. If you can't keep your story straight, something is up. And if so, GTFO of our country. Simple enough.
If you don't like the form of justice, don't go to the country administering it. Don't wear a bikini in Iran. Nor go hiking in N. Korea. Simple.
Nobody is in the US illegally just because pages are missing from their passport. If he ever did anything illegally in the US which could jeopardize his status as a traveller, that eould be in the system, not in his passport. Nothing on those passport pages could make him illegal to be hee.
Now, pages missing in a passport can mean that somebody wants to hide where they have been, but that does not make them an illegal presence in the US.
In Saudi Arabia his crime was worth beheading.
"it's not within USA jurisdiction to arrest non-US national for altering his passport." Entering this country with an altered passport is a crime, no matter who you are. We may let him go, or we may send him to prison.
pressure cooker "broke after its first use" !!!! was it a test run Muhammed?
Muslims are not allowed to enter the US in their underwears, with shoe on, and carrying pressure cookers with them. Period.
Yeah ha ha so funny you fools. Pressure cookers have never been used in a commision to commit crime...oh wait, they have. Bet the people in Boston only wish someone had been as vigilant...................................
During Civil Wars, pressure cookers are banned.
um forget the uncle -how bouts we look at the nephew?
There are lots of things that you can't take on a plane which are perfectly legal and do not require a background check to purchase.
Why are so many people on this board tying background checks to things you just plain can't fly with (like box cutters, fire extinguishers, cigar lighters, etc)?
I don't understand the connection.
NRA trolls are trying very hard to talk down any background checks, so they will say silly things to make it look like background checks are silly.
But they work in some cases and are not silly. They are law enforcement tools that can be used wisely or misused, just like any tool.
He was caught AFTER he flew. Not before. Obviously the plane didn't blow up.
Um...if he wanted to use a pressure cooker as a bomb, why would he not purchase one in pretty much any store with cash?
Yah thing that would work if you wanna blow up the plane?
Come on, think,
He was apprehended when he LANDED in Detroit. If he wanted to blow up the plane, he would've done it while he was still on board.
Come on, think.
You're asking way too much of most these people Kirk.
"Come on, think." It makes their heads hurt. They have FOX to do the thinking for them.
I would suspect that he brought the pressure cooker into the country in his luggage so that it would be untraceable if it were being used to make a bomb. If one is purchased here in the U.S., and pieces survived the explosion, they could be used as evidence.
He should have said he brought the pressure cooker because he heard that airplanes needed to be pressurized and he was just trying to help out. He still would have been lying but at least then he would have shown some vaudeville flair.
"It's the end of the world as we know it..." REM
Yeah, but we didn't really "know it" anyway – or, at least we didn't understand it. If we had, we would never have elected Bozobama or Nancy Peeelosi.
He just didn't want to get traced buying a one for a WMD when he got here.
Really, if they checked the cooker and found no threat, then all the news is doing is making a big stink on the passport issue while feeding into the brainwashed, media moulded, american fear mongering, policital retardation agenda. Curious if the son speaks up soon and if he ends up getting totally scrutinized by our incompetent FBI/CIA.
"it was cheap and broke after first use".
The pressure cooker he was taking to the USA was probably also Made in China, too.
I think we should have a Background Check on anyone buying pressure cookers and any other form of WMD like pans, kettle
not every guy with a pressure cooker gonna use it to kill ppl, in ksa we always use it for cooking, its so important for kabsa & other middle eastren food, a lot of saudies who go there miss it so they bring a pressure cooker with them .
arresting ppl with pressure cookers became a joke in middle easren newspapers.
It isn't a joke.
This guy DESERVES to sit in jail, even if his crime is just 'being incredibly stupid'.
1) He is a Saudi. The country that breeds terrorists like roaches. The country that brought us the 9/11 muslim-murderers.
2) He is carrying an appliance that was just used by other muslims to murder more American-infidels.
3) He had pages ripped from his passport. Pages that could have shown him traveling to Afghanistan/Yemen/Somalia. All muslim-terrorist home-bases.
If the cops did NOT arrest him....then they should all have lost their jobs.
I don't care about ethnic profiling. I want *MORE* ethnic profiling. I want arab/muslims to be put against a wall and frisked if that's what it takes.
Good job to the law-enforcement-officers. Don't let one of those murdering muslims slip by.
Pliny, none of the crap you just spewed is a crime under any US law. You are a racist bigot and we should profile against your ability to vote in our nation.
Good work!
I guess airport security does not scan for pressure cookers as yet.
LMAO.. The american WMD.. A pressure cooker.. Ya all should be in chains for being so ridicules.
Right. There is no evidence that they do any harm is there.... oh wait.
You know what else does harm? Coconuts,bricks, cars, frying pans, forks, goats, dogs, pancakes, etc. Are all those WMDs now too? WMDs in any realistic definition that has not been butchered by politically motivated idiots are atomic, biological, and chemical weapons, along with explosives of a certain power. Next thing you know some senator is hit in the head by a tomato and those are WMDs from that point forward.
Chris, you're beginning to sound like a hysterical pearl-clutcher.
Chris.... Seriously.. you need to put down your comic book and look at the real world. Pancakes have never blown innocent peoples legs off, or blown up and killed children. Your argument is absolutely worthless and wrong.
I wonder if everyone who has complained about detaining this man would be willing to get on a plane with him and take a chance that they would make it to their destination?!! America is the greatest country on Earth and we should all feed privileged to live here. We have more freedoms than any other country in the world. But, we also have laws created to keep us safe from harm. Are the laws perfect? No, but I would still rather live here than anywhere else.
Anyone who still thinks that America is the greatest country on Earth needs to take more prescription meds.
"Why is America the greatest country on Earth?" "It's not, but we used to be" – The Newsroom
By calling America the greatest country on Earth, you're implying you've been to every other country on the planet. Impossible.
I am not an American but I have liked living in America. I have been to other countries and lived there too. I can say by comparison it is still one of the great countries to live in, where you admit that things can be made better and people are accountable and the laws are the same for everyone.
Anyone who thinks America is the greatest country on Earth hasnt been to other great countries. We have fallen so far behind, catching up will be nearly impossible. However no progress will be made with the two (only two!) government parties obstructing each other, so it will be very impossible. I hate to say this, but America has fallen and cant get up.
That is exactly why we pump so much money into our military.
The biggest, strongest, meanest kid in class doesn't have to be the best at anything to get respect (begrudging respect or not), he can attain it through force.
America is the biggest, strongest, meanest kid in class. And it is about 50% retarded.
Clap on, clap off.
The tide comes in
The tide goes out
Have you seen Turkey?
Under my bird feeder pecking up all the spill over. They scare my cats. >(oo)<
Pressure cookers should be made illegal, banned, forbidden and destroyed from now to eternity. Period.
We have already stated that the US anti terrorism intelligence is lacking and faulty so let's complement with some irrational thinking, that will surely help. Pressure cookers are evil!!!
I really hope you are kidding....
Eric, you have me confused. He said his idea was irrational thinking, so are you advocating that we actually take his position to heart and outlaw pressure cookers? Or are you advocating that we raise a generation of superkids?
They don't need to ban pressure cookers, but you should have to register them on a federal database after a thorough background check.
You can't take box cutters or fire extinguishers on a plane, but you don't need a background check to buy them.
What does one have to do with the other?
Since a pressure cooker could explode the same way a fire-extinguisher could on a plane, they should be banned from flights above a certain elevation due to pressure differences at that elevation.
All pressurized containers should be stringently controlled for air travel no matter what they are used for.
Grandma's oxygen bottle is a bomb waiting to happen in the unpressurized baggage compartment at 40, 000 feet.
Pressure cookers do not need to have explosives inside them to explode. Try to keep up.
They are extremely dangerous to use in any kitchen by ignorant people who don't know the first thing about engineering or physics and who won't read the fffng manual and are too distracted to keep on eye. Safety first.
Pressure cookers should be declared weapons of mass destruction.
Everyone that owns one should line up at your local Fusion Center for registration, processing, and profiled according to race and religion.
TSA should increase size of knives allowed in carry-on baggage from the current 6cm limit to 12cm.
Finally, government should start mass producing tin-foil hats and duct tape. They should be produced in 3 patriotic colors, red, white and blue. CNN will spread the word. Blue is my favorite color, so I'll make sure to let them know at the Fusion Center!
Cut the drama.
There are lots of things that you simply can't fly with which are perfectly legal and do not require your silly proposal.
How do you get on an international flight without a valid passport? He ripped the pages out mid flight? Did he not think this would be discovered? I better rip out these pages where I went to Sudan, Somalia and Iran...or they won't let me in with my pressure cooker...
I was wondering this too. Ground crew at check in usually scrutinize your passport pretty closely before letting you even check in – it has to be valid and not damaged etc, because if you can't get in to the destination country, usually the airline who allowed u to travel is responsible for flying you back.
I find this one very hard to believe. Are people this dumb? Sure let's take a pressure cooker thru customs in a country that just had terrorist use a pressure cooker bomb. I think this was a drill.
you might be surprised, but people from Saudi Arabia and other countires regularly bring pressure cookers as gifts for their relatives in America. They definately have better pressure cookers there. This guy was most probably speaks poor english and was confused during questioning, and I bet you that this customs officer is trying to play a hero. Follow this story, other than him screwing with his passport... I gurantee you there is nothing else there.
Guarantee? You are obviously aware of much more than so many others. Pressure cooker or no, there is a reason why pages were removed, intentional or otherwise, from his passport. Hopefully Customs/Intel will be thorough in their review and findings.
I'm more interested in when he tore the pages out of his passport. Had to have been mid-flight because you shouldn't be able to get on a plane if security sees that.
There is a chance (albeit a remote one), that this guy did not hear about the Boston incident, and thus was not aware of any problem bringing a pressure cooker on a plane to the US. However, it surprises me that the airport where he boarded didn't say anything. I think the local embassy should start asking questions there first.
Hmmmm. Isn't Saudi Arabia the country that we give so much money to, having made them rich beyond measure, and they return the gift with terrorists?
What a country! Now I suppose they're going to arrest EVERY person that travels to it with a forged passport and a pressure cooker! 😉
Uh, yeah. As well they should arrest anyone with an unauthorized altered passport traveling with an assault pot.
JimTheo loves jokes.
Why do we even let anyone with a last name like this buy a ticket? Send all these foreign nationals a packn. They don't belong in this country.
you are a foreign national as well you POS, regardless how many generation your immigrant ancestors have been occupying the native american's land
Even the American Indians were immigrants at some point :).
Hmm. You guys are all latecomers to this part of the biosphere. Amoebas were here even before dinosaurs or monkeys.
Lemme see your passport. Oh, wait, I don't have eyes. nevermind.
All you biological creatures need to get the hell off of me. You're like a bad rash and no ointment in sight.
All you bits of matter, dark or not, need to get the F out. I was here before all your shttt appeared. GTFO
When you grow up, ask a teacher to explain it to you. "Why do we let people with funny last names buy a ticket" OMFG. What an empty-headed thing to say. I bet you are allowed to vote, too, and probably voted for Mitt Romney. What a funny name. Mittromnie. Mitromny. Sounds like a deadly disease. Better deport him.
I've never understood all of the Anti-American garbage that is puked all over online comment boards/forums, especially when it comes from other Americans. Whether or not any of you agree with its policies The United States is one of the greatest countries in the world for a few poinant reasons. 1. "Americans" are not some previledged people that were born in the US and are given a free ride. They work every bit as hard as the people of any other country. 2. Americans are the world. The American population are of every race, every color, every religion etc in the world living and working together. Yes there are those that are racist, or religious zealots, but those kind are everywhere in the world. 3. The US are humanitarian in nature, they give more support and funding than any other country in times of calm and crisis. 4. The US is a very stable country, they have due process of law, they dont torture, maim or otherwise bring harm to their civillians, in fact they are very protective to their people. 5, The Americans are not pushovers, in addition to protecting their people, they will protect their interests, such as military action to stop or destroy those who try to harm the American way of life. (All countries do this, not just the Americans). 4, Freedom. What more can be said. They can say what they want, do what they want (within the American Laws), worship as they want and never fear persicution.
Ok im done for now. I'll leave it to the American traitors, mis-informed people from around the globe and the rest of the trolls. And keep in mind, name calling and swearing are just signs of low intelligence. ;o)
I totally agree!!! Even though i wasn't born in the USA...
I see you have been drinking the spiked koolaide, "Voice of the World".
Your propaganda is nothing but already-debunked, extremist American Exceptionalism.
As to your laundry list of distorted ravings:
1. "Americans" on average are underprivileged / oppressed, povertry-stricken, and just the same as anyone else. Working is something people with jobs do, and there is nothing special about that, either. In fact, American greed is responsible for destroying much of the world's economy.
2. We are not the world. YOU are NOT the "voice" of anyone but yourself. We do not have people from all around the world running the show in this country. Gathering poor people from around the world isn't doing us much good.
Just having different people doesn't make us great or better in any way. We could be any country in Europe.
We are not working together. Powerful criminals are spending billions to destroy our country from within.
By destroying every bit of progress we've made since the Civil War, we are quickly devolving into a country of ignorant fools easily manipulated, exploited, and enslaved.
3. The U.S.A. is NOT humanitarian in nature. There are no laws to force people to be humanitarian here. Go read up on the law. Greed is the dominant factor here because powerful people worship money and are clearly willing to destroy everything and anyone, committing every heinous crime ever seen, just to make sure no one will ever hold them accountable. We don't give more than other countries. We destroy more than we give, not as a country, but as a haven for the worst criminals. Our policies protect the worst the planet has to offer. Suck on that.
4. The US is extremely unstable and is being destroyed from within at this very moment. Our rule of law has been gutted. Our government thugs torture, maim, and otherwise bring harm to our citizens. Our country is a police state run by thugs and robber barons for their own sadistic pleasures. Human slavery happens here. Children are easily kidnapped and tortured to death here. This is not a good place to raise a child. Every government service has been gutted and turned into a wasteland of criminal wrongdoing run wild.
We don't protect our citizens. We DO take vengeance when we can on those who have harmed our citizens. Not the same thing, kiddo. Anyone is free to come here and kill or kidnap anyone, torture them to death or smuggle them to a foreign torture chamber, and we won't do anything about it because the rich thugs running the show have their own little crimes to hide. This is a country run by criminals. There is no accountability here.
5. We are considered the world's last super-power. Other than that, our military is used mostly to enrich the wealthy criminals running the show, to protect their interests and no one else's, and is only used to protect the interests of the citizens when there is no other way to avoid it.
6. Freedom. We don't have it here. You come here at your own risk and in peril of your life and the lives of your children.
We are not exceptional. We are a fascist police state. That is not a unique thing in this world.
Sure, we can complain freely, but we are not allowed much else. We can worship however we want or play with our organs or do criminal things as long as we don't get caught by more powerful criminals.
Okay, I'm done refuting your air-headed post.
Voice of the World is clearly a Tea-Party type, and A guy with a rant is clearly an Occupy movement type. And folks. Reality and truth, is somewhere between these examples of the franking fringe.
Lol I got a good chuckle out of your rant there old fella. Did you forget to take your medication today? I never claimed Americans are any better than anyone else. Just that theres no reason for so much hatred for American any more than all the rest of the world. Just a word of advice to you. There are no black helicopters with "whisper mode", there are no men in black, everything that happens in the world is not some kind of conspiracy theory. It's obvious you watch too many spy movies..
The truth is whatever it is, no matter what anyone thinks or says it is. Facts are facts. BS is BS.
Until crimes are stopped, victims will always exist. Victims have the freedom to hate back, to fight back.
Mental illness is everywhere. Damage is being done by criminals. Where will it stop?
WOW "Guy with a rant". That was the crazy rantings of a mad man. You literally did what "voice" said. You opened a new message and puked all over the page and hit send. People like you are the ones everyone else have to watch out for. Don't go blowing anything up nutcase.
I agree completely. America is a fascist police state.
"We are not exceptional. We are a fascist police state." And this is why the IRS is auditing you creeps. You just aren't real Americans anymore. All it takes is five minutes of Rush or Beck and you are ready to turn commie on us.
Guy with a rant, very well said. I don't agree with 100% of it, but you made some excellent points.
Yeah, we're free to complain, just as long as you get the proper permits and do it in the designated area. Try exercising your "freedoms" without getting permission from the authorities and see how soon you get shut down.
For all of you poor subjugated American Citizens. Move to Afghanistan, or anywhere in the middle east for a little while and you will have your eyes opened.
"Try exercising your "freedoms" without getting permission from the authorities and see how soon you get shut down." You don't agree with the Homeland Security Act? Liberal traitor. Why, that's just to keep us safe from progressives. Safe groups like the Tea Party can protest freely.
lol, you didn't have to wait long till it started, but I agree with you 100%.
Apparently you can't tell the difference between "innocent until proven guilty" as it applies to law and as it applies to the opinion of someone commenting on a website.
Apparently you don't realize that the law is based on American principles. How are they principles if they only apply on paper and not in the hearts and minds of Americans. American values are being eroded by the very people who shout them out the most. Do not claim what's not yours. If your opinions are not influenced by these principles then do not claim them as your principles.
it is good to know pressure cookers are not allowed to bring in US. People bring it here because they might be used to certain types that not available in US.
A pressure cooker, really? Is he really that moronic or was he just the "distraction/bait" and the real threat easily walked on in?
although it is not likely these wackos would you the same device again, but better safe than sorry; lock him up and throw away the keys. nuff of these passport altering jihadists, and btw, I suspect, the missing passport pages were being used to clean his ass.
Duck and cover! We found a pressure cooker in his checked bag!!!
Who travels with a pressure cooker??
Amazon will ship it to you free...
Please. Saudi men never EVER cook for themselves.
Great comment.
well, at least the system worked THIS time. Remember the Islamo-nutjob who tried to explode his shorts on a flight to Detroit a few years ago – he had been flagged as an extremist (by his very own father) and still managed to almost get here.
The system "worked"? There is zero evidence there were any explosives at all. So the guy travels with kitchen appliances and the dog ate his passport pages – so what?!
So what? How soon you forget about the 9-11 hijackers, most of whom were Saudi.
Even if this guy had totally no intentions of doing any harm, he did have some perks (pages missing in passport) that triggered a security alert. Therefore, the system did work this time. Nobody knows if he did or did not want to do harm, so to be safe, he needs to be checked.
I'm glad your not in charge of protecting this country. Since its no big deal, I have an idea for you to make a lot of money. Go over to the middle east and set up a Pressure cooker stand. Maybe you will be rich and you can live like a Saudi man. Never have to cook for yourself.
So saudis never eat unless a woman is there to cook it? Yeah, right.
"The dog" could not have eaten his passport pages. He wouldn't have been able to board in Saudi with a tampered passport. This means he obviously tore them out during the flight, a huge red flag.
I bet nobody in charge was smart enough to check the airplane toilet? Now its probably too late. Live and lern.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? It'd be a safe bet to assume English isn't his first language. It's also possible that he meant that in the US that particular type/brand of cooker isn't available. So him later referring to a cooker that his nephew had does not affect his first statement. Why would a terrorist transport a cooker into an airport with all the attention they're getting. He can just go to a store and buy it in cash and no one will know his name. If it turns out he did have violent motives, execute him. If we value law and the rights we support then we can't jump to conclusions, no matter how many times it turns out to be right. Innocent until proven guilty applies each time.
Did you read the article? He was being held for an altered passport and not being truthful. The article does not mention any charges related to the pressure cooker. But thanks for the civics lesson.
Did you read my comment? When did I refer to charges against him? I'm referring to comments on this board. My comment was about him "not being truthful". Read again with a clearer head and maybe you'll get it.
Other than top-quality dates and camel's milk, there is very little you can buy in Saudi that you can't buy in the US. High quality consumer durables, including kitchen appliances (remember, women do all the cooking here, but men shop for the hardware – cheap is a priority because they don't have to use the junk they buy), are less expensive for better quality and selection in the US than in the Gulf. Lots of well-to-do folks here travel abroad for shopping, particularly to Europe or the US.
'If we value law and the rights we support then we can't jump to conclusions, no matter how many times it turns out to be right.'If it turns out he did have violent motives, execute him.' LAST TIME I CHECKED HAVING A VIOLENT MOTIVE WAS NOT CAUSE FOR EXECUTION. Think about the laws you value there for a minute!
I support the law being changed to execute those who plan or attempt mass killings. That does not affect the principles of rights and freedoms.
"I support the law being changed to execute those who plan or attempt mass killings." I could easily construct a case against you for either of those things based on a book you read or a google search you made. How about let's let the grownups do the lawmaking, and you just watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show, ok?
You ever stop to think that maybe this was a dry run to see how far he could get through the airport system with a pressure cooker? He boarded in Amsterdam and made it into the US without raising an eyebrow.
All possiblities are there, that's why they will investigate.
"Why would a terrorist transport a cooker into an airport " He ain't smart. This guy is no Doctor Evil.
In addition to pressure cookers, we should ban high-capacity crock pots and add a ten day waiting period for juicers.
Gotta admit Elwood – that made me chuckle.
Anyone with a bread machine in their luggage must be sent to Gitmo.
Just send him back without wasting any more court time and money.
Should have let him on the plane then pushed him out!
if you do that, there will be issues of the cabin having to de-pressurize. a better solution would be to duct tape him to the landing gear and see how long the tape will hold
whatever way you pick, make sure it is done before they hit the US soil, we don't want another burial headache.
There would be no headache–until the person hit ground, however.
Not in America. This isn't the country that throws you out of a plane if you cause trouble. That's Argentina. You should move there soon.


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Explainer: Quest for Mideast peace: An overview
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is pressing ahead with a bid to seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, despite a threatened U.S. veto. U.S. President Barack Obama says the path to peace in the Middle East is through resumption of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The last round of such talks broke down in 2010 with the two sides far apart on key issues. Click on the links on the left to find out more.
Sources: Reuters, The Associated Press, PBS, BBC, Council on Foreign Relations
Israel claims the entire city as its own undivided capital. Palestinians want East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and its sites sacred to Muslims, Jews and Christians, to be the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state in principle, but says Jerusalem would remain Israel's "indivisible and eternal" capital. Israel's claim to the eastern part of Jerusalem is not recognized internationally.
West Bank
One of the disputed Israeli-occupied territories with areas of limited Palestinian self-government. The scores of Jewish settlements that dot the West Bank have long been a sore point in Mideast peacemaking. Israel began settling the territory soon after capturing it along with Gaza and East Jerusalem in the 1967 war.
The Palestinians say the settlements, now home to roughly 500,000 Israelis interspersed among 2.6 million Palestinians, are gobbling up land they claim for a future state. The international community considers them illegal, and President Barack Obama has been an outspoken critic.
The West Bank encompasses important cities such as East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. It would make up the bulk of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, with precise borders to be drawn at the peace table. Expansion of Jewish housing makes those borders ever more complicated.
A 10-month slowdown in West Bank housing construction by Israel expired in late September, and the Israeli government did not extend it despite international pleas to do so. That contributed to a breakdown in the last round of peace talks between the two sides.
Gaza Strip
This 25-mile-long by 7-mile-wide strip of land lying on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea is home to about 1.6 million Palestinians and is under firm control by the militant Hamas movement. Hamas is opposed not only to the peace talks but also to Israel's very existence.
Gaza, which is also supposed to be part of a negotiated Palestinian state, has been the staging point for rocket attacks on Israel, which has responded with a economically crippling naval blockade of the territory.
Most of Gaza's residents are from refugee families that fled or were expelled from the land that became Israel in 1948. Of these, most live in impoverished refugee camps to which the United Nations delivers basic services such as health and education.
Israel began curtailing trade and travel in Gaza after Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006. Israel and many Western nations consider Hamas a terrorist organization. Hamas seized control of Gaza the following year, expelling members of the rival Fatah movement.
Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers say they will never give Israel what it most wants from a Middle East deal, which is recognition of the Jewish state and a legitimate place in the region. They see their Fatah rivals in the West Bank, who have been open to negotiating with Israel, as appeasers and traitors to the Palestinian cause.
Golan Heights
A fortified and strategically important hilly area on the border of Syria, Israel, Lebanon and Jordan. The Golan Heights were part of Syria until 1967, when they were captured by Israel during the Six-Day War. Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981.
Syria has said it wants to secure the return of the Golan Heights as part of any peace deal. A deal with Syria would also involve the dismantling of Jewish settlements in the territory.
Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab state to sign a peace deal with Israel. Despite Arab world pressure, Cairo has adhered at least to the formal requirements of its peace treaty.
Egypt, under Hosni Mubarak, had played the role of mediator at several very critical junctures in the peace process with the Palestinians and was a key U.S. ally in the tumultuous region. The U.S. underwrites much of Egypt's foreign aid.
But more recently, Israel's relations with Egypt have deteriorated since Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising in February 2011. In September, an Egyptian mob stormed the Israeli Embassy in Cairo and forced Israeli diplomats to be evacuated.
Damascus is one of Israel's harshest opponents, and supports a number of armed groups that carry out attacks against Israel. Israel has condemned Syria for its support for the Hamas Islamic government in Gaza.
Tensions between Syria and Israel rose in 2010 after Israeli President Shimon Perez accused Syria of supplying Scud missiles to the Lebanon-based Shiite movement Hezbollah, which the U.S. classifies as a foreign terrorist organization. Israel has warned that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself.
Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups based in Syria have rejected any move by the Palestinian Authority to resume direct peace talks with Israel.
Syria has accused Israel of posing a threat to the world with its "huge military nuclear arsenal."
Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has found itself under international pressure recently, condemned by leaders around the world for a bloody crackdown on anti-government demonstrators that began in mid-March 2011.
Jordan is considered a very important country in resolving the Mideast conflict due to its proximity to Israel and the occupied territories and its large population of Palestinian refugees.
Jordan, along with Egypt, are the only Arab states to have signed peace treaties with Israel. Jordan is also a strategic ally to the United States in the Middle East.
Amman has long maintained close security cooperation with Israel but has criticized Israeli treatment of Palestinians and fears a spillover of violence if Israel does not make peace with the Palestinians.
Jordan's King Abdullah was quoted as saying in September 2011 that Jordan and the Palestinians were now in a stronger position than Israel, telling a group of academics that the Arab uprisings had weakened Israel's position.
Lebanon, a small Middle East sovereign state, has long been the staging ground of proxy wars in the region. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south.
Dozens of private armies grew out of Lebanon's 15-year civil war that ended in 1990 and still flourish 20 years later.
A period of relative stability was shattered in 2006 when an all-out 34-day war between Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political group with a militant wing the U.S. classifies as a terrorist organization, and Israel caused significant civilian deaths and heavy damage to Lebanon's civil infrastructure.
Hezbollah is a central player in Lebanon. Hezbollah sets its own military strategy and it makes decisions that could lead to war without the involvement of the Lebanese state.
The power balance worries the U.S. and Israel, Hezbollah's sworn enemy.
U.N. peacekeepers have been charged with monitoring Lebanon's southern border with Israel since 1978. The force was boosted to almost 12,000 troops after Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought in 2006.
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Apple MacBook Pros With Retina Display Get Faster, Cheaper
If the $2,200 price tag on Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina made your jaw drop back in June, you weren't the only one.
Fortunately, Retina displays are getting slightly more accessible: Apple said today that it was lowering the price and boosting the processors on its 13-inch and 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro notebooks.
The 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro, unfortunately, isn't getting a price cut. Instead, it has two upgraded processor options, 2.4 gigahertz and 2.7 gigahertz, with the top-end version boasting 16 gigabytes of memory — which previously cost buyers an additional $200.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina now starts at $1499 for 128GB of flash, and $1699 for an upgraded 2.6ghz processor and 256GB of flash.
The Cupertino-based company also lowered the price on the 13-inch, 256GB flash drive MacBook Air to $1399 from $1499. The (non-Retina) Air has a 1.8ghz dual-core processor and 4GB of memory.
It's not unusual for Apple to lower prices on its products mid-cycle. Earlier this week at the Goldman Sachs conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook reiterated the company's strategy of looking at different ways to lower price points, and also said that the company "sweats every detail" when it comes to displays.


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The Recticel Eurothane PL insulated Plasterboard is a rigid thermal insulation system available in a closed cell comprising of CFC and HCFC-free zero ozone layer depletion potential. It comes with Polyisocyanurate (PIR) core faced on each of the sides of the board with bright, multi-layered complex of kraft, gas tight and multi-layered complex. It comes with a very low thermal conductivity of 0.22W/m. The manufacturing of the boards is done to BS EN 13165 by Recticel insulation.
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DLNA Media Server Virtual Appliance
A DLNA Media Server is a device that stores media content that can be accessed by media players and rederers found in the same local network. It is developed using the Universal Plug and Play protocol which permits devices to see each other in a local network and enables different data sharing services between them.
The goal of the project was creating a minimal solution to meet theese requirements. This was achieved using the tools provided by the yocto project through the creation of the meta-dlna layer.
Poky is a platform-independant layer that provides useful features and functionalities for embedded solutions. A Quick Start Guide and further information can be found on the main page of the Poky Project.
The functionality of the Media Server was implemented as a new layer, the meta-dlna layer, which can easily be integrated over any poky distribution. Stability and reliability was achieved by using the denzil branch of the yocto project.
Media Server is built as a virtual appliance, destined to be run under a QEMU KVM Virtual Machine Manager.
The linux core of Media Server makes use of the following virtualization acceleration technologies built in the host and guest kernel:
Arhitecture design
A basic requirement for the application is giving a minimal solution that meets all the tehnical specifications. That is why the Media Server application was designed to be a headless image. This means that after the system boots a console will automatically pop up.
The operating system image has no WiFi configuration. However, if possible, wired network connections are automatically set up by the init script of the os.
Package dependencies
The solution was build around rygel, an application used for media content sharing on a home network. Rygel can act both as a Media Renderer, e.g. an application that plays media content received from the local network and as an Universal Plug and Play Media Server, e.g. and application that makes the media available throughout the network. The project implemented the second solution, that of a UPnP Media Server.
Tracker plugin for Rygel
Tracker reprezents a data storage for devices that keeps semantic metadata about files and folders and enables data sharing throughout a local network.
MediaExport plugin for Rygel
The MediaExport plugin exports files and folders over the network. This solution was preferred to Tracker because it represents a more lightweight alternative and meets to all project requirements.
How to integrate DLNA and KVM into a poky distribution
The tutorial assumes that a poky distribution already exists on the local machine. If this is not the case, follow the steps described in the poky manual.
The meta-dlna layer was created using the combo-layer tool. To enable it, follow the next steps:
- Copy the meta-dlna folder into the root directory of a poky distribution. Cd into the poky folder.
- Add the layer to build/conf/bblayers.conf:
[...] BBLAYERS=" $POKY_HOME/meta-dlna/meta-guacamayo \ $POKY_HOME/meta-kvm \ [...]
- Add some extra features to build/local.conf:
[...] DISTRO_FEATURES = "ext2 largefile usbhost xattr nfs zeroconf pci ${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC} x11" [...]
- source the oe-init-env script
- build the image using the guacamayo-image-mediaserver target
bitbake guacamayo-image-mediaserver
For testing purposes, demo content can be added by inserting the following line into build/conf/local.conf:
[...] IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " guacamayo-demos" [...]
The demo media will be automatically added into the /usr/share/demos. You can now start a media player on a renderer device and be able to navigate trough the demo content from the Media Server.
At boot the system configures /home/rygel/ as the default home for rygel. Any additional media files that is added in this folder will automatically be shared throughout the local network. If demo content is added, the /usr/share/demos will also be appended in the rygel configuration file as one of the media sources.
How to run MediaServer using QEMU KVM
In order to run Media Server under a VM manager with full virtualization acceleration technologies follow this guide.
Please note that Media Server is already configured for KVM, paravirtualization and virtio, so Yocto Linux guest OS will not need further configuration (Guest OS preparation section is already integrated).
Network configurations
The DLNA server will only appear in the local LAN. Because of this, testing the dlna image using the qemu tool requires the VM to be in the same network as the host (bridged network configuration). The standard runqemu script creates a NAT configuration. To create the necessary configuration you first have to run the qemu-bridge script with the start parameter (The script needs the bridge-utils and the uml-utilities packages to be installed on the host system). After this you simply run the qemu command with the following parameters:
sudo /home/ema/ssd/work/poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/qemu-system-i386 -kernel \ ${path_to_build_folder}/poky/tmp/deploy/images/bzImage-qemux86.bin -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -hda \ ${path_to_build_folder}/tmp/deploy/images/core-image-mediaserver-qemux86.ext3 -show-cursor -usb -usbdevice wacom-tablet \ -vga vmware -no-reboot -m 128 --append "vga=0 root=/dev/hda rw mem=128M opr[Bofile.timer=1 "
The command supposes that you build the image for a x86 architecture.
The qemu-bridge script can be found here - File:Qemu-bridge-configuration.txt. After downloading the qemu-bridge script, make sure you have changed its extension to .sh and added execution rights (chmod a+x qemu-bridge.sh).
After you finished all the testing you can run ./qemu-bridge.sh stop to revert the configuration to your initial one.


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Guest Commentary: National Philanthropy Week, Nov. 12-18: Celebrating Fairfield County's generosity
Fairfield County residents are well known for their generosity and compassion for neighbors in need. Nothing demonstrates this better than the recent outpouring of support and the coming together of communities to help those in our towns, county, state and region hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. As we celebrate National Philanthropy Week, it is gratifying to know that we continue to be among the most generous Americans.
Fairfield County ranks 10th out of the 3,115 counties in total giving in the United States. In 2008 — the most recent date comprehensive data is available from the IRS — Fairfield County residents gave a total of $1.3 billion. The average household gave $2,497, or 3.6% of their annual income. Our local corporations and hundreds of foundations and institutions also provided millions in support to organizations and residents in Fairfield County as well as across the country and the globe.
Here at the Fairfield County Community Foundation, this week and every week, I am reminded just how fortunate we are to live in a county where so many care so much about their neighbors. Last year, the foundation and our donors provided more than $16.6 million in grants and scholarships to nonprofits and students in Fairfield County and beyond. Since our founding, we have provided more than $151 million.
But effective philanthropy goes far beyond simple charitable donations, and the challenges we face as a community require us to do more.
Fairfield County is among the richest in the country, yet we have greater and more significant disparity in economic and social indicators than 95% of communities across America. We have some of the greatest schools, yet there is an ever-widening achievement gap between our urban and suburban students. We offer our residents great opportunities, yet many live in poverty, lack health care coverage and struggle each month to find affordable housing and child care.
We have done well by our neighbors, yet we can do better.
If Fairfield County is to achieve its full potential, we must all work together to tackle these complex and systemic challenges. We must collaborate to ensure that all of our schools provide students the same chance to succeed, that every family has a safe and affordable roof over their head, that our parents and grandparents can age safely and comfortably in the community they call home and that the skills of our workers match the jobs of tomorrow.
There is a role for everyone to play. Our government leaders must work together to address regional challenges that go beyond town borders. Our businesses must commit to the well-being of their employees and the communities in which they prosper. Our nonprofits and service agencies must strive to do more with the resources they have and focus on making a meaningful, measurable impact in residents' lives. And, yes, our residents must be willing to continue to give generously.
Together, we are working to address these challenges through partnerships in education, housing, health care, job training and more. We are making a difference.
I invite you to join us as we embrace the full meaning of philanthropy, this week and every week to follow.
Come to the table, there's a place for you.
Juanita T. James is president and CEO of Fairfield County Community Foundation in Norwalk.


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