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After the Transformer Wars ended, peace was felt throughout the world of Cybertron. Autobots and Decepticons joined together in friendly handshakes, they journeyed near and far through the expanse of space on exploratory ventures, and ate cake and ice cream together in a civil manner. Even Optimus Prime and Megatron became buddies.
— Then The Unexpected Happened —
Megatron could not handle the peaceful feelings between the Autobots and Decepticons and somehow ousted Optimus Prime from his command of the Generation One Clan. Megatron now has control over the minds of all the G1 bots and is using them as his personal guards in the Generation One Clan's Stronghold while he concocts an evil plan to take over the whole Conquer Club.
Help Optimus get his comrades back and regain control of his clan's stronghold. Fight and win your way though the many levels of the stronghold to find and defeat Megatron, for until he is beaten and you are crowned champion Optimus Prime will never be able to command control of Generation One again!
Megatron invites all who are brave enough to try to get past his guards.
The Transformers
- Megatron — Godd
- Shockwave — keiths31
- Ironhide — Gozar
- Blackout — Night Strike
- Tarantulus — spidey
- Grimlock — Timminz
- Glyph — amazzony
- Tap-Out — simor
- Cliffjumper — barterer2002
- Barricade — thekidstrumpet
- Brawl — Afrodwarf
- Primus — Serbia
- Blitzwing — BaldAdonis
- Bumblebee — rallison
- Sunstreaker — LadyPhoenix
- Arcee — Arcee
- Jazz — Luxurious
- Tieryn — Wheeljack
Important Details
- 100 Total Players
- Premium is NOT required.
- Non-premium players must commit to 1 open slot at all times.
- All players will be given 48 hours to join their games before being replaced.
- Alliances, secret or announced, are not allowed.
- All game settings are chosen by the Transformer Guards
There are 4 known doors to enter into the G1 Stronghold but space inside these doors is limited so you must fight hard to win. For each door 25% of the players will play in a multi-player game where only the winner may enter the door.
Set-Up Details: Midkemdil, seq, flat, unlimited, no fog
Door 1 (25 players in 5 player games) 5 winners advance
Door 2 (25 players in 5 player games) 5 winners advance
Door 3 (25 players in 5 player games) 5 winners advance
Door 4 (25 players in 5 player games) 5 winners advance
Secret level: A secret hidden door has been found where only 4 players can make it through. All second place players from Round 1 will have another chance to enter the stronghold. All second place finishers from each door play each other where each winner may enter.
Set-Up Details: Dust Bowl, seq, flat, unlimited, no fog
Door 1 (2nd placers in a 5 player game) Winner advances
Door 2 (2nd placers in a 5 player game) Winner advances
Door 3 (2nd placers in a 5 player game) Winner advances
Door 4 (2nd placers in a 5 player game) Winner advances
Round 2 (Second Level of the G1 Stronghold)
Inside the stronghold all players who emerged victorious from the first level find 3 hallways leading deeper inside. They split up evenly down each hallway and suddenly they find themselves facing pairs of Transformer Guards ready to do battle. Quickly, you are all paired up to fight them 2-vs-2 in a doubles game to earn the right to continue in your quest. If you can beat them in 20 rounds or less you will be able enter the next level. If you lose you will be reshuffled with possible new partners and have a second chance.
Round 3 (Third Level of the G1 Stronghold)
At the end of the hallway you find a round room where all the hallways met again but in order to pass through the room you must fight the Transformer Guard 1-v-1 to make it past. You must be quick cannot take too long for if you cannot beat one of them in 15 rounds or less then you have failed.
All those that lose to a Transformer Guard still hold a glimmer hope, for if all those that make it past this level end up getting beat by Megatron you may have another chance to advance.
Round 4 (Fourth Level of the G1 Stronghold)
Making it past the the round room you find a steep winding staircase leading up. It is narrow so only 3 players at a time can start the climb. Once again you are suddenly shocked to find trios of Transformer Guards on the stairs. You must fight them and defeat them within 15 rounds to get by them or wait until those who do make it have failed to beat Megatron.
Round 5 (The Tower of the G1 Stronghold)
You have entered the tower and see Megatron laughing at you. Only one player can challenge him at a time so you must fight to find who will be the first to try to be the champion and bring Megatron down. All players who have made it this far play in a multi-player game and are ranked according to how they finish. This ranking will determine who faces Megatron first and so on.
Round 6 (Megatron's Lair)
Players will line up for their turn at Megatron. If you fall then you are finished here and the next place player may step forward for the next challenge.
The first player who defeats Megatron in single combat will be crowned champion and will forever live with the glory that accompanies returning Optimus Prime to his rightful place as leader of Generation One!
Set-up Details: Classic, Flat, Unlimited, Fog on
1 vs Megatron (In order of ranking from The Tower)


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I mostly make the standard A2 size cards, so this is perfect for me. Very occasionally I make a larger card for one of my grandkids, but then it is only a 5 x7, and the board will handle the paper to make an envelope for this size card just fine.
I have the Martha Stewart board with the envelope template, and if I need to make a really large envelope, which is not at all likely, I can use it.
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Making the scoring lines takes a little practice. Because you can't really feel it with your fingers, you have to learn exactly where to begin scoring at the top. Also, don't press too hard with the scoring bone if using thin paper because it would be fairly easy to cut it.
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Dear Editor:
"Look before you leap" is a word to the wise. The people of Oregon now have the opportunity to look at what they may leap into in November, a proposal on the ballot to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
Many things we own, like a car, can become more trouble than they are worth, and we junk them. Human life is not the same. That's why we have medicine in the first place. We try to cure, and when we can't cure, we care. But we never kill. The question of whether the patient does it or the physician does it is secondary. The current proposal legitimizes killing.
No matter what "safeguards" you put on a law, you cannot make killing safe, nor can you make it right. Nor will Oregon or the rest of the country be able to escape the logic of death, which this proposal enshrines, namely, that death can be a solution. If death is a solution in one case, why not in another? If a sick person can do it, why not a troubled teenager? If we recognize a "right to death" for a person who requests it, you can be sure people will come along, maybe relatives, who will remind the sick person of his/her "right," and introduce a pressure to die. A government that grants a "right" to die can easily proclaim a duty to die.
Make no mistake. To support this initiative is both morally and logically a disaster. Instead of proposing death as a solution, let's rally to the help, support, care and love of the sick and dying.
Sincerely,Fr. Frank A. PavoneNational Director, Priests for Life
Priests for Life, a national association of Catholic clergy, is calling for strong opposition to Ballot Measure 16, the measure on the November ballot in Oregon to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
The National Director, Fr. Frank Pavone, stated, "Even the proposal to enshrine in law the right to kill oneself turns both law and medicine upside down. The purpose of law and medicine is to protect and save life. A proposal such as the Death with Dignity Act makes life a disposable item. It is simply wrong to vote in favor of this proposal. I trust that the people of Oregon have the wisdom to see this."


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'White Supremacism'
These white racists and anti-semites have the gall to say multiculturalism is bad, whites should be able to have nations for themselves, jewish power has a negative influence, and even that the Holocaust is a fraud.
Brown pride is ok
It's kosher for blacks, asians, hispanics, jews, and every other non-white race to take pride in their ethnicity and heritage, and to organize for the interests of their race.
NAACP, Negro College Fund, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Jewish Defense League, Asian-only scholarships, etc....super.
The idea of nations exclusively for whites is 'repugnant'
Only hateful bigots and racists talk about white people having nations exclusively for their people.
Nations exclusively for non-whites is acceptable
Whether is Israel for jews only, a Palestine for ethnic Palestinian Arabs, ethnic Kurds in Iraq fighting for independence, China for Chinese, or Mexico for Mexicans....the non-white races are allowed to have countries for their people.
E.g., Mohawk Indians evict non-Mohawks from their lands; Banned inter-racial marriages in 1981, Canadian courts uphold policy
The Canadian courts have ruled that "Mohawks can make any membership policy they deem necessary for their survival as a people". [1]
Well if it's kosher for Indians and other people to enact these policies for the preservation of their race and culture...then why can't whites/Europeans do the same?
White nations must be flooded with non-whites
Why is virtually every single white nation on the earth being forced to accept millions of foreign non-white immigrants?
Why doesn't China import 2-3 million black Africans every year? Why doesn't Mexico allow a million Asian immigrants into their country every year? Don't they want the blessings of diversity?
Wait, is there a...double standard?
Could it be that there is an anti-white agenda behind these blatant double standards?
The cultural and racial genocide of the white race is the goal
Are we to believe that whites in the 'democratic' Western nations are voting in favor of mass non-white immigration and their own cultural, racial, and national suicide?
If not, then who really controls their governments, media, and social institutions...and is forcing the 'multicultural' agenda upon them?
Jewish-controlled Media and Hollywood
You may have happened to notice that Hollywood and Western 'mainstream' media are completely dominated and controlled by jewish interests. Even jews admit it.
Through their stranglehold on the media, jews relentlessly push the multicultural, race-mixing agenda.
Jewish-controlled government
Through their control of international banking, elite jewish interests completely control the governments of the Western nations. Everyone from preeminent political scholars to White House press correspondent Helen Thomas has noted this fact. But, of course, they are demonized as "anti-semites" and "racists" in the jewish-controlled establishment media.
Billy Graham admits the truth
In a private conversation with President Richard Nixon, Billy Graham said that "Satanic left-wing jews totally control the media", and were destroying America. Graham even called the jews a "synagogue of Satan." [2]
The jewish "New World Order" conspiracy
The "New World Order" conspiracy is ultimately Satanic in origin, and aims to destroy white/Western Christian civilization, and conquer the world for Satan. The agenda pushes for 'global governance' and the erosion of national sovereignty.
Elite jews lead by the immensely powerful international jewish banking cabal are orchestrating this movement.
Jewish interests are behind the drive for a "New World Order" at every turn - eg, promoting feminism and homosexuality to destroy the family, promoting atheism to destroy belief in 'God', and orchestrating third world immigration to destroy white nations and to genocide the white race via race-mixing.
Jews are behind Communism/Marxism/Socialism
Communism is a jewish ideology, created and lead by jews from the very beginning. It is simply a vehicle for implementing their planned 'New World Order' and achieving world jewish domination.
The ideology calls for the overthrow of all existing governments and religions. It is a ruse promising a "socialist utopia for the working class", causing the masses to revolt and install the jewish leaders of the movement into power, whereby they can conduct their agenda of mass destruction, theft and genocide.
A 'Synagogue of Satan'
Yahushua the Messiah (aka 'Jesus') condemned the jews of his day in the strongest of terms, as literal "children of the devil", "full of hypocrisy and iniquity", and "children of hell" (Matthew 23).
Yahshua speaking to the jewish Pharisees:
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." - John 8:44
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" -Matthew 23:33
Revelation 2:9: "I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Judahites, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."
But aren't we all brothers and sisters?
So Adam and Eve (or Noah) had white, black, indian, and asian children? That's what the Judeo-controlled Christian churches teach.
If you actually stop and think for a minute, it's actually biologically impossible for all the races to share a common ancestry.
The Bible actually teaches that all humans are not of common ancestry
The Bible -- when translated and interpreted correctly-- confirms the fact that Adam was not the first "human". There were other people on the earth before Adam was created. That is why Cain feared other people would kill him after he was banished, and how Cain was able to find a wife, have his own descendants, and build a city after being banished from Adam & Eve and their descendants.
Whom, then, are the descendants of Adam and Eve? The evidence strongly indicates that it is the white race. The word "Adam" in the Hebrew is "aw-dam'", which means "to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy". See for yourself in Strong's Hebrew Lexicon here:
Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Search Results Result of search for "Adam": 119 'adam aw-dam' to show blood (in the face), i.e. flush or turn rosy:--be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
Race-mixing is a sin
The sixth commandment against "adultery" includes prohibition against corruption of the bloodline by intermarrying/mixing with foreign races.
YHWH (aka 'God') specifically commanded the Israelites to practice racial segregation, and forbid race-mixing.
Here are just a few scriptures on this:
Ezra 9:2 "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the HOLY SEED have MIXED themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this TRESPASS."
Hosea 5:7 "They have dealt treacherously against YAHWEH: for they have begotten STRANGE children:"
Note: The word "strange" from Hosea 5:7 is from the Hebrew word "zuwr", meaning "a foreigner".
Deuteronomy 23:2: "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord."
Note: The word "bastard" above in Deuteronomy 23:2 is from the Hebrew word "mamzer", which is defined as "a mongrel" or person of mixed-race.
The "jews" are NOT Israelites
Modern-day so-called "jews" actually descended from tribes of people known as the Edomites and the Khazars, a Mongolian-Turkish people from modern-day southern Russia who converted to Judaism in the 8th or 9th century A.D. Jewish researcher Arthur Koestler admitted this in his 1976 book "The Thirteenth Tribe", which was based largely on the earlier work "The history of the Jewish Khazars" by D.M. Dunlop (1967).
These Khazars were, in fact, actually descended from the Edomites, originially from the area south of the Dead Sea near the land of Israel.
The Edomites are the descendants of Esau, Jacob/Israel's brother.
The True Israelites
The White Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and kindred peoples are the true descendants of the Israelites.
The couterfeit "Israelite" jews are intent on destroying the real descendants of the Israelites.
God hates the Edomite "jews" - Promises their future destruction in a real 'Holocaust'
Malachi 1: 3-4: "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever."
Obadiah 1:18: "And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it."
The Holocaust™ Canard
An absurd jewish fairytale, complete with the sacred never-changing 6 million number, ridiculous false atrocity fairytales of soap, lampshades and shrunken heads made of jews, and gassing people to death with bug spray in delousing chambers.
Yes, the Germans put many jews (and non-jews) in camps, but these camps were work camps, not "extermination" camps. There was no plan by Germany to "exterminate all the jews". Those who died in the camps died overwhelmingly from typhus and other diseases due to the breakdown in conditions inside Germany and Poland due to the war. Nowhere near 6 million jews died in the camps. Records show only tens of thousands of jews (and non-jews) died in all of the German camps.
The jews tried this swindle before WWII, alleging a "Holocaust" of "6 million jews" occured in 1906, 1919, and 1921.
The Holocaust lie is a desperate attempt to prevent the real holocaust that 'God' has prepared for them. It is critical to the jewish NWO conspiracy as it acts to prevent criticism and opposition to elite jewry and their wicked agenda.
Kosher Controlled Opposition
In order to further deter whites from adopting 'racialist' ideals, jews have created and infiltrated 'white nationalist' organizations. They intentionally direct (and then portray in their controlled media) these organizations to appear as foolish and 'evil' as possible. Then the jewish-controlled media uses these clowns to demonize and ridicule by association all whites who stand in opposition to the 'multiculturalist' race-mixing agenda.
As communist jew Lenin stated, "the best way to control the opposition is to lead it."
Jews actually funded and created the German Nazi party. Through jewish groups like the ADL and SPLC, they fund and create the neo-Nazi groups, and infiltrate and control similar groups, including the KKK.
The myth of the Holocaust, and the jewish-controlled African slave industry of the past add to the mental conditioning.
Jews Controlled African Slave Trade
Though little known, it is a well-documented historical fact that jews dominated and controlled the trans-Atlantic African slave trade of the 15th-19th centuries.
This historical reality has been researched and documented by both jewish and black scholars.
So why should whites continue to cower away from "racism" and feel guilty for African slavery of the distant past, especially when it was controlled by jews?
The Architects of 'anti-Racist' Political Correctness
The powerful jewish ADL (and similar jewish organizations all over the world) are at the forefront of 'anti-racist' propaganda in all its forms.
The ADL and other 'anti-racist' jewish groups advise world leaders and lawmakers on such things as the adoption of "hate crime" and "holocaust denial" laws, and train police officers on "tolerance" and the identification of "right-wing extremists" and "domestic terrorists."
The ADL is an attack dog, and specializes in demonizing groups and ideas dangerous to the jewish NWO/Communist agenda - including Holocaust revisionists, white nationalists, anti-abortion activists, Constitutionalist/Patriot groups, and the militias.
What is a nation?
A "nation", in the true sense and as observed in history, is defined as a group of people with a common ethnicity and culture. A "nation" is not a multitude of races ruled by one particular government or enclosed by a geographic boundary. Multi-racial countries will not last so long as distinct racial groups exist, as eventually the nation will fracture, with one or more racial groups seeking "independence" and a nation for themselves.
So what is the Establishment's outcry against "racism" really all about?
The so-called "evil" of 'racism' is a construct of the Satanic jewish-controlled media and establishment used as a psychological weapon of war against whites - in order to enable the attempted destruction and genocide of the white nations and people via mass third world non-white immigration and miscegenation.
It's completely 'kosher' for jews, blacks, asians, and hispanics to express pride in their race, organize for their collective interests, and have nations exclusively for their people.
Why do the jews say that whites can't do these things? Because the Satanic Edomite/Khazar jews have targetted whites (the true Israelites) for cultural and racial genocide, in order destroy Western Christian Civilization and achieve world jewish domination.
Other Articles of Interest:
- YHWH Prohibits Race-Mixing and Commands Racial Purity and Segregation
- The myth of the "brotherhood" of humanity; Adam not the first man, but father of only the white race
- In Defense of White Supremacy - 1) It's simply an objective fact, and 2) Whites should owe allegiance to their own people above all others
- Biblical Christianity, YHWH the Almighty Creator, and Yahshua the Messiah are 'racist' & 'anti-Semitic' - Racism is divinely ordained
- Racial origin of the "Jews"; not Israelites, but descendants of Khazars, Edomites, Canaanites, Cain, and ultimately Satan
- Yahshua the Messiah was not a 'jew'
- The Mystery of the True Descendants of the Israelites - The White Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Kindred Peoples
- Introduction to the Holocaust™ Hoax
- Adolf Hitler - A puppet of International Jewry tasked with the destruction of Germany
- Communist Genocide in Soviet Union - Jewish Bolsheviks Murder 60+ Million in Russia & Ukraine, 1917-1987
- The Horror of Anti-Semitism - Why Do People Hate the Jews?


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jerry Horn
Atlanta, GA – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, along with Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life, issued the following statement today in response to concerns that the description of abortion as a "holocaust" trivializes what happened to our Jewish brothers and sisters:
"Approximately 50 million human beings have been killed in the United States since Roe v. Wade permitted abortion throughout pregnancy. Children have been torn limb from limb by surgical forceps and killed with suction tubes – not because of anything they did, but just because they existed.
"If abortion isn't a holocaust, we need to rewrite every dictionary.
"Periodically, protests arise when someone links the term 'holocaust' to abortion. The National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, finds former Governor Mike Huckabee's reference to the 'holocaust of liberalized abortion' to be offensive. He writes that the Holocaust was a 'unique tragedy in human history.'
"With all due respect to Mr. Foxman and others who recoil at the use of the word holocaust to describe abortion, a clarification is in order.
"The term 'the Holocaust' refers to the slaughter of six million Jews by Hitler's Germany. The proper noun attached to this horrific period, however, does not preempt the use of the word in its common meaning to describe the killing of a million Rwandans, over one million Armenians, or two million Cambodians; neither does it prevent its use in describing the killing of 50 million Americans.
"Abortion is a holocaust that has taken and continues to take more human lives than any holocaust in human history. We are deeply concerned at how easily so many people trivialize this slaughter of the unborn, especially since it hasn't yet stopped."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Now, with shrinking technology budgets and rising Microsoft licensing fees, it's time for IT to seriously consider desktop Linux deployment as an alternative to Windows. The timing for this couldn't be better: Windows 8.1 was just released, as was the latest version of Ubuntu, 13.10. Windows XP has just five months of support left, so companies need to make the switch to something new. Ubuntu may just have what companies need to support their desktop OS needs. I'll look at various considerations for making the Linux desktop switch, including training and support, as well as potential complications.
I know that Ubuntu has lost some of the favor it once enjoyed in the open source community. Canonical, the creators of Ubuntu, have made some unpopular choices, including changing the display manager -- the base component of the graphical interface in Linux-- to the internally developed Mir instead of Wayland. However, Ubuntu remains completely open source and offers the most painless install of any Linux distribution or even Windows version, for that matter. Canonical also offers paid support, which may be needed in enterprise environments.
There has always been the argument that end users will need retraining if they switch over to a new desktop interface. Microsoft's controversial decision to overhaul the familiar interface for Windows 8.1 now requires just as much training as switching to Linux. Ubuntu's Unity desktop has evolved into a user friendly interface that is arguably more easily understood by end users than Windows 8.1.
For example, compare how a user shuts down the system in each operating system. In all recent versions of Ubuntu, it starts with one click in the right corner of the screen, where the symbol for on-off is located. A menu drops down and one more click shuts down the machine. Windows 8.1 requires a right-click on the Start button, where a menu drops down allowing for a shutdown. This was a vast improvement over Windows 8, which required a trip to the charms bar, but still not as obvious as an icon located directly on the screen.
End-user training for applications is a less complex task nowadays, thanks to the Windows versions of many popular open source applications. Users may already be familiar with Firefox, LibreOffice, Pidgin, and VLC Media Player on Windows. Commercial applications used in business, such as Skype and Adobe Acrobat, function just like their Windows equivalents. Cloud-based applications such as Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365 work well on Ubuntu.
Legacy Windows applications can be accessed through the familiar Citrix client or open source RDP clients. Companies also can use open source virtualization products such as VirtualBox to run the most stubborn legacy Windows applications.
[Read about the security improvements Windows 8 offers businesses, as well as its downsides in "Windows 8 Benefits And Challenges."]
On the support front, many technicians will remember the earlier days of Linux when hardware support was extremely limited. That simply is not the case anymore.
Linux hardware support is oftentimes better than the latest versions of Windows. Many hardware vendors have been dropping driver support for newer versions of Windows. The open source drivers in Linux can be kept up to date by anyone in the developer community, so a lot of older hardware is fully supported in the latest versions of Ubuntu. This fact, plus Ubuntu's lower system requirements, will allow companies to extend the life of hardware once destined for the recycling bin.
While there are upsides to a Linux desktop replacement program, there are some potential difficulties companies should consider. While many technicians have already been using Linux or will be motivated by the prospect of learning new skills, there also will be technicians who have spent a lot of time developing a comfort level managing Windows and may be reluctant to embrace the change.
Citing salary trends is one way to address this potential issue. The salaries of positions with Linux skills requirements are rising at nearly double the rate of other technical professionals, according to Dice.
Companies under stringent compliance requirements may have difficulties switching over to Linux. For example, HIPAA requires encryption that meets FIPS-140-2 requirements. Most open source encryption projects do not have sponsors to get them through the NIST certification to meet this requirement. Open source may actually be more secure than proprietary software because of the number of people that have reviewed the source code, but surprisingly that doesn't matter in the world of compliance.
Businesses need to understand their compliance requirements and develop a plan for training IT staff before deciding to move forward with a full conversion. But overall, Ubuntu Linux has matured into a viable alternative to proprietary operating systems in the enterprise. The effort companies put into a Linux desktop replacement program will be worth the savings in licensing fees. Next year may finally be the "year of the Linux desktop."


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Harsh winter weather is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, with mounting losses due to slow retail sales, travel disruption and other factors, economists said.
The fallout of frigid temperatures in December and January includes jobs lost, flights canceled, slower retail sales and oil production curtailed, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
"Following a solid holiday sales season, it seems that many consumers decided to take a break from the stores and shopping malls this January in an attempt to avoid winter weather," National Retail Federation President Mathew Shay said this week.
A survey of economists indicated economic losses amount to an estimated at $47 billion, as the bitter grip of winter has set the gross domestic product back by 0.3 percentage points.
The losses include an estimated 32,000 jobs in December, 25,000 in January and 19,000 so far in February, the newspaper said.
"The January freeze and crippling storms gripping the eastern United States and upper Midwest are having significant impacts on normal life and commerce," said University of Maryland economics professor Peter Morici, who estimated losses from the most recent storm that battered the Northeast at $20 billion to $40 billion.


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CHICAGO (AP) -- Paul Konerko got a big milestone home run and the White Sox got a sweep of the only team between them and the AL Central lead.
Konerko's tiebreaking three-run homer was his 400th for the White Sox and Chicago routed the Cleveland Indians 12-6 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
The White Sox have won five straight for the first time this season and nine of 10 overall.
Konerko, who extended his hitting streak to 13 games, also came out for a curtain call after fans chanted "Paul-ie!" Paul-ie!" following No. 400.
"It's probably the thing I'm proud of most, more than any numbers," he said. "I'm proud of that one fact of just being here as long as I have."
Drafted by the Dodgers in 1994, Konerko played in 55 games for Los Angeles and 26 for Cincinnati before coming to Chicago in a trade after the 1998 season.
The 36-year-old first baseman hit 31 homers last season and 39 the year before that.
"He's figured something out," Gordon Beckham said of Konerko. "The last three years it just seems like he's been unbelievable. It's fun to run out on the field every day with him, that's for sure."
Chicago has homered in 13 consecutive games for the first time since 2006, and scored nine or more runs in four consecutive games. The White Sox haven't accomplished that feat since June 27-30, 1938, the White Sox said, citing the Elias Sports Bureau in statistics distributed by the team.
In the fourth inning, Konerko battled back from an 0-2 count against Ubaldo Jimenez in the fourth inning and deposited the eighth pitch of the at-bat into the left-center field seats to give Chicago a 7-4 lead.
Konerko finished with two hits and four RBIs, and raised his average to a majors-best .399.
"Paul Konerko is just a professional hitter and he has been for years," Indians manager Manny Acta said. "There's only so much you can do. He's a good one."
Johnny Damon hit a three-run homer for the Indians, his first of the season, and Jimenez (5-4) struggled over four-plus innings. He gave up seven runs and seven hits, walked four and struck out three.
Gavin Floyd (4-5) wasn't much better. He allowed five runs on 10 hits over five-plus innings. He also hit three batters with pitches.
The White Sox beat the Indians 14-7 on Saturday and 9-3 on Friday. They have scored 93 runs in their last 13 games.
Jimenez (5-4) gave up seven runs in four-plus innings. He walked four and struck out three.
"Ubaldo didn't throw enough strikes and had a tough time putting hitters away," Acta said. "He gave up two-strike hits that really hurt him and just couldn't locate his pitches."
The Cleveland right-hander is 1-3 with a 6.21 ERA in six career starts against the White Sox.
Floyd He has given up 21 runs over his last three starts, but the offense was able to bail him out this time.
Chicago jumped out to an early lead with three runs in the bottom of the first. Konerko drove in the first run on a fielder's choice after Jimenez loaded the bases with nobody out. Alex Rios and Alexei Ramirez followed with RBI singles.
Cleveland tied the game quickly in the second on Damon's homer. Things could have been much worse for Floyd, who struck out three in a row after allowing the first five Indians to reach.
Ramirez put the White Sox back in front with a two-out RBI single in the third, but Michael Brantley's run-scoring single tied it again.
Floyd again dodged trouble by turning a one-out comebacker into an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded.
The White Sox tacked on three more in the fifth on back-to-back triples by Orlando Hudson and Alejandro De Aza.
Dayan Viciedo drove in two with a bases loaded single in the ninth.
Cleveland catcher Lou Marson was hit in the face by a pitch in the fourth inning and left the game in the fifth with what the team said was a bruise. Cleveland placed No. 1 catcher Carlos Santana on the 7-day disabled list Saturday after diagnosing a concussion.
Juan Diaz led off the third with a single for the Indians, his first big league hit. He also singled and scored in the sixth.
NOTES: White Sox 3B Brent Morel (back) took batting practice Sunday and is hoping to begin a rehab assignment on Wednesday with Triple-A Charlotte. . LHP John Danks (shoulder) played soft toss on Sunday and said his arm feels "better than it did a few days ago," noting that he still feels some discomfort in the back of his arm. . Indians SS Asdrubal Cabrera (tight left hamstring) will run and take batting practice on Monday. He hasn't played since leaving Friday night's game in the seventh inning. . Chris Sale (5-2, 2.50 ERA) pitches the series opener for the White Sox in Tampa Bay on Monday. Josh Tomlin (1-2, 4.67) will go for Cleveland against Kansas City.


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Benchmarking is a term heard throughout the tech industry as a measure of success and pride in a particular solution's ability to handle this or that workload. However, most benchmarks feature a simulated workload, and in reality, a deployed solution may perform much differently. This is especially true with databases, since the types of data and workloads can vary greatly.
StorageReview.com and MarkLogic recently bucked the benchmarking trend, developing a benchmark that tests storage systems against an actual NoSQL database instance. Testing is done in the StorageReview lab, and the first round focused heavily on host-side flash solutions. Not surprisingly, flash-accelerated solutions took the day, with the lowest overall latencies for all database operations, generally blowing non-flash solutions out of the water and showing that NoSQL database environments can benefit significantly from the addition of flash-accelerated systems.
In order to accurately test all of these flash solutions, the test environment had to be set up so that no other component would bottleneck the testing. As it's often the interconnect between database, client and storage nodes that limits overall system performance, StorageReview plumbed the test setup with none other than Mellanox ultra low-latency, FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand adapter cards and switches to ensure full flash performance realization and true apples-to-apples test results.
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Is this one of the things you saw?Something odd, its definately been off the car, but I don't have my tag files at work to compare this to, but I'm leaning towards it being a repro tag. It is a sweet looking car though.Not originally a gauge car, since it doesn't have a clock in the center of the dash.
Mark, I'm just curious. After checking further did you decide if your suspicions were right and this one has a repop tag?
It is not consistent with other tags of the same week, I have a bunch of tags from the same timeframe as this one and they don't have the same characters style on several of the numbers. So yes I would say it is a repro. The body number is also probably the original number though. No telling what the car was originally now, was it just a color change on a Z, or was it a base 307 coupe.
There are other Garnet Red 69 Z cars out there, just have to be patient to find an original, or a nice correct resto.


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I tried to play Pegasus Prime on Android and the game starts fine however I have a quite important problem with it, I can't start any game at all because the arrow keys do not move the highlighted menu option (the default option is "Inteface Overview").
I tried to move the selected option by a lot of ways but it did not work. I actually did it one time but it was by accident and I do not even remember how I did it.
Any help is welcome.Last edited by JORGETECH on Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:18 pm; edited 1 time in total
First of all, how did you manage to run this game on Android? I tried but without success (see my thread: http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=14180).
I have copied the data from the mac release I have. I followed the ScummVm wiki as reference to copy the files.
What scummvm version do you use?
Ok, solved this problem by choosing onscreen d-pad control in start menu. Arrow keys are working well.


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Some time ago, I don't quite remember when, I told you that my output was slow because I was adjusting to a new medicine for controlling my migraines. Fortunately, not only did the medicine work against the headaches, I also got used to it sufficiently to get my old brain back. Sadly, though, as is often the case with these medicines, it suddenly stopped doing its job.
Since life with migraines isn't much to celebrate, I contacted my neurologist, who has put me on a new medicine to control migraines. I've been on the medicine for three days now, and have been migraine-free for the second and third day, so that's a good sign.
The down side of this experiment is that, as happened with the last go-round of migraine medicines, the creative, analytical part of my brain has shut down. I usually see words and ideas in these layered, interlocking dimensions. Ideas for posts explode in my head and the posts pretty much write themselves (for better or worse, as the case may be).
Today, however, with the new medicine doing its anti-migraine magic, I can barely think in one dimension, let alone multiple, interlocking layers. Ideas float vaguely through my head — e.g., "Obama = hubris = ancient Greeks = new concept in America, which hasn't ever had rule by an unfettered monarch" — only to lie there. I can't build them into anything.
I anticipate that, as happened the last time around, my brain will adjust and I'll start being able to write with fluidity and verve again (for better or worse, as the case may be). Until then, I hope you'll bear with me if my blogging is a little weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.
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The U.S. House passed a bill undoing income tax increases for more than 99 percent of households, giving a victory to President Barack Obama even as Republicans vowed to fight him in coming weeks for spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.
The 257-167 vote just after 11 p.m. yesterday capped a tension-filled final push as Republicans balked at a bipartisan Senate bill. House Speaker John Boehner ordered a vote even though 151 of 236 Republicans, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor, ultimately voted no. Obama said he'd sign it into law.
"The deficit needs to be reduced in a way that's balanced," Obama said at the White House. He said top earners and corporations should pay even more and that Congress must raise the debt ceiling. "Everyone pays their fair share. Everyone does their part," he said.
The final days of drama surrounding the so-called fiscal cliff of scheduled tax increases and spending cuts illustrated the partisan struggle that has made U.S. budget policy unpredictable and prone to crises as deadlines approach. Obama wielded the leverage he gained in his Nov. 6 re-election. Still, he fell short of reaching with Republicans a larger deficit- reduction grand bargain.
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Republicans immediately turned to their next battle -- a bid to use the need to raise the nation's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling to force Obama to accept cuts in entitlement programs such as Medicare. Congress must act as early as mid-February to prevent a default and the dispute may reprise a similar 2011 episode that led to a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
"Without meaningful reform of entitlements, real spending controls, and a fairer, cleaner tax code, our debt will continue to grow, and our economy will continue to stumble," Boehner said in a statement after the vote.
Obama said he's "very open to compromise." Medicare spending can be reduced, he said, yet "we can't simply cut our way to prosperity."
Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index expiring in March added 1.6 percent to 1,442.4 at 7:23 a.m. in New York. The equity benchmark surged 1.7 percent on Dec. 31, the biggest rally on the final day of a year since 1974, as Republican and Democratic lawmakers made last-minute concessions to finalize the deal. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures soared 168 points, or 1.3 percent, to 13,200 at 7:23 a.m. The benchmark 10- year yield for Treasury bonds rose seven basis points, or 0.07 percentage points, to 1.83 percent at 7:33 a.m. in New York.
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It was hard not to notice the gang signs marking the side of a garage across from the baseball field at Kelly Park where the Brighton Kelly Baseball League holds its practices and games.
"It stuck out like a sore thumb," said Leo Jacquez, a league coach and a 38-year-old Brighton Park resident. "Some of the kids started asking me what they [referring to the gang signs] meant, and if a 10-year-old is asking about something like this it is obviously affecting them."
Jacquez said he could no longer ignore the gang-related graffiti, but instead of simply painting over the markings (which he noted the garage owners have done several times), he and other members of the Brighton Kelly Baseball League decided to use it as an opportunity to do something for the community by creating a mural.
"Our goal is to send a message to everyone in the [Brighton Park] community that this is our park, our children and our community," Jacquez said. "We are reclaiming our park."
As a longtime resident of the neighborhood, Jacquez said the Brighton Kelly Baseball League, which started more than 60 years ago, has always been a big part of the community.
The league consists of 12 teams and more than 150 children from the community. Jacquez also said the league is managed by people who volunteer their time to help coach and mentor the players.
"It really helps the kids escape from the violence and gangs in the community," he said. "For me, it's no other feeling like seeing a kid I coached grow up to do positive things."
The league chose young artists Noel Godinez and David Barrera, who both attend Kelly High School directly across the street from the park, to create the baseball-themed mural.
Barrera, a member of the baseball league from age 8 to 12, said he is happy to be working with his former team again.
"This shows the progress that the team has had," the 16-year-old Brighton Park resident said. "I think that once everyone sees the mural, they're going to see the impact that the team has on the community, because not just any team would do something like this."
Godinez, a 16-year-old Back of the Yards resident, said while working on the mural the group has had no problems with people writing over their work and thinks the mural could be an effective method to stop gangs from vandalizing the wall in the future.
"Covering up graffiti how the city does it doesn't really help," Godinez said. "I think [a mural] is the best way to end it because when they see that other people in the community are trying to do something, they'll respect that more than just covering [the gang signs] up and know that there's boundaries."
Jacquez said the Brighton Kelly Baseball League will unveil the finished mural at its trophy day/ cookout event at Kelly Park, which starts at 10 a.m. Aug. 10.
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How much more is there to say about angry, razor-toothed fish that want nothing more than to feed indiscriminately upon anything crossing their path? Piranha 3DD answers that question with a resounding "not much." Despite the presence of David Hasselhoff, strong pool jets, and a complete lack of regard for human anatomy, Piranha 3DD just tries too hard.
It brings me no joy to put this in writing. I bought my ticket to Piranha 3D in 2010, powering through my own major real-life injury to point and laugh at other people's movie injuries. The film had an accidental beauty, being a graceful ballet of unspeakable gore and naughtiness that I reveled in despite the frozen peas on my ankle hoisted on the seat in front of me. But, in typical Hollywood style, they zeroed in on all the hastily scrawled "underwater naked scene" comments left on the test audience's reaction cards, and made that the focus of their second movie. So the double D in the title is no trick designed to lure you in--that's all the movie really consists of. The enormous amounts of blood and gore that were positively breathtaking in the last film are thrown to the side in favor of lame jokes and nipples. I was obviously not their target demographic for this film, but it still wasn't as much fun as its predecessor.
Lake Victoria was devastated by the piranha the first time around. Next on the list lies Big Wet, a water park run by David Koechner, where the only business plan seems to be "dishonesty around as many big-breasted girls as possible." That same plan has worked for countless B-movies before it, so why not this one? The answer: self awareness. Danielle Panabaker plays the disapproving stepdaughter home from college, who wants nothing more than to reconnect with her hot ex (Chris Zylka), ignore the best friend who's in love with her (Matt Bush), and have fun at the family's water park. Stepdaddy is ruining all that, though, because his thirst for money has given him the great idea of turning the water park into a Girls Gone Wild video come to life. Cue the fish. It all goes really, really poorly.
The usual assortment of goofy and expendable water park employees are hovering around, having sex (with both people and pool appliances) and getting chomped on by the hungry fishies. Every storyline seems like a desperate attempt to liven up what is going to be a really disappointing climax, but it doesn't work. The craziest thing that happens involves Katrina Bowden from 30 Rock, and to describe it would only sound like I am exaggerating to prove a point. It was easily the stupidest, most forced thing I have seen in five years--which made it both disgusting and fantastic. It was the only thing that stands out about the movie among the endless parade of knockers, aside from the Hoff.
Let's talk about David Hasselhoff for a second. He's great. And he's collecting a paycheck for this movie while pretending to collect a paycheck as a celebrity lifeguard for the water park's opening day. He makes fun of redheaded kids and ends up being a voice of reason for the film, almost in the same breath.
I have been swimming in an Ecuadorian river infested with piranha and didn't even feel as much as a nibble. That, along with this movie, define anti-climactic.
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There is really nothing new in yesterday's New York Times article on justice, PLO-style with respect to alleged informants under the jurisdiction of the Nobel Peace Prize winner: "Coerced or not, Palestinians who assist Israel face death." The underlying facts are highly instructive though many years old.
On its Web site, for example, Amnesty International tells the story of 'Alan Bani 'Odeh, who was executed by firing squad in the town of Nablus on January 13, 2001. He had been sentenced to death by the Higher State Security Court in Nablus on December 7, 2000 after a trial that lasted less than three hours. He was charged with collaborating with the Israeli security services in the killing of his cousin.
What is to be done? Amnesty International thoughtfully recommends that you write Yasser Arafat, using the saluatation "Dear Presidet Arafat."
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Google Says Scanning Text Of Your Emails To Sell Ads Is Perfectly Legal
In court records filed in advance of a federal hearing scheduled for Thursday in San Jose, Google argues that "all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing."
The class action lawsuit, filed in May, says Google "unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people's private email messages" in violation of California's privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. The lawsuit notes that the company even scans messages sent to any of the 425 million active Gmail users from non-Gmail users who never agreed to the company's terms.
Google has repeatedly described how it targets its advertising based on words that show up in Gmail messages. For example, the company says if someone has received a lot of messages about photography or cameras then it might display an advertisement from a local camera store. Google says the process is fully automated, "and no humans read your email..."
"This case involves Plaintiffs' effort to criminalize ordinary business practices that have been part of Google's free Gmail service since it was introduced nearly a decade ago," argue company attorneys in their motion to dismiss the case.
Privacy advocates have long questioned the practice.
"People believe, for better or worse, that their email is private correspondence, not subject to the eyes of a $180 billion corporation and its whims," said Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fight Monday among inmates at a prison in the border city of Matamoros left at least eight prisoners injured, some of them gravely, authorities said.
Tamaulipas state authorities said the injured had burns from a fire set by some of the inmates involved in the brawl.
State police officers and soldiers were sent in to stop the fight and put out the fire, which also damaged the prison, officials said in a brief statement.
Authorities didn't say if those involved in the fight were linked to drug trafficking. Tamaulipas has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Gulf and Zetas cartels, which have also fought each other inside prisons.
Once one of Mexico's most violent states, Tamaulipas had calmed somewhat by 2012, but violence has re-ignited in recent months.


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Groundhog will host its traditional fireworks extravaganza on Saturday. Ralph Dinosaur will perform from 6 to 11 p.m. There will also be a tomahawk throw starting at 10 a.m., Navajo tacos, fry bread and pyro magic with Keenan Ertel, who is also responsible for the Cortez fireworks. Groundhog fireworks will start at dusk.


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This week's festivities marked the 50th year Cordova has sold refreshments in Plaza Park. On both sides of the Plaza he had booths selling candy apples, funnel cakes and other goodies as part of his business, Duke City Concessions.
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Gift at the Gardner: Not Your Average Museum Shop
- Location: Boston
- Specialty: Fresh gifts and objects inspired by Mrs. Gardner
- Price range: $-$$
- Website: gift.gardnermuseum.org
Store History
- Founded: January 2012
- Headquarters: Boston, MA
Gift is the type of shop you'd expect to see on Charles Street in Beacon Hill: full of pretty stationery, gorgeous books and art, and curiosities gathered from around the globe. There are no brick-lined streets outside this storefront — as the newly expanded shop inside the recent addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Gift warrants a visit, admission or not.
This isn't a museum shop filled with uninspired tchotchkes and the same old art prints. Tucked inside the beautiful glass structure designed by Renzo Piano, Gift at the Gardner is run by former Cursive at ABC Carpet & Home buyer, M.K. Wong. She focuses on gathering items inspired by Mrs. Gardner's love of art, music, and travel. The museum's famous courtyard directly influences the shop, where Wong arranges the table in the window display to evoke the colors and the feeling of the ever-changing garden. Gorgeous Turkish candles with a woodblock print carved into it share space with two happy wooden pig bookends. There are books on Isabella's Italian furniture collection and her travels, Victorian-style trinkets like sculptural opera glasses and delicate mirrored boxes, but also modern typography prints, brightly colored scarves, and pretty silicone coasters. You really won't miss the keychains and floating pens, though a mini-Isabella gliding through her courtyard would be pretty neat.
(Images: Tara Bellucci)


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KCKCC's mission is to provide higher education and lifelong learning to the varied communities, primarily in its service area of Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties.
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KCKCC offers affordable education to students throughout the Kansas City area. In addition, there are a variety of funding sources to assist students including financial aid and scholarships.
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The enrollment management model at KCKCC focuses on service delivery from the point of inquiry through graduation. Each department is staffed with dedicated professionals, driven by a passion to engage students in a relevant and meaningful way. Face-to-face interaction combined with technology is used to deliver services that are both convenient and flexible.
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OKANOGAN Donations are being accepted for the annual Omak-Okanogan Community Christmas Basket Program, which provides holiday food for people in need.
"As we celebrate the holidays with friends and family, counting our blessings during this time of year, it's important to remember those less fortunate than us in our own community," the basket committee said.
The Omak Kiwanis Club and Omak-Okanogan Civic League coordinate the program.
Distribution will be at 8 a.m. Dec. 21 at the Okanogan County Fairgrounds Agriplex, 175 Rodeo Trail Road.
Donations will be accepted from 4-7 p.m. Dec. 16-20. Bulk donations will be assembled into baskets on those days.
Each basket will contain a holiday meal consisting of a meat certificate (small, $10, or large, $12-15), plus canned vegetables (corn and beans suggested), potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing mix and dessert mix, plus staples for a week.
Suggested staple items include rice, beans, cereal, jelly, peanut butter, syrup, pancake mix, oil, tuna, main dish mixes, powdered milk, flour, noodles, soup and fruit or juice.
Donations of individual food items can be made, or a business, group or family can donate a complete basket, organizers said.
Cash donations can be made to the Community Christmas Basket Account at the Omak branch of Wells Fargo Bank, 21 W. First St.
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The tornadoes struck with wicked precision.
Forty-five years ago this weekend, five twisters — three of them F4 giants — descended on the Chicago area, striking so quickly that flight was all but impossible for the victims. It was the worst such storm in the area's history: 58 were killed, including many children, and more than 1,000 people were injured.
In Belvidere, some 70 miles northwest of Chicago, a tornado hit just as school was letting out. The 1,200 high school students tried to escape back into the building, but many younger children who were already waiting in buses were trapped. The winds flipped them in the air and tossed them into nearby fields. Six buses were demolished. One teenager told the Tribune: "I jumped off (the bus), and the wind was so strong that I was blown hundreds of feet into a field. Everything was coming at me, pieces of wood, metal, and other kids. Buses were being blown over and everybody was screaming." More than half of the 24 dead in Belvidere were children.
In south suburban Oak Lawn, where 33 perished, the twister rammed into the intersection of Southwest Highway and 95th Street at rush hour as motorists waited at a red light, flinging cars through the air. It destroyed a supermarket and badly damaged the high school. Eighteen died at that intersection alone. Then it roared up Southwest Highway, seemingly following the roadway before it ripped up a roller rink and destroyed 45 trailers at the Airway Trailer Park.
One woman described the terror: "All over the street were bodies. People started coming out of the stores to help them. A woman came flying thru the air and a man grabbed her, but he couldn't hang on. I don't know what happened to her. You wouldn't believe what I saw in that street."
While Oak Lawn and Belvidere were hardest hit, nearly the entire metro area felt the wrath of the twisters, from Evergreen Park and Palos Hills in the south, Stone Park and Geneva to the west, and Barrington and Lake Zurich to the north. More than 700 homes were demolished or left uninhabitable.
The lead of the front page story the next day captured the anguish of most Chicagoans. It read:
"O, God, why did this happen," the woman asked as she dug with her hands to help clear the rubble.
"I can't take it any longer. I'm going home," a man told a reporter after pulling a dead youth from the ruins of a motel in Oak Lawn. "This is something you would never believe if you didn't see it with your own eyes."
Editor's note: Thanks to Leonard Baugard of Chicago for this Flashback.


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by Susan Mikula Campbell
News about continuing work on the 2013 budget took a back seat at Tuesday's Town of Niagara Town Board meeting to some controversy over a change in the code for driveways and a councilman's unpaid water bill.
The board sent $179,246.77 in unpaid water/sewer bills and charges to the county to be included on the 2013 county tax warrant.
Councilman Robert Clark admitted his was one of the unpaid bills, totaling about $148. "I'm not saying it's right. I had a bill I couldn't pay. ... My family comes first," he said, noting he had experienced a shortfall in funds when the bill was due.
Councilman Danny Sklarski figuratively spanked Clark, saying, "An elected official needs to set an example, especially one who has announced his candidacy for town supervisor."
Clark has announced his plans both on Facebook and in a local weekly paper to run for Supervisor Steve Richard's seat. Richards still has three years left in his term.
"How about you begin that 'new direction' by paying your past due water and sewer bills instead of them being added to county tax rolls where we all have to make up your shortfalls. You have a history of not paying," Sklarski accused. "When I look at some of the senior citizens out here (at the meeting) - they pay their bills on time."
Clark said the county would reimburse the town for the unpaid amount and the charge would be added to his mortgage, so he actually will be paying the bill.
Richards noted delinquent payments force the water department to run short operationally through the year until the bill is paid.
•The board also approved, after a public hearing, a change in the town code allowing concrete aprons at the end of driveways in the town's right-of-way with the understanding that the homeowner is responsible for any damage repair if digging is needed there. The change was proposed by Councilman Marc Carpenter, who said he expects this to become more of an issue as concrete becomes more and more affordable compared to blacktop.
The only speaker on the driveway code change was Councilman Charles F. Teixeira, who came down from his board seat to the public microphone to make his statement. He said only a couple of driveways were declined this year, and a more important issue is people paving right-of-ways for extra parking.
In the end, the board approved a six-month moratorium on parking lot paving in right-of-ways to allow more time to study the issue.
•The board is continuing its budget work sessions next week prior to a public hearing on the 2013 budget at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30. Depending on the results of that hearing, the budget could be approved at the 6:30 p.m. regular meeting that will follow the hearing.
•A Woodland Avenue resident was nearly in tears as she delivered a petition signed by 45 neighbors asking that the town enforce Code 195, which imposes fines on landlords who have unruly tenants. She said police have been called repeatedly on problems with one tenant and she is not the only one who has lost sleep over loud parties and fireworks, but no one wants their names mentioned publicly for fear of retaliation. She and family members have been harassed and obscenities screamed at them. Problems escalate after police leave, she said.
Richards said the owner, Laura Rhoney of Niagara Falls, has been sent several letters announcing fines for violations of the code and has now contacted Town Hall about the problem. The fines now total about $17,000, he said. The next step will be for the board to meet with both sides and to have Teixeira, who is also the police commissioner, meet with the police chief to review complaint calls from the residents.
"Even if we're fining someone, they still have the right to due process," Richards said.
•The board approved several purchases of equipment for the police department that will be funded by grants obtained by Police Chief James Suitor. Purchases include 10 Pocket Jet 6 thermal printers, five Decatur Genesis II Select Dual Ka radar units and 10 L-Tron 2 D scanners. Also approved was permission for three officers to attend child passenger seat training in Atlantic City this month. Lodging and meals will be funded by a grant obtained by Suitor.
The board also approved overtime grant reimbursement rates for Suitor that will allow him to work with the U.S. Border Patrol on possible future grants.
•The board approved a tax assessment settlement reached with Verizon New York by Town Attorney Michael Risman. Verizon had filed a lawsuit challenging the assessed value of its telephone lines not located in the public right-of-way. Assessment for the 2012-13 tax year was $600,000. Verizon provided an analysis indicating it should be $400,000. The settlement would reduce the $600,000 to $533,000 for 2012-13, $467,000 for 2013-14, and $400,000 for 2014-15. According to the board resolution, this would save the town significant litigation and appraisal costs, as well as avoid the payment of potential tax refunds if a challenge by the town should fail.
•The board decided to hold November work sessions on Nov. 1 and 8 at 7 p.m. and moved the regular town board meeting to Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. to avoid holiday conflicts. The Nov. 13 meeting will begin with a public hearing on rezoning 6000 Packard Road (the old Gold Circle property) from B-1 (business) to L-1 (light industrial. Richards said Benderson Development has a tenant who wants to use the building for a warehouse.


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