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Have you ever wanted to copy all of your production Group Policy Objects (GPOs) into a lab for testing? Do you have to copy GPOs between domains or forests? Do you need to migrate them to another environment due to an acquisition, merger, or divestiture? These are common problems for many administrators.
There are VBScripts provided with the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), but that is so "last decade". (Really. They were published in 2002.) What about WMI filters, OU links, login scripts, and embedded credentials? I've drafted a PowerShell module to do this with speed and style. This post discusses the pitfalls, preparations, and scripts for a successful GPO migration.
Have you ever had to repopulate a batch of corrupted attributes or properties for a large set of Active Directory objects? (Think Exchange or Lync, for example.) The Active Directory Recycle Bin is great for recovering deleted objects, but it will not help with corrupted objects. Authoritative restore is the textbook option, but there is a better way. Yes, you can buy expensive third-party products to do this, or you can use the free features in the box for your own attribute-level recovery solution for Active Directory. This blog post will explain how.
Today's post gives you a script to crawl your file shares and document the AD users and groups referenced in NTFS permissions. I'm sure others have published similar scripts, but I want to approach it from the angle of Active Directory group cleanup. Using this output together with the script from my last post will give you plenty of insight to go after stale groups.
Finish this familiar quote, "I can't delete that group, because ______________ ." Multiple choice:
What would we do without file shares? Well, actually, we would use SharePoint or OneDrive. The truth is file shares have been around for decades, and in most cases mission critical data resides there. But who can access that data? That is the big question, and many of us cannot give a complete answer.
I have often told customers…
"Most companies clean up stale users, a few companies clean up stale computers, but no one cleans up stale groups."
"Most companies clean up stale users, a few companies clean up stale computers, but no one cleans up stale groups."
Generally it is easy enough to tell if a computer or user account is stale, but how do we do that for groups? Today's post is going to give you some reports to analyze group staleness, population, and duplication.
Tired of copying and pasting scripts from the internet? Want to write your own scripts? Become the go-to scripter on your team. This session will break down the scripting process into logical steps you can follow. Learn how to wrap cmdlets into scripts into functions into modules that you can reuse and share with your team.
Usually I like to offer deep technical content on the blog, but today I'm going to keep it simple. Everyone should be keenly aware that Windows XP support officially ends on April 8, 2014. Many companies are migrating from Windows XP and need a quick script to check their progress. This is a simple solution with a couple variations to meet your needs.
Set your watch for January 1, 1601, Marty. Today we're working with crazy dates in Active Directory PowerShell.
If you have ever tried to script out Active Directory reports that included date fields, then you have likely run into this challenge. There are "real" dates, and then "those" dates. You know… the ones that just look like a bunch of numbers. Today's post shows you how to make sense of those crazy Int64 date fields.
Give a man a script; feed him for a Get-Date. Teach a man to script; feed him for a New-TimeSpan.
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Tired of copying and pasting scripts from the internet? Want to write your own scripts? Become the go-to scripter on your team. This post will break down the scripting process into logical steps you can follow. Learn how to wrap cmdlets into scripts into functions into modules that you can reuse and share with your team.
Before we jump into today's script here are some current events:
Now for today's topic…
Maybe I haven't looked hard enough, but I've just not found any clear documentation aimed at IT Pros for what I am posting today. As an IT Pro type guy (not a .NET type guy) I have avoided XML for years. CSV and HTML are so much easier. XML seems to be a labyrinth of complexity in my mind, and it still is, at least from a PowerShell perspective. The object model is convenient, but trying to navigate it loses me. Yeah, I know XML makes the world a happy place, but I'm just not there yet.
Despite this disparaging disclaimer I believe I have drafted a script that will help many of us IT Pros as we weed through event logs (or ETL trace files or EVTX files).
The good: PowerShell works with event logs out of the box. You have two cmdlets: Get-EventLog and Get-WinEvent. Get-WinEvent is the one we're all supposed to use now.
The bad: All of a sudden reading event logs gets complicated. The filtering in particular requires some crazy syntax. We are far removed from the simplicity of DUMPEL. PowerShell team blog posts from 2009 here and here attempt to make this look routine. Um… yeah.
The ugly: All of the juicy nuggets of event data in the message body are stored in XML. And nearly every combination of event ID and provider has a unique event schema for storing the data we want. Neo's MSDN blog post gets us most of the way there. AskDS and Hey Scripting Guy show how we can use the GUI to help write the XML filter syntax. Now my head is spinning. This is the farthest point from intuitive. Don't even get me started on XPATH.
Note: In all fairness to the product this data structure is necessary. All events have a few common properties like provider, ID number, date/time, source, etc. But in order to capture the unique details of each event we needed a way to store a variable number of properties. So the design is good, just a bit complicated to script.
In the life of every scripter you will come to challenges like this. You just have to cowboy up and dive in.
The thing I've not seen in these blog posts is how to dump out the event message data in a CSV file where I can easily report and manipulate the data I need. For example, if I'm collecting logon failure event 4625, then I want the guts of the message body in separate columns where I can easily summarize and report on the user and computer accounts involved. While I can harvest event logs from multiple servers in the GUI, it is just not friendly for mass reporting, sorting and visualization like Excel. This is the problem I am trying to solve.
I would like to thank everyone who has been using the Active Directory SIDHistory PowerShell module and sending me feedback. Your input helps guide future releases like the one I am publishing today.
I've been sitting on some updates for a while, because I prefer to release code that has been field-tested. I also wanted to time this release with the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book where I have a chapter discussing the origins of this module. The last update was version 1.4 in June of 2012. This is update 1.5 in July of 2013.
Summary of Changes
I am excited to announce the following key improvements in this release:
Today we have several domain controller operating systems that support the Active Directory module cmdlets. Clients on Windows 7 and 8 can install the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) to script with the Active Directory module against these DCs.
With all of these versions now the first question that comes to mind is compatibility.
The Windows Server 2012 Active Directory PowerShell module has some handy new cmdlets. However, many IT shops struggle to stay current on the latest operating system releases due to a variety of issues (budget, resources, compatibility, etc.). They desperately want to use the latest features, but their deployment standards have not caught up yet. This leaves them with workable, but sometimes inefficient, tools from previous releases.
Today's article will show you how to use the latest Windows Server PowerShell modules in a legacy Windows 7 environment. As a bonus we'll explore compatibility of the AD cmdlets across the different operating systems.
Get-GPOReport from the Group Policy PowerShell module can report all GPOs, but it can be a bit overwhelming. What if you want a simple spreadsheet listing of the same information? This script gives you a thorough CSV report of all GPO links, where enforced, where blocked, and more. If you support group policy, then this script is guaranteed to please.
Do you schedule DCPROMO activities for the weekend? After hours? Middle of the night? I remember those days. Often it was hard to get in the right frame of mind to think through all of the exact procedural steps during those late night change controls.
Today's post will show you how to easily promote and demote a Windows Server 2012 domain controller remotely with a script. You don't even need to logon to the target server.
Generally change controls have three plans:
You have all three of these scripts for DCPROMO in today's post.
In Active Directory we need to know who has the keys to our organizational units (OUs), the place where our users and computers live. Over the years OUs have grown to meet needs. Different teams may have been delegated access for managing users, groups, and computers. Then you come along as the new administrator. You probably have no idea where permissions have been granted to your OUs. And the scary thing is… neither does anyone else. I know, because I've been there. I hear the same thing from our customers.
Out-of-the-box we do not have a specific tool to report all of the OU permissions. You have to click each OU and view the security tab one-by-one, and we all know that is entirely impractical. Today's post contains a free script download to generate a report of this vital information.
I would advise all Active Directory shops to review this report on a quarterly basis to make sure there are no surprise administrators lurking in your domain.
Even Spiderman would envy this web action. Today we're going to walk through setting up a portable PowerShell v3 Web Access demo. Using this demo guide you can explore PowerShell from any web-capable device: your phone, your tablet, or your Raspberry Pi. The links in this post will guide you to all of the key documentation to build your own PowerShell Web Access lab.
Departing from the usual scripting today's post is a reflection on 2012 and a look ahead at goals for 2013. The overall theme today is the Heroes To Mentors vision we have embraced within Microsoft PFE.
Hi folks. It's your friendly, neighborhood PFE again. In order to avoid the long lines to buy a treadmill the first week of January I thought I would save you some time and give you an easier New Years Resolution… Learn PowerShell.
For years many of us have relied on trusty command line utilities like PING, IPCONFIG, and REPADMIN. Some of us are still hanging on to those instead of embracing the brave new world of PowerShell.
In an effort to assist with the transition and to introduce some of the cool new cmdlets in PowerShell v3 I have created a free reference guide showing how the old meets the new. For example, instead of PING try the PowerShell cmdlet Test-Connection, instead of NSLOOKUP use Resolve-DNSName, instead of GPUPDATE use Invoke-GPUpdate.
The guide attached at the bottom of this blog post contains four packed pages of PowerShell pleasure for your perusing.
TIP: Anyone who wants to write scripts for Active Directory will eventually run into the famous userAccountControl attribute. The good news is that in PowerShell we have two cmdlets that make this easy: Set-ADAccountControl and Search-ADAccount.
Back in May I released a post on the Hey Scripting Guy blog showing how to create a shortcut to unlock a user account with a PowerShell desktop shortcut. That post was very popular, and the comments evolved into another shortcut to reset passwords. Due to the popularity and utility of the idea I decided it deserved its own blog post. I've also learned a little more about the Set-ADAccountPassword cmdlet to simplify my previous code.
You know the drill. It's Monday morning. Last Friday 47 users decided it was a good idea to change their password before the weekend. It's Monday. They forgot, just like I would. Personally I never change my password on a Friday for this reason. I need a couple days to use it before the weekend.
What could make this worse? Holiday weekends… like US Thanksgiving. (grin) Now it's been at least five days since I reset that password. There's no chance I'll remember it unless it's written down on that sticky note under the mouse pad.
Now all 47 of those users must call the helpdesk first thing Monday before they can begin another week of productivity for the company. The self-service password project has not gotten enough budget or resources for implementation, and until it does every Monday morning is going to look very familiar. That's where we come in with PowerShell.
Today I have the privilege of speaking at DogfoodCon 2012 in Columbus, Ohio. My topic is "Active Directory PowerShell Step-By-Step". This post includes a download of the slide deck and demo scripts for the session.
After speaking about SID history and token size at PowerShell Saturday last month an attendee approached me with a common concern. I was so excited to code the answer that I did it in the airport on the way home.
Joe User has been with the company for 23 years and has accumulated more group memberships than the entire desktop support team. Joe has rotated through five different departments during his career and managed to survive all of the layoffs. As a result he has access to every share in the company. Even worse his access token is so big that it won't fit through the door.
We would love to clean up his group memberships, but we have no way of knowing when he was added to all these groups. If we could see the dates he joined those groups it would give us a clue about removing just the older group memberships. Without this information his token will continue to bloat.
Time for some AD PowerShell v3 goodness!
PS - I'm also going to give you a handy chart showing PowerShell equivalents for REPADMIN in AD PowerShell v3.


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DENVER – Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced the arrests of Young Jo Kwon (DOB 11/07/1964) and his wife, Jessie Kwon (DOB 12/05/1966), in connection with charges of indentured servitude at their Denver sushi restaurant. The couple was charged with five counts of theft and forgery.
DENVER – Colorado Attorney General John Suthers today announced that he and 49 other Attorneys General have reached an agreement to better protect children online with the popular social networking site Facebook. Facebook, based in Palo Alto, California, has agreed to make changes to its site that will better protect children from predators and inappropriate content. The company will also join a task force with MySpace to study age and identity verification software.
DENVER – Colorado Attorney General John Suthers today announced that his office has filed a temporary restraining order and injunction against four West Slope oil companies for failing to control construction runoff in waterways near Parachute, Colorado.
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If you read about or dine in Philadelphia at all, it's pretty hard to miss the raves about Barbuzzo's Salted Caramel Budino.
Those who have had it, dream about it. Those who have not, salivate thinking about it.
For Valentine's Day, the 13th street eatery offers the desserts, served in squat mason jars, to-go from a pop-up fridge in the gift shop next door.
Now until the end of August, Barbuzzo has another way for die-hards to enjoy their favorite treat, sans spoon.
Chef Marcie Turney is offering a limited run of Budino Frozen Pops, a summertime take on her award-winning dessert at the Marcie Blaine Chocolate counter inside Verde at 108 S. 13th St.
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Each week, Press-Gazette Media will recognize outstanding prep basketball achievements with the American Family Insurance all-Press-Gazette Media performances of the week. Here are the selections for the week of Feb. 11 to Feb. 16.
Boys basketball performance of the week
West De Pere junior Chandler Diekvoss scored 12 of his 16 points in the second half of the Phantoms' 60-51 win against Seymour on Feb. 15. The 6-foot-5 guard hit both of his 3-pointers late in the third quarter to give West De Pere the lead for good in clinching its first Bay Conference title since 1986.
Girls basketball performance of the week
Oconto Falls junior McKenna Larsen tallied a game-high 22 points to surpass 1,000 career points in a 58-39 victory at Shawano on Feb. 12.
Honorable mention boys performances
Crandon junior Kory Kincaid scored a game-high 24 points in a 68-34 victory against Elcho to reach 1,000 career points on Feb. 11.
Ashwaubenon senior Bennett Koch tallied 22 points and nine rebounds in a 58-57 victory against Bay Port on Feb. 12.
Bay Port senior Steven Minzlaff recorded 16 points and 12 rebounds to power the Pirates to a 50-45 victory against Pulaski on Feb. 15.
Green Bay Southwest senior Aaron Moesch scored 16 points to surpass 1,000 career points in addition to pulling down 18 rebounds in a 64-50 victory against Green Bay West on Feb. 14.
Honorable mention girls performances
Bay Port senior Chelsea Nooker posted18 points, five assists, four steals and two rebounds in a win against Green Bay East on Feb. 14.
Kewaunee senior Alex Richard scored a game-high 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a 51-47 victory against Green Bay Notre Dame on Feb. 12.
Oconto sophomore Emily Shallow made a game-tying 3-pointer with 20 seconds remaining in a 52-51 win over Green Bay Southwest on Feb. 16. It was the 5-foot-4 guard's third trey of the game.
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Crafting skills include:
Gathering Skills
Ability to gather all types of ore to be used for production.
Ability to gather all types of wood to be used for production.
Ability to gather all types of herbs to be used for production.
Gathering as Crafting Skills
Please also see our Gathering Guide for information on gathering resources throughout Taborea.
Crafting skills include gathering skills such as mining, woodcutting and herbalism, and production skills such as blacksmithing, carpentry, armor crafting, tailoring, cooking and alchemy.
Every type of crafting skill has 5 tiers of availability:
- Level 1-20 Apprentice
- Level 20-40 Craftsman
- Level 40-60 Expert
- Level 60-80 Master
- Level 80-100 Legend
For each crafting skill, the more experience you have using it, the more your skill level will increase. However, once you hit the upper skill level limit for your tier, you will not be able to continue increasing levels in this way. Instead, you must first be promoted to the next tier by passing a special test.
Basically, you will be able to reach the apprentice tier for every skill. However, only 2 gathering and 4 production
skills can be raised to the craftsman tier, only 1 gathering and 2 production
skills can be raised to the expert tier and only 1 gathering and 1 production
skill may be raised to the master and then to the legend tier. The gathering and production
skills have now separate upgrade paths.
If you have maxed out the number of gathering skills you can have at a given ability tier (craftsman tier is limited to 2 gathering skills, the expert tier is limited to 1 gathering skills, and the master and legend tiers are limited as well to 1 gathering skill), but you would like to promote another gathering skill to that tier, you must first demote one of your current gathering skills.
For example, if your mining and woodcutting skills have reached the craftsman tier (or above), but you would now like to raise your herbalism skill to the craftsman tier, you must first demote either mining or woodcutting to the apprentice tier. Only then can you raise your herbalism skill to the craftsman tier.
Once you have demoted a skill's tier, that skill's level will drop to the upper limit of its new tier level. In other words, if you demote a skill from the craftsman tier to the apprentice tier, that skill's level will drop to level 20. This means that if you want to raise that skill to the craftsman level again in the future, you will need to start training it from level 20 once more.
Old Gatherer and Patch 6.0.1 Issues
The above limitations apply as is for characters who had not crossed the new patch 6.0.1's limitations before it was released. As far as it's known now, older gatherers who have already had mastered more than two craftsman tier or above, or more than one expert tier or above gathering skills, (at least without having a dubious Heffner camp setup,) should be able to keep the skills which they were focusing on, and may upgrade one gathering skill to master tier and then to legend tier as well (they may have no more than one gathering skill at or above master level in any case). Your mileage may vary regarding various old characters' skill setups, but older characters' current gathering expertize should not be damaged by this change, or fall beyond that of those who had not trained their gathering skills to the higher tiers.
However, by information posted by YomanROM and Yrcanos, if you had crossed those limitations it would limit your advance in production skills as well, as your overall crafting skills at or above a specific tier will be additionally checked toward the currently allowed sum of such, and your advance will be capped according to both types of limitations together.
In essence, no newly created violation to the post 6.0.1 patch rule set will be possible and this beside a further cross skills current overall limitation. No achieved levels will be lost, as of now, unless one chooses to drop a level or more to re-enable advance.
- A reference link to YomanRom's comprehensive explanation on current production and gathering skills limitations, made on US RoM forums: [A Post by YomanROM]
This note could be concluded after Yrcanos made a very informative clarification post in Eu RoM forum. A link may be added later if it's allowed.


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While enjoying a perfect fall day downtown, we went inside a Macy's Holiday Store filled top to bottom with Christmas decorations. Almost trance-like, forgetting it's not yet Halloween, I went in search of a pink Sydney Ornament. I lost my baby girl at 6 months and 1 day to Scimitar Syndrome and other complications. This fall I decided each year I will select a pink Christmas ornament in memory of Sydney to place on our tree. This year I selected a pair of pink toe shoes, as one of my dreams for Sydney included ballet classes.
But maybe if Sydney would have lived, I would have bought a pink heart ornament instead. A heart ornament for each year of life following her open heart surgery. We would have filled our Christmas tree with many, many hearts throughout the years.
I thought I would pass along this idea for those that have lost children, a way to have their presence at Christmas. This is also a great idea to celebrate the children that have survived, to celebrate their resilience and bravery.
Aren't the best ornaments the ones with special meaning? I have a collection of "stolen" ornaments from my mother's tree, ornaments made by her hands, and those are my favorite. Each year she makes a fresh batch of ornaments, and then pretends not to look as I sneak one off her tree then later hang on mine. I have collected dozens! One day my children, Sydney's legacies, will have some "Sydney Ornaments" from our tree on their tree. They will know their big sister.
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• Authorities will be checking the suspect's online activities for clues, because mothers who kill their kids usually fit a pattern and this case didn't.
TAMPA, Fla. — A central Florida woman accused of shooting her two teen children earlier this year for talking back had a court hearing scheduled for today.
Julie Schenecker, the wife of an Army colonel, shot her 13-year-old son to death on the way to soccer practice and later her 16-year-old daughter as she studied in her room because she was fed up with them talking back and being "mouthy," police said. Schenecker, 50, was discovered on her back porch, covered in blood.
Authorities have been perplexed over exactly what led to the killings, and recently got a search warrant to seize five computers in the home so they can scrutinize Schenecker's online activity.
"It is very puzzling. You might expect a parent to lose control and smack the kids, not come up from behind with a gun," said Dr. Phillip J. Resnick, a professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University of Medicine in Cleveland who has researched homicidal mothers for decades.
Mothers who kill their children usually fit a pattern, such as unwanted kids, revenge on a spouse, the children are already severely abused or the mother believes they are suffering a "fate worse than death" while alive. The Schenecker case doesn't fit any of those patterns, Resnick said.
"There is something else going on that we don't know about," Resnick said. "On its face it just doesn't compute."
By most accounts, the family seemed like overacheivers.
Parker, the father, is an Army colonel. Julie, the mother, is a former Army Russian linguist and college volleyball star. Calyx, the 16-year-old daughter was tall, gorgeous and had a talent for art and a love of Harry Potter. Beau was a 13-year-old soccer standout.
"By all appearances, it was an all-American family," said Eric Storey, a college classmate of Parker Schenecker.
Today, lawyers and a judge will gather in a Tampa courtroom to discuss Schenecker's first-degree murder case. Schenecker will not be there. Her attorney has filed a motion to waive her presence.
Parker Schenecker has filed for divorce from his wife — who has asked a judge to freeze the couple's assets. Depending on how the judge rules, it could mean Parker Schenecker would be forced to pay for his wife's criminal defense.
"After his children's tragic death, Col. Schenecker could not imagine that there was anything else (Julie Schenecker) could take from him," wrote Alexander Caballero, Parker Schenecker's lawyer, in a court paper. "It appears to be an attempt to compel Col. Schenecker — who had only intended to participate in these proceedings to give a voice to his children, the victims — to fund the defense."
How did it come to this for the Schenecker family?
"Parker's holding up much better than I would have," Storey said. "He's dealing with forgiveness, taking blame on himself that he didn't realize how fragile (Julie's) psyche was."
Schenecker joined the military and became a Russian lingust. While stationed in Germany she met and married Parker Schenecker in the late 1980s. In an online military bulletin board, Schenecker wrote that the family spent 10 years there. Calyx was born in Germany.
Like many military families, the Scheneckers moved often. Beau was born in Hawaii, and the family also lived in Arizona and Virginia. Julie left the military, but Parker didn't.
In 2008, they moved to Tampa, because of Parker's assignment with U.S. Central Command located at MacDill Air Force Base and runs the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It's unclear whether Julie Schenecker was feeling lonely or depressed after moving to Tampa, where the family had few friends. If she was, she hid it well, neighbors and those who met her said.
By late 2010, there were cracks in the family's perfect veneer. On Nov. 8, Calyx called police, telling officers her mother hit her as she drove home in the family car, according to a Department of Children and Families report. Julie Schenecker was in the passenger seat. The report said Calyx had been in counseling because of verbal abuse directed at her mother.
Officers didn't observe any marks or bruises on the teen, and closed the case without charges.
Parker Schenecker told investigators it was the first time his wife had ever hit one of the children. Records from the state agency also show that Julie Schenecker and her daughter were in counseling.
In January, Parker Schenecker was sent on assignment to the Middle East. Around Jan. 22, Julie Schenecker bought a .38-caliber handgun, records show. On Jan. 28, she emailed her mother to tell her she was depressed. The email was so disturbing that Julie Schenecker's mother called police and asked them to check on her daughter and grandchildren.
That's when officers found Julie Schenecker, half-conscious and covered in blood. Beau was in the garage and Calyx was in her bed — both teens were covered with blankets. Officers say she confessed, saying she shot them both in the head for being "mouthy."
Detectives found a manual for the gun and a spiral notebook in Julie Schenecker's bedroom. A detective wrote that inside, it "documented in detail how she planned and followed through with the murder of her children."


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Archive for Thursday, May 24, 2007
Council passes new burn ordinance
If one plans to burn a pile of leaves or create a campfire in their backyard, getting city permission just became easier.
The Eudora City Council voted May 14 to adopt a new burn ordinance at the request of Eudora City Fire Chief Randy Ates.
Ates pointed to flaws within the old ordinance. The old system required a resident to get a permit for a certain day, to be inspected by the city. Because of that, if the chief were on a call or out of town on business, the resident would be out of luck, Ates said.
The new system will allow a person to come to City Hall to get a permit and it will be good for seven days, Ates said.
The seven-day permit will be especially handy to residents who have to postpone burns because of weather, Ates said.
"I think this will make it easier for our citizens to have access to permits," Ates said. "It will answer some questions."
One recurring question includes the city's policy on campfires, Ates said.
In the past, residents had to take out a permit for each fire.
The new ordinance allows residents to conduct campfires on their property without a permit as long as a city enforcement official first inspects it, Ates said.
"Hopefully this will make the lives of our residents a little bit easier," Ates said.
Under the ordinance, citizens can burn organic materials, untreated wood and yard waste with a written permit, but the city strictly prohibits the burning of other materials including trash or debris.
The property owner can obtain the permits from Eudora City Hall, 4 East Seventh St., during normal business hours. Permits are $2 to conduct a burn on a property greater or equal to one acre and $5 for lots greater than an acre.
"This new burn ordinance clearly defines some of the things that weren't defined in the previous code," Eudora City Administrator Cheryl Beatty said. "In addition to that, it includes a permit fee that at least covers the cost of the form and time. We tried to keep the fee at a very nominal fee just because we want to encourage people to get the permit properly."
The new ordinance also defined restrictions for burns.
Burning will not be allowed in the streets and alleyways or near utility lines. Residents are required to have a water hose nearby connected to a steady water supply and are required to have the burn no less than 25 feet away from a structure.
A full transcript of the ordinance can be found at city hall or in the May 17 issue of The Eudora News.
"I think it will be a great improvement for the city. I'm glad to see it happen," Eudora Mayor Tom Pyle said.
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Rev. Bernice King speaks during a tribute to her father during the 2008 Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (Gannett News Service, Sam Riche/The Indianapolis Star)
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The Rev. Bernice King, the youngest of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s four children, was born exactly five months before her father's "I Have a Dream" speech. She was 5 when he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, and the iconic photographs of her and her siblings at the funeral in Atlanta came to symbolize a searing moment.
The Dreamer had been snatched away before black America reached the mountaintop he had visited, but his children were still here. So we claimed them, figuratively taking them in our arms and holding on tight, their very presence somehow lessening the loss of all that was and ...


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Find love this Valentine's day by following The New Rules
Posted by Zoe Goodkin in Book Extracts, News, Non-Fiction, Recommended Reading
Are you off on a date with your Valentine tonight? If you want it to go well, follow these two crucial pieces of advice from The New Rules:
1. Don't get wasted on dates or at parties, so you don't say or do anything you'll regret
Alcohol takes away inhibitions and gets a conversation going. We get it. We think it's great if you can have a drink or two and act Rules-y. But if you can't drink without embarrassing yourself and/or starting a fight with a guy, then drinking may not be for you.
Heavy drinking and dating do not mix. When you are under the influence of alcohol, you end up making bad decisions you wouldn't make otherwise, like saying yes to booty calls, ex-boyfriends, and even married men. You might sleep with a guy you just met because the part of your brain that says 'This is not a good idea' doesn't work when you have had too much to drink. We have spoken to dozens of women who have said that alcohol has ruined their dating lives. Obviously, it is almost impossible to do The Rules when your boundaries become blurry or non-existent. Instead of keeping the date light and breezy, you are spilling your guts because you are intoxicated. Instead of talking about work or films on the first date, you are leaning over to kiss a guy and telling him you really like him. When you are drinking too much, you definitely forget to look at your watch and nonchalantly end the date first after two hours. After too many glasses of wine on your first or second date, you may have told him your whole life story, including why your ex-boyfriend dumped you. There's nothing worse than the feeling when you sober up hours later and can't believe what you said – or did! Girls who get embarrassingly drunk don't usually hear from guys again, except for 2 a.m. booty calls, even if it was their first time acting that way. A guy will assume that what you do with him, you do with everyone else. We polled guys of all ages and they all said that girls who get drunk are a big turnoff.
We understand that you want to let loose and have fun, but there is nothing fun about blacking out and hooking up. If you can't drink like a lady, then order a tonic or sparkling water. If you can't drink and do The Rules, then don't drink at all!
2. Don't pay for dinner or buy his love in any way
Women who do too much or give too much in relationships are the subject of entire self-help books. We will save you the trouble of reading them by telling you that if you have to do more than agree to go on dates for a guy to like you, then you are doing too much!
It's desperate and not The Rules to meet him halfway for a date, pay for dinner, take him on vacation, or buy his love in any way. Buying him gifts and splitting the cost of trips are both 'nice' ways women try to ingratiate themselves with men, but it just won't make a guy love them! Women who overdo it are spoiling guys, but we know that guys really desire women who don't try hard at all. Worse, though, it's manipulative – you are trying to make it easy for him to be with you. A Rules Girl doesn't have to give a guy a reason to be with her by 'roping him in' with her credit card. She is the reason!
When you give too much in the beginning of a relationship, a guy will sense it and lose interest. It is another way in which you become the pursuer and it becomes obvious that you like him. In addition, guys have pride and don't want to be supported, even if they initially go along with a woman's generosity.
It's no secret that some women today are out-earning the men they are dating. Some of these women think nothing of using their money and influence to keep a guy interested. Not a good idea! The only way to know if he really likes you is to give him nothing.
Nothing means not paying for things or doing him favours. If the guy you are dating says he doesn't have the money to take you out for nice dinners, say, 'That's okay!' He can take you somewhere inexpensive or come up with another creative idea. Do not respond by offering to pay. If he asks to borrow money so he can do nice things for you, just tell him you don't have it.
If you have been dating exclusively for long time, you can pay for little things here and there. For example, if your boyfriend is taking you to dinner and the theatre, you can buy him drinks or take him somewhere nice for dessert. If he is ill, you can bring him chicken soup in bed and bring him a variety of cold medicines. But for regular Saturday night dinner dates, he should be picking up the tab.
Remember: a Rules Girl doesn't have to buy a guy's love or attention. If you are doing more than going on dates and being a Creature Unlike Any Other, then you are doing too much!
The New Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider is available in paperback and as an e-book from all good booksellers now. Find out more here or join the conversation online using #TheNEWRules.
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Monday is a work day for a lot of folks but it's also a day to appreciate the natural environment we live in and take some time to think about what we, as humans, can do to preserve it for future generations.
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Oppo N1 is official with 5.9-inch fullHD display and Color OS
- dencio
i want to buy this oppo n1 5.9 inch, can you help me where i can buy this phone in philippines..
- 2014-10-28 07:03
- 7Xqa
- Faktorek
No micro sd card slot - no thank you. Record a video or two. Put a movie onto it, download a game and you are out of space. 64gig card 45MBps writes and 90MBps reads is like 50$. Phone with no slot is jebanym gównem.
- 2014-09-04 09:13
- pmNa
- maddy oppo
> In reply to xavi3r @ 2013-09-24 00:23 from srre - click to read5.9inches gr8 for gaming n videos
- 2013-12-30 06:29
- vGUg
- Anonymous
This cam can allow you to walk without raising your head to see what is in front of you. It is a great idea. Don' t over look it.
- 2013-09-25 04:44
- M92t
- Anonymous
Nothing to be innovated with camera
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- vGa6
No SD Slot no sale!
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- spock
> In reply to wut? @ 2013-09-24 06:02 from PB1v - click to readWell,n series of nokia included only smartphones,n90 was a smartphone,so yes oppo is not the one to implement it first even on a smartphone......
- 2013-09-24 10:21
- 7qx4
- wut?
my God! people posting links on who did the first rotating camera on a phone... yea we know that there was a rotating camera back then but is it on a smartphone?? does samsung have that on their galaxy series? does nokia have that on a lumia series?? give oppo a credit for implementing that on a smartphone...
- 2013-09-24 06:02
- PB1v
- pikoko2k3c
now everyone's copying nokia's super sensitive screen and also the 6-element lens..
- 2013-09-24 02:43
- RxVs
- Anonymous
> In reply to 24area24 @ 2013-09-23 20:28 from 3u6x - click to readthe chassis is metal
- 2013-09-24 02:25
- NB0j
Wow This phone looks so crazy I wana buy it...
- 2013-09-24 00:52
- 49xp
- xavi3r
has anybody noticed the size of this thing :D
- 2013-09-24 00:23
- srre
- Anonymous
CyanogenMod is not 'Pure Android'.
- 2013-09-24 00:04
- zahid
Using find 5 since May. The best phone in low price.. and now definitely will be buying this though its quite big..The colour ROM is improving day by day, the oppo team is very responsive best of luck and indeed its good start..
- 2013-09-23 23:46
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- brynn
Well done on actually doing some design for once.Its about time something different designs emerged instead of boring slabs..At least they are trying something different even though twisty cam was in my Moto A830.
- 2013-09-23 23:03
- nEU9
- Anonymous
> In reply to Giddorah @ 2013-09-23 14:47 from mvDI - click to readIt seems that, you dont have general knowledge as well as common sense!!
- 2013-09-23 20:53
- tUwV
- 24area24
"en.oppo.com" says:
"The full metal aluminum alloy frame is produced over a 20-day period."
"Color: White"
You say:
"The whole phone is made of plastic and will be available in two color options - black and white."
Please correct.
- 2013-09-23 20:28
- 3u6x
- subir
it is very nice handset and best strong point is camera
- 2013-09-23 20:22
- Mf5j
- Markus Leto
Nice. But no way it's going to beat The Nokia Lumia 1020. Oh well, way to go Oppo. That's innovation right there. More surprises here than even the rehash of the iPhone 5, the LG G2, and the Note 3. What now Huawei?
- 2013-09-23 20:00
- PPgT
- Titooo
I was thinking about buying one to replace my Note 2 but I finally don't think I will for the following reasons:
1-It's even bigger than Galaxy Mega (that's too big in my opinion).
2-I don't think it can be called cheap if the price of $571 is for the 16GB version and it doesn't have microsd card and removable battery.
- 2013-09-23 18:59
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
During the presidential debate Oct. 3, Mitt Romney stated that for those Americans who've lost or never had health-care insurance, there was always the "emergency room" option.
Emergency rooms are meant for emergency situations. They struggle in the best of times to even do that. They are not for obtaining necessary preventative medical attention that quality and affordable health care should provide for all.
In suggesting those with no health care can count on their local ER to provide for them, what he really meant is: "If you don't have health care and don't want to die alone, go to your local emergency room."
This is not a slam at the ER scenario as designed, nor the hard working ER employees, it's a clarification of how out-of-touch and what a spin-master Mitt is.
Mitt told 70 million viewers his "plan" would include coverage for those with pre-existing health conditions. He was Romney-lying. His aides retracted his comment the following day when 70 million viewers were not watching.
His plan would provide "continuing" coverage only for those with pre-existing conditions already on existing insurance. Getting people on to or back on to insurance is one of many necessary steps we must take if we hope to reduce long term medical costs via regular preventive medical care throughout everyone's lifetime.
If you are politically ultra-conservative and no longer feel it your duty to help establish and help maintain care for others, i.e. "I've got mine and I don't care about you," and you have children and grandchildren, then you are selfishly loading on their shoulders the task of reining in the cost of health care in the future.
If your soul is more interested in tit for tat -- "I paid for this-and-that and now I've done enough so leave me alone" -- you have no appreciation for how in the wink of an eye fate can change anything for any one of us, and that means you, too.
Life has no guarantees, especially when it comes to one's own health and one's own finances regardless of how well prepared one thinks one is. Citizens write in looking down their noses at others insinuating or outright suggesting, "I did everything right, why should I pay for others?"
Each time they share this short sighted viewpoint I am reminded of the classic, "but for the grace of god there go I," and again that includes you too.
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Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic is to leave the English Premier League champions at the end of the season. The Serbian defender announced, "I have decided that I will move on at the end of this season."The warrior who arrived from Spartak Moscow for £7million in January 2006 said, "It's the last year of my contract and I have had eight wonderful years here."
During the peak years of his career Nemanja Vidic was one of the best in the world. He was an absolute rock at the defence having played in every game when Edwin van der Sar set the world record of 1,311 minutes without conceding a goal in the 2008–09 season. Massive.
In his time at Old Trafford, Vidic won 15 trophies which of them are 5 EPL titles, 2 League Cups, 1 Champions League and 1 Club World Cup. Football fans of the English Premier League are lucky to have witnessed a defender of such quality all these. He shows no mercy.
And now, as he's set to leave the English Premier League let's not entertain the haunting thought any longer. Let's instead make it weird and have a look at the movie characters who The Serbinator can definitely play:
John Rambo from Rambo
The moral of the Rambo movies is that even though war psychologically damages a soldier, he can still be a total badass about it. It's a way of life so deal with it. Nemanja Vidic is one strong believer of this. He often "goes Rambo" on the field. He shows each striker that he encounters in battles where they actually belong, guerilla warfare style.
Bryan Mills from Taken
Let's just imagine that Vidic was out to reclaim the English Premier League Trophy that was stolen from his clutches. He'd say, "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for an agreement, I can tell you I don't have patience. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let the cup go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." Chills.
Maximus Decimus Meridius from Gladiator
A fight to the death is a curious thing. But we all know that the Serb always gave his all on the field and was made the commander of the Manchester United army. Vidic fought for his life everyday against the strikers and murdered his way to the top. Also, Vidic would totally take on Bengal tigers with his bare hands in an arena.
Frank Dux from Bloodsport
There's nothing like a good martial arts movie. Add to that a defender from Serbia who's round housing his opponents to the core in the ways of Ninjutsu. Using his skills, he would work his way to the top to defeat a fighter who has prolonged his stay as the champion.
The Terminator
Being The Terminator is an obvious choice as Vidic is a badass right down to his robot bones. The defender is a robotic killing machine who is programmed to make your life hell. Mission accomplished.
Neville Flynn from Snakes On A Plane
The Serb is also known to lose his cool when he's had a bad day at the office. His crazy lunging skills prove detrimental to his side's fortunes on that day but who cares? He goes bonkers against his opponents. So which better movie to go bonkers in than Snakes On A Plane?
Tyler Durden from Fight Club
Just imagine the Man Utd captain assembling his players, staring into their eyes and saying: "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else." What's not to love about this?
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A reader sent me an update in the email of a story we covered several weeks ago, concerning an attempt in the Kentucky Legislature to reduce penalties on "lesser" drug offenses. We are glad to report that the bill – HB 463 – has passed and been signed by the governor.
Under the new law, marijuana possession is no longer an arrestable offense.
As reported in the blog, 'Marion County Line', "Possession of marijuana will remain a misdemeanor but police will no longer arrest people for misdemeanors unless they also have a weapon, are physically threatening, driving drunk, or having sex."
Great news for those in Kentucky – which includes your humble blogger. States across the country are beginning to see how wasteful and useless marijuana possession arrests are. Progress is a good thing, no matter what state it happens in. But this kind of progress in a "Red State" like Kentucky is especially heartening to those who feel progress may never reach them.