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In early May the racing world lost one of its legendary characters and great minds when Henry "Smokey" Yunick died at age 77 at his home in Daytona Beach, Florida. Known for his trademark corncob pipe and what looked like a chopped, 10-gallon cowboy hat, Smokey was usually found at the track decked out in working whites with the logo of his garage on the back. That "Best Damn Garage in Town" motto caused considerable consternation in the '50s for using "rough" language. Born in Tennessee, Smokey was an Air Force bomber pilot in World War II.
It is believed he got his nickname from his motorcycle's smoking engine. Inducted into the first-ever class of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1990, Smokey's penchant for bending the rules often kept him at odds with NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. However, that didn't stop NASCAR from crowning him Mechanic of the Year twice in his long career. The noted rules-bender said he'd never do something illegal, but if it wasn't in the rulebook, it was fair game. When early NASCAR rules banned porting and polishing the cylinder heads, Smokey figured out that it was not illegal to paint them until they were smooth. Another example was the ban on bellypans designed to smooth out the air flowing under the car. Smokey's famous '66 Chevelle had the stock floorpans flattened and smoothed out to act as bellypans; that was until the rules were changed to stipulate not doing precisely that.
Smokey did just about everything but drive the cars he worked on. He was an engine builder, crew chief, chief mechanic, and owner. He was quickly noticed as the engine builder of one of the famous Hudson Hornets. Working with almost all the brands used in NASCAR, he helped develop not only Chevy with its small-block, which was introduced in 1955, but Pontiac as well with its 287ci Strato Streak, released the following year. When the small-block Chevy came out, Smokey was quick to use it successfully for racing, having only to "blueprint" the engine's parts.
Smokey is often credited with coming up with the idea of angle plug heads, stressing their value long before Chevy provided the modification. The success of the NASCAR Buick V-6 used in Busch Grand National racing is also often credited to Smokey, who helped to do a total redesign on the powerplant. Not only did he bring Chevy back into NASCAR in 1967, he brought Curtis Turner as the driver. Turner was banned by NASCAR for trying to start a driver's union, but won the pole with Smokey's Chevelle.
Smokey owned and built cars for both the Indy 500 and NASCAR circuits (including a 1960 win at Indy with Jim Ratham driving and wins at NASCAR's Daytona 500) with some of best drivers in the history books. Curtis Turner, Mario Andretti, Junior Johnson, A.J. Foyt, and others drove Smokey' s cars, which were often painted his familiar gold and black with a simple No.22 or No.13. It was Fireball Roberts who shared a record with Smokey for having the fastest car from 1959 to 1962 (minus just one race). One of his Indy cars resembled a motorcycle with a side car which used a pod-like device on the left for the driver to sit in. Engineer extraordinare, tuner, and car builder Smokey Yunick quickly became a living legend. His no-nonsense attitude was a breath of fresh air for some and a frustration for competitors. But regardless of the legacy he left, there's no one to contest that the motorsports world was better off with machines coming out of that Best Damn Garage in Town.
One of the best Smokey Yunick stories involves this very car. Smokey always said it was a great tale, just not true, yet we still have to wonder. While going through inspection, NASCAR officials took the fuel cell out of the car for its usual look over. Upon finishing the inspection, the officials told him 10 things wrong with the car. Smokey was upset and already knew they weren't going to let him race the car. He reportedly threw the disconnected fuel cell into the back seat and climbed into the car. He then said, "Make it 11," and fired the Chevy up and drove back to his shop with the fuel cell disconnected. That's just how it was with Smokey; the only thing you knew for certain was that his cars would consistently run up front.
Smokey's Chevelle
NASCAR Grand National racing was dominated by Ford and Mopar in the mid-'60s. Chevrolet, along with its GM brethren, was still sitting out a "No Racing" GM policy edict, which was initiated in 1963. With only the two brands racing in NASCAR competition, things got boring. Smokey changed all that with his infamous Chevelle. The car came from nowhere to take the pole for the '67 Daytona 500 with none other than Curtis Turner driving. The car scared the factory-backed competition by running so strong for the pole but succumbed to engine woes during the race. Shortly after, it crashed at Atlanta and was totaled.
But Smokey had a second Chevelle which he brought out the following year. The political climate had changed by then, and NASCAR didn't want the little Chevy on the track for their big race. With only limited time for second-round qualifying, Smokey was given a list of items to change before his car could make a time lap. One of those things was the frame. Smokey took the car back to his garage and eventually sold it.
Years later, Smokey found the car and restored it. Its reputation preceded it, and when the restored car went to the speedway for these photos, NASCAR still didn't want the car on the track; the reputation of the famous Smokey Chevelle was that strong.
What made this car so magical was the man who created it. This car (and its predecessor) was the culmination of every trick Smokey could think up. The two Chevelles have about as many conspiracy theories as the JFK assassination. Some complained that the cars were 7/8 scale. Some claimed the engines were the aluminum big-blocks used in Can Am racing. Some suggested NASCAR told Smokey to build a Chevy that would win the pole to sell more tickets for the race. The wildest one we've heard was that Smokey also built a street version of the car, which was parked in the NASCAR garage parking lot, and when the inspection team didn't have Chevelle templates, they used the one in the parking lot to create a set.
As with any great race car, it's the details that make it better than the competition, details that are now commonplace in NASCAR. Notice how close the bumpers are to the fenders, keeping them out of the air for better aerodynamics. It's the result of narrowed bumpers which were changed and enlarged to modify the original angle of the face. Notice the small spoiler-like lip on the end of the roof. This was the car that employed the infamous floorpan trick mentioned earlier. All glass was painstakingly fitted to the car, all openings in the bumper (for turn signals and such) were covered, and all wheel opening were kept to a minimum so as not to catch the air and cause drag.
This was during the days when NASCAR engines were allowed to run bigger cubic inches. The big-block Chevy started life as a 427 Rat but is rumored to have been stroked to 416 by Smokey so it would rev higher. One single four-barrel gets plenty of air from the cowl vents and an insulated, two-inlet air box. The sheet aluminum heat deflectors above the headers were another Smokey-original to keep hot air from rising up to the air box. Notice the stock hood and hinges, the Holman and Moody oil cooler, and the OEM fenderwells.
The suspension was pure Smokey, too, with completely adjustable caster and camber via custom-made upper A-arms. While still prior to the disc brake age, Smokey reinforced his brake shoes by welding on small rods to prevent bending. Using the same, long Chevy truck-style rear control arms that are used today, he mounted the springs and shocks as close to the wheels as possible. He used square and rectangular tubing to reinforce the frame, not at all unlike what modern day NASCAR Winston Cup, Busch Grand National, Craftsman trucks and ARCA RE/MAX cars use today.


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Here's a copy of the first article I've put together for the wiki I'm constructing:
Torian's Creation
Before the world began, there were only the raw elements, moving about in a chaotic state and occasionally crossing paths. During one of these elemental crossings, the First Gods were suddenly brought into existence. It is unknown which exact combination of elements created them, but the result was beings of great intelligence with the power to manipulate the elements by binding their wills to them. After a time the First Gods decided to use this power to create the world, which they named Torian, and eventually all life and things which reside on it.
There was one First God, whom named himself Chaos, who was against the idea, believing that the elements were meant to exist in their natural chaotic state. He was of course overruled but given the position of ensuring that the elements are never entirely harmonious-unlike the others of his kind he was not bound to any elements directly. Over time he watched Torian, growing more and more to despise its very existence. It was only a matter of time before he would snap and attempt to take matters into his own hands.
Creation of Life
The first sentiment creatures to be created on Torian are believed to be the Elementi (similar to the Genasi of D&D's Forgotten Realms setting), the product of early experiments involving raw natural elements. Soon after came the Fey, magical beings and creatures more closely connected with ethereal elements. Some of the Fey eventually evolved into the various Elven races whom over time migrated northwest to the isle of Elerel. Men, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings and so on were among the First Gods' last sentient creations and are the product of much more diverse and dynamic weaves of elements than those who came before.
The Age of Chaos
Chaos soon grew tired of the compromise he'd been forced to make and began murdering other First Gods, which eventually escalated into an all-out war amongst the First Gods. Although Chaos hand only a handful of allies he was still incredibly powerful and with a number of the First Gods dead and others fighting in the war the elemental weave of Torian was starting to slowly unravel, resulting in a growing state of chaos in the world.
The counter this, the First Gods created the dragons-some to help stabilize the elements, others to take part in the war and some to simply help maintain some general order in the land. Unfortunately Chaos and his followers managed to create their own legion of dragons as well and as a result there was much confusion amongst the people of Torian as to the dragons' true nature and alignment.
The war ended when in a final battle the Supreme Goddess Sereni plunged Chaos hard into the earth, forming a crater in the middle of the ocean which she subsequently surrounded with a powerful force field to prevent his escape. A massive whirlpool formed around this crater, as if trying to fall into the sink hole but unable to. This whirlpool continues to spin even in the present day and most vessels traveling those seas make careful note to avoid it.
During the time of the Age of Chaos, many great heroes emerged and some were chosen to replace the deceased First Gods. The friends of these heroes went on to serve as priests or avatars to these new Gods, helping build new churches and to aid in the overall recovery process.
The Age of Dragon-Hunters
Meanwhile, the practice of dragon-hunting began to emerge. Unfortunately, the evil dragons were what people most remembered and the general assumption became that they all were evil. Of course, even the good dragons fought back in self-defense and most did not possess the patience to explain themselves, if they were even given an opportunity to do such to begin with. Eventually the dragons became an endangered species, but just before they could be driven entirely to extinction a great and renowned hunter encountered an especially wise and powerful white dragon, one whom claimed to have been created by Sereni herself. He explained to this hunter the origins of dragons and of their true nature. The hunter was no fool, his mind as sharp as any weapon he possessed and he was also taken aback by the fact that the dragon was making an effort to speak with him (some dragons were known to speak, but most had only used harsh words). He could tell the dragon's words were sincere, and was in a position thanks to his great fame to tell the people of his encounter and ensure that dragons from this point forward would no longer be actively hunted. Instead, dragon hunters would only pursue those dragons reported to have attacked settlements and farms or engaged in other clearly evil deeds.
By then, unfortunately the damage had already been done. Nearly all good dragons had become reclusive and distrustful of mortal creatures. On the flip side, most evil dragons would refrain from any substantial attacks, instead acting more in secret-some posing as Gods and gathering small cults of mortal followers to do their bidding. Their population has managed to increase only somewhat over time, and encounters with them are fairly rare.
The Present Time
The world is changing, and some followers of Sereni are beginning to feel that her power is somehow waning. Meanwhile, there are rumors of some kind of floating fortress appearing near the Chaos Crater and some have event spotted airships from the Torian Empire coming and going from it. Some are also coming to believe that Chaos is not only making plans to escape his prison but also has devised a means in which he will be able to destroy Torian itself once and for all.
I'm of course looking for some feedback on the ideas I've developed so far. Note that there are numerous other ideas I've come up with, some of which are touched upon briefly here. Feel free to also ask questions about anything mentioned in the article.


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EPA Administrator Christie Whitman today announced a voluntary decision by industry to move consumer use of treated lumber products away from a variety of pressure-treated wood that contains arsenic by Dec. 31, 2003, in favor of new alternative wood preservatives. This transition affects virtually all residential uses of wood treated with chromated copper arsenate, also known as CCA, including wood used in play-structures, decks, picnic tables, landscaping timbers, residential fencing, patios and walkways/boardwalks. By Jan. 2004, EPA will not allow CCA products for any of these residential uses.
"This action will result in a reduction of virtually all residential uses of CCA-treated wood within less than two years," said EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. "Today's announcement greatly accelerates the transition to new alternatives, responding to market place demands for wood products that do not contain CCA. This transition will substantially reduce the time it could have taken to go through the traditional regulatory process."
"This is a responsible action by the industry," Whitman continued. "Today's action will ensure that future exposures to arsenic are minimized in residential settings. The companies deserve credit for coming forward in a voluntary way to undergo a conversion and retooling of their plants as quickly as possible. The transition to new alternatives will provide consumers with greater choice for their building needs."
The transition period will provide consumers with increasingly more non-CCA treated wood alternatives as the industry undergoes conversion and retooling of their industrial equipment and practices, while also allowing adequate time to convert treatment plants with minimal economic disruption for the industry's employees. Beginning immediately, and over the next 22 months, wood treatment plants will convert to new alternative wood preservatives that do not contain arsenic. In the current year, manufacturers expect a decline in production of CCA products for affected residential uses up to 25 percent, with a corresponding shift to alternatives. During 2003, the companies expect the transition away from CCA to continue and increase, with a decline in production of CCA products for affected residential uses up to 70 percent, with a corresponding shift to alternatives. New labeling will be required on all CCA products, specifying that no use of CCA will be allowed by the wood-treating industry for the affected residential uses after Dec. 31, 2003.
EPA has not concluded that CCA-treated wood poses unreasonable risks to the public for existing CCA-treated wood being used around or near their homes or from wood that remains available in stores. EPA does not believe there is any reason to remove or replace CCA-treated structures, including decks or playground equipment. EPA is not recommending that existing structures or surrounding soils be removed or replaced. While available data are very limited, some studies suggest that applying certain penetrating coatings (e.g., oil-based semi-transparent stains) on a regular basis (one re-application per year or every other year depending upon wear and weathering) may reduce the migration of wood preservative chemicals from CCA-treated wood.
Arsenic is a known human carcinogen and, thus, the Agency believes that any reduction in the levels of potential exposure to arsenic is desirable. As always, when children play outside, whether around CCA-treated play structures or not, they should wash their hands prior to eating. Also, food should not be placed directly on any outside surface, including treated wood. CCA-treated wood should never be burned, as toxic chemicals may be released as part of the smoke and ashes. Consumers who work with CCA-treated wood are encouraged to use common sense in order to reduce any potential exposure to chemicals in the wood. Specific actions include sawing, sanding and machining CCA-treated wood outdoors, and wearing a dust mask, goggles and gloves when performing this type of activity. Clean up all sawdust, scraps and other construction debris thoroughly and dispose of it in the trash (i.e., municipal solid waste). Do not compost or mulch sawdust or remnants from CCA-treated wood. Those working with the wood should wash all exposed areas of their bodies thoroughly with soap and water before eating, drinking or using tobacco products. Work clothes should be washed separately from other household clothing before wearing them again.
Chromated copper arsenate, or CCA, is a chemical compound mixture containing inorganic arsenic, copper and chromium that has been used for wood preservative uses since the 1940s. CCA is injected into wood by a process that uses high pressure to saturate wood products with the chemicals. CCA is intended to protect wood from dry rot, fungi, molds, termites, and other pests that can threaten the integrity of wood products.
During the past several months, CCA-treated wood has been the subject of an EPA evaluation under provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, which direct EPA to periodically reevaluate older pesticides to ensure that they meet current safety standards. The Agency is continuing to proceed with a risk assessment. EPA is also continuing to evaluate public comments and input from an external scientific review panel on methodologies to perform a risk assessment for residential settings and potential exposure to children from CCA.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli rock musician Aviv Geffen will be the opening act for U2.
Geffen will join SnowPatrol in warming up the crowd at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece on Sept. 3 for U2's 360 Tour, Geffen announced on his website.
Geffen released his first album in English last year. In addition to being a solo artist, he performed with British musician Steven Wilson as the Blackfield Duo.


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Modular beacon tower components, often known as click-together beacon lamps, are used on different types of machinery for drawing attention to warning messages and fault conditions by providing a visual alarm.
How do modular beacon tower components work?
Modular beacon tower components are used in a wide-range of applications to achieve multi-status signalling. They are commonly used to make a tower up to six modules high. These towers can be used as single indicators or used as sounder modules.
Different components of modular beacon towers
Every tower beacon consists of the following essential components:
Base units
The base unit is the bottom area of the tower. This part has a terminal block for wiring, top cover and gasket in order to support the whole tower construction.
Light modules
Light modules come in different colours for different types of lamps or light modules, including LED, strobes, and incandescent lamps.
Audible Alarm Modules
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As we roll into 2016, and all of the resolutions for the new year are being conjured, it can be assumed that eating healthier is at the top of many lists. It isn't always an easy task, however with the introduction of so many healthy new snacking options, it has been made a little bit easier. Perky Fruit Bodies are a healthy snacking choice the whole family is sure to love! What is a Perky Fruit Body you ask? Remember those fruit roll-ups you loved so much as a child? They're just like that, but completely natural and organic!
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Good news, everyone! Futurama is still churning out new episodes, having just debuted their newest season last night on Comedy Central. (You did read our review, didn't you?) In preparation for the new season, the channel put together the below live-action recreation of the show's opening scene, utilizing a lot of unfuturistic cardboard. Fun times were had by all. Vulture also has a bonus behind-the-scenes clip showing the making of the live-action intro, too, in case you're into that sort of thing.
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Cary Harrison is a genius. Not an exaggeration. Not hyperbole or a well-intended, polite compliment. No unwarranted magnification, puffery or grandiosity here. But there's more. And he's more.
He's a raconteur, radio performer, TV host and American information treasure.
As Henry van Dyke said, "Genius is talent set on fire by courage." And if you're in this here alternative news and interpretation biz, you'd better have beaucoup courage and a pair of elephantine, gargantuan, and Brobdingnagian bawls. All of which, he's ably and sufficiently possessed.
Enjoy this. Two great friends looking and laughing at the world through the peculiar prism of unmitigated temerity and the aforementioned bawls.


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There's an important decision to be made in the upcoming Skyrim expansion Dawnguard, as a short, pre-E3 trailer for the new content shows. As the narrator puts it: "You have found our fortress. You have returned my daughter. But what is it you seek? Is it to be one of us? To make the darkness your own? To feast on the souls of the living? ... or are you with them, the Dawnguard?"
Yes, Dawnguard will offer players the option to become a floating, gnarled creature of the night, complete with the ability to transform into a flock of bats, or to join the titular fighting force and take out the undead threat. We also get our first glimpse of a new crossbow weapon type, which had been previously hinted at through some interestingly named patch files for the game. Those files also made reference to a Snow Elf Prince that doesn't seem to be a factor in the new trailer.
Bethesda says the expansion content will be available for 1,600 Microsoft points ($20) sometime this summer. Dawnguard will come to the PC and PS3 30 days later, thanks to a timed exclusive deal with Microsoft.


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Actually I didn't do so much.
Just get the Tommy Maintz and goachka implementations ,and apply to CakePHP.
You can clone a working example from http://github.com/eabay/directcakephp
It also contains a CakePHP combine helper to minimize javascript and css files.
Next version will be able to get methods of spesific controllers (with a property or from doc comments like elishnevsky implementation) and return rendered output as result.


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It's called Unsung Story, and it'll come to digital platforms at some point next year.
Yasumi Matsuno, he of Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics fame, is helming the project with Playdek, a company built to bring tabletop games to digital platforms. So yes, this is a tabletop game, of sorts, just like Matsuno's last project, the lovely 3DS game Crimson Shroud.
Unsung Story is actually two games, according to Playdek. One is a card game; the other is a strategy game. From the press release:
The first property based on Matsuno's visionary world will be co-designed by renowned French board game designer Christophe Boelinger, which will be released in 2014. The game introduces the world of Rasfalia in an exciting digital card game played online. The game pits two players against each other in a fast-paced and engaging struggle. Featuring innovative new game play mechanics, the card game will appeal to a wide variety of players through the immersive, strategic game play Boelinger is known for.
Both games will be supported by Playdek's award-winning features and the company's new community, launching before the end of the year, and will offer online and offline play.
We don't know a lot about either project yet, but it's good to see Matsuno still doing his thing.


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BRYN MAWR — Accent Signage Systems employees "will never get over" the Sept. 27 shooting that left five of their coworkers and UPS delivery driver dead, but they want it known they are back at work, said Shereen Rahamim.
Rahamim was the wife of company founder.
Shereen Rahamim spoke
Oct. 22 outside of Accent Signage Systems, the company her husband, Reuven, founded.
Reuven Rahamim, 61, who died in the rampage. Thirty-six-year-old Andrew Engledinger of Minneapolis opened fire on the day he was told he'd lost his job, and was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the company's basement.
Rahamim and company spokesperson Wendy Khabie on Monday morning expressed their gratitude for the outpouring of community support following incident, one of the worst instances of workplace violence in the city's history. Mayor R.T. Rybak, Police Chief Tim Dolan and company employees joined the two as they read from prepared statements on the street outside the business, located at 2322 Chestnut Ave. W.
"A eulogy at one funeral concluded with the following line: 'I will never get over this and I don't have to.' That is exactly how we feel," Rahamim said. "But while we will never get over this, together we will get through it."
Rybak said "virtually all" of the company's employees returned to work after the shooting, many of them as early as Oct. 8. He said the company, a manufacturer whose signature product is a Braille sign system used around the world, was "even more important" to the city after the shooting, and pledged his support.
Rybak praised the work ethic at the business, noting some Accent employees worked over the previous weekend to fill a large order.
"Accent gets work done," he said.
They are doing so after the loss of several key employees. Besides Reuven Rahamim, those killed included Rami Cooks, 62, of Minnetonka; Ronald Edberg, 58, of Brooklyn Center; Jacob Bruce Beneke, 34, of Maple Grove; and Eric Rivers, 42, of St. Paul, who died of his injuries Oct. 10 at Hennepin County Medical Center. Also dead is UPS driver Keith Baskinski, 50, of Spring Lake Park, who had pulled into the Accent Signage loading dock moments before Engledinger opened fire.
Engledinger's parents, Chuck and Carolyn, have said publicly they believe their son was suffering from a mental illness, and that despite their efforts to get him help he grew estranged from his family in recent years.
With the police investigation into the incident concluded, Khabie said, "our focus is on healing and getting back to work."
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[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
As used in this Part, the following terms have the meaning indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
- An equine or bovine animal, sheep, goat, pig, dog, cat and any small animal under domestication.
- Wantonly or cruelly, by any direct or indirect means, illtreats, overloads, beats, otherwise abuses any animal, or neglects any animal as to which he has a duty of care, whether belonging to himself or otherwise, or abandons any animal, or deprives any animal of necessary sustenance, drink, shelter or veterinary care, or access to clean and sanitary shelter which will protect the animal against inclement weather and preserve the animal's body heat and keep it dry; transports a living animal under inhumane or uncontrolled conditions adverse to the health, welfare or safety of the animal or persons in the vehicle or leaves a living animal unattended in a vehicle under inhumane conditions adverse to the health or welfare of the living animal.
- Any animal which makes a noise disturbance or scratches, digs or defecates upon any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or any other public or private property, other than the property of the owner or person in charge or control of such animal, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
- Any person having a right of property (possession) in any animal or having custody and control of any animal.
- Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.
- RESTRAINT or RESTRAINED
- The state of being secured or controlled by leash or chain (not to exceed six feet in length) or restricted to a building or otherwise restricted to an owner's private property, appropriate transportation carrier device, cage or vehicle. This definition shall not apply to animals participating in field trials or obedience classes organized and sanctioned by nationally recognized animal clubs, service animals assisting disabled persons, animals assisting police officers engaged in law enforcement duties or while being trained for law enforcement purposes or an animal on its owner's property, so long as such animal is under the direct and effective sound and gesture control and is within sight and sound of its owner or such individual noted above and the animal does not violate any of the provisions of these ordinances.
- Being upon any public highway, street, alley, park, or any other public land, or upon property of another person other than the owner without the nonowner's permission, and not being controlled by the owner or any other person having custody of said animal by means of a leash not exceeding six feet in length.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in cruelty or acts of cruelty upon an animal within the Borough of Doylestown.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
The provisions of §§ 104 and 110 hereof shall not apply to a service animal, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accompanying regulations, accompanying any handicapped person.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
It shall be illegal within the Borough of Doylestown for any person or persons to own, possess, harbor, or control any animal which makes any noise continuously and/or incessantly for a period of 10 minutes or makes such noise intermittently for 1/2 hour or more to the disturbance of any person any time of the day or night, regardless of whether the animal is physically situated in or upon private property, said noise being a nuisance, provided that at the time the animal is making such noise no person is trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private property in or upon which the animal is situated nor is there any other legitimate cause which justifiably provoked the animal.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
It shall be unlawful for any person to allow a household pet or other animal owned by that person to run at large without being restrained. Owners of cats who comply with the § 101, definition of "running at large," are not included herein under this § 105 and shall not be subject to penalties as described in this Chapter.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
No person, having possession, custody or control of any household pet or other animal owned by that person, shall knowingly or negligently permit any household pet or other animal owned by that person to commit any nuisance upon any gutter, street, driveway, alley, curb or sidewalk in the Borough, or upon the floors or stairways of any building or place frequented by the public or used in common by the tenants, or upon the outside walls, walkways, driveways, alleys, curbs or stairways of any building abutting on a public street or park, or upon the grounds of any public park or public area, or upon any private property other than the property of the owner of such household pet or other animal owned by that person.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
Any person having possession, custody or control of any household pet or other animal owned by that person which commits a nuisance in any area other than the private property of the owner, or on the property of another without their permission, of such household pet or other animal, as prohibited in § 106 shall be required to immediately remove the said feces from such surface and either:
Persons who comply with this Section shall not be in violation of § 106 or subject to penalty for occurrences that take place in any public or commonly used space as described in § 106.
Nothing in this Section shall exempt owners from violating § 106 and being subject to applicable penalties when a nuisance occurs on private property which is not the owner's private property or if an owner disposes of animal feces in a storm sewer or other public drainage system that discharges to any creek, stream or other area which may be continuously or from time to time carry a natural flow of surface or subsurface water in any area under the jurisdiction of the Borough.
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Owners housing and maintaining household pets shall:
If any such household pet shall be kept in a dwelling owned or occupied by its owner or on the owner's premises, such owner shall be required to follow such procedures and practices as to the number of such pets to be kept there and, as to sanitation, to insure that no public nuisance shall be created or maintained and no threat to the health of persons living within the dwelling or elsewhere shall be created.
Complaints arising from § 108.1 shall be investigated by the Bucks County Health Department subject to rules, regulations and procedures established by the county agency.
Dogs that are left outside on the owner's property without the ability to independently reenter the owner's dwelling shall have continual access to i) potable drinking water and ii) adequate shelter and shade.
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Owners keeping animals that are not household pets and not housed within the housing that the owner occupies:
For small animals: shall be housed in quarters no part of which shall be closer than 25 feet from the exterior limits of any dwelling or of any property line.
For large animals: shall be housed in quarters no part of which shall be closer than 100 feet from the exterior limits of any person's dwelling or of any property line.
The keeper of every such animal shall confine the same in an enclosure sufficient to prevent such animals from running at large, and such enclosure shall be of a size conducive to good sanitary practices and adequate and sanitary drainage facilities shall be provided.
Every keeper of any such animal shall cause the litter and droppings therefrom to be collected daily in a container or receptacle that when closed shall be ratproof and flytight and after every such collection shall cause such container or receptacle to be kept closed. At least twice a week, every such keeper shall cause all litter and droppings so collected to be disposed of in such manner as not to permit the presence of fly larvae.
Every keeper of any animals shall cause all feed provided therefor to be stored and kept in a ratproof and flytight building, box, container, or receptacle.
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Any person who fails to comply with the provisions listed in this section for a dog is in violation of § 102, related to cruelty to animals.
It shall be unlawful for any person to tether, fasten, chain, tie, restrain or cause an unattended dog to be fastened, chained, tied or restrained to houses, trees, fences, garages, stakes or other stationary or highly immobile objects by means of a rope, chain, strap or other physical restraint for the purpose of confinement, except in circumstances where all of the following requirements are satisfied:
The tethering is not for a longer period of time than reasonably necessary for the dog's owner or custodian to complete a temporary task on the premises that requires the dog to be physically restrained.
The tether is attached to the dog by a well-fitting collar appropriate to the age and size of the dog and not with any choke, pinch or prong type of collar and attached to the stationary object by swivel anchors, latches, or similar devices in a manner which prevents the tether from becoming entangled around any object so as to limit the dog's freedom within the tethered area, or to prevent the dog, or any of its appendages, from becoming entangled by the tether.
The tether or chain must be of a type commonly used for the size of the dog involved.
The dog has continual access to i) potable drinking water and ii) adequate shelter and an additional area of shade outside the shelter within the tethered area.
The dog is periodically monitored while tethered for the aforementioned reasonable period of time.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
Upon receiving a complaint or information that a household pet or other animal owned by the person receiving the complaint is causing a nuisance, noise disturbance, running at large, is housed or maintained in noncompliance with relevant ordinance or is the subject of cruelty in the Borough, the Chief of Police of the Borough shall cause an investigation to be made, and if the complaint is found to be true and correct, a notice in writing shall be served upon the owner of the household pet or other animal by a police officer notifying said owner that his or her household pet or other animal must be properly controlled.
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The Chief of Police shall keep a record of all notices so served as set forth in § 111, and upon receiving a second complaint or information against the same owner, if upon investigation the said second complaint or information is found to be true and correct, the Chief of Police shall prosecute the said owner and may seize and impound the animal under the provisions of the following sections.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
Any violation of this Section that would also violate any state law shall be prosecuted under that state law and not under this Part.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
Any owner who, after having received a notice as provided in §§ 111 and 112, in violation of any provision of this Part, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $300. Each day that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.
Any owner convicted under this Section twice within any twelve-month period shall forfeit the right to own, possess or have under his or her control any household pet or small animal that is not a household pet, for a period of two years beginning from the date of the second conviction.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
The police of the Borough of Doylestown are hereby authorized to seize any animal running at large and whose fines are unpaid and to detain such animal at any convenient place for a period not to exceed five days if such animal does not bear a current license tag or evidence of owner, or for a period not to exceed 10 days if such animal does bear a current license tag.
An impounded animal shall be housed and maintained in conditions which are humane and not adverse to the health or welfare of the living animal. Costs for housing and maintenance shall be charged to the owner.
Any owner who shall appeal a conviction and pays assessed fines shall be entitled to take back any seized animal until such time as the appeal is concluded.
[Ord. 2013-9, 9/16/2013]
The police are authorized to donate to a licensed animal welfare organization if such animal shall not be claimed and fines paid by its owner within the time specified in § 115 to pay fees and costs arising from detainment of the animal and payment of fines assessed to the owner.


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STEM Interest on Rise Among High Schoolers, Report Finds
High school students are increasingly interested in pursuing STEM majors and careers, a new report finds, with about 1 in 4 now stating such an inclination. But a longstanding gender gap is widening, the data show, with fewer females than males signaling STEM interest.
Overall, STEM interest has climbed by 21 percent among high schoolers when comparing the class of 2004 with the class of 2013, according to the report from My College Options and STEMconnector.
Mechanical engineering was by far the top major or career choice for current high school students interested in the STEM fields, selected by 20 percent of respondents. Second place goes to biology, at 12 percent.
Meanwhile, female interest in STEM began to decline starting with the class of 2010, the data show, while it is climbing for males. In all, 38 percent of males in the class of 2013 report a STEM interest, compared with just 15 percent of females.
Organizers are hosting a live and virtual townhall meeting today at 3 p.m. Eastern to discuss the report's findings, with guest speakers to include Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds. Although there is no charge for the townhall meeting, and a brief highlights summary of the report is available for free, the full report, which includes national and state-by-state data, costs $195.
Recovering from a 'Dramatic Dip'
The report comes amid strong and growing national interest in the need to encourage more young people to actively pursue advanced study and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In fact, President Obama himself has made a point of repeatedly using his bully pulpit to talk up STEM education, and has begun hosting an annual White House Science Fair to generate more awareness. In 2010, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a report, "Prepare and Inspire," which also highlights the need to get more young people to pursue the STEM fields, especially minorities and females.
On the gender gap, here's a few more data points. Surveys of current high school students for the graduating classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016 show the gap widening even further. For the class of 2016, 45 percent of males say they're interested in a STEM major or career, compared with 13 percent of females.
Leaving aside the troubling gender divide, the news about the overall gain in STEM interest among U.S. students may not be as encouraging as it sounds to those worried about ensuring a strong STEM workforce. That's because the national increase really only bring the United States back to where it was at an earlier point in time, said Ryan Munce, a vice president at My College Options, an organization operated by the nonprofit National Research Center for College and University Admissions that collected this data.
"The biggest part of that is the dramatic dip in the early 2000s, and what we've seen over the course of the last decade is it really coming back to historical averages," he told me.
The new report is not just focused on STEM interest. It also highlights national and state-by-state data on job prospects in the STEM fields. Experts tell me that the data on future STEM jobs have been available for some time, but that the survey information on student interest has not. In any case, the report cites a federal estimate that there will be at least 8.7 million U.S. STEM jobs in 2018, up from 7.4 million today.
The report probes differences in STEM interest not just by gender, but also by race and ethnicity. These differences, however, are less pronounced. Here's a snapshot of the share of students indicating a STEM interest:
• Asian: 32.8 percent
• American Indian: 29.6 percent
• White: 27.1 percent
• Hispanic: 25.1 percent
• African American: 22.5 percent
Differences by household income level were slight, less than 2 percent.
Geography appears to have little impact on STEM interest among current high schoolers, whether by region or state. At a regional level, it ranged from 25.1 percent in the West to 26.0 percent in the Midwest. The state with the lowest reported interest among high schoolers was Nevada, at 22.4 percent, and the highest Montana at 29.5 percent. Most hovered right around 25 percent. (The report says the national average for all current high school students is 25.5 percent. For the class of 2013, the figure is 25.2 percent.)
This finding surprised Robert S. Boege, the executive director of STEMconnector and ASTRA, the Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America.
"What struck me is how closely aligned most of the states are" in the level of STEM interest, he said.
Diving deeper into STEM preferences, as mentioned, mechanical engineering was squarely on top as the most popular discipline. Least popular? Energy technology at 0.1 percent.
Here's a top ten list:
• Mechanical engineering: 20.4 percent
• Biology: 11.9 percent
• General engineering: 11.0 percent
• Science: 10.6 percent
• Game Design and Developer: 9.4 percent
• Electrical engineering: 8.4 percent
• Computer/information sciences: 8.1 percent
• Mathematics/statistics: 8.0 percent
• Marine Biology: 7.6 percent
• Computer engineering: 5.9 percent
Girls Like Biology, Boys Like Engineering
The report also reveals some gender contrasts in areas of interest. For instance, biology was far more popular with girls, and mechanical engineering with boys.
Here's a quick sampling of particular STEM fields in which gender discrepancies were especially evident. Sadly, many of these are rather predictable.
• Biology
Girls (24.7 percent)
Boys (6.3 percent)
• Mechanical Engineering
Boys (27.5 percent)
Girls (4.8 percent)
• Game Design and Developer
Boys (12.4 percent)
Girls (2.8 percent)
• Marine Biology
Girls (14.6 percent)
Boys (4.7 percent)
Finally, here's an odd one. A lot more females (18.0 percent) than males (6.4 percent) selected "science" as an area of special interest.
There's plenty more to mine in this report, both at the national level and for given states. The results on STEM interest are drawn from annual survey data collected by My College Options. Each year, the organization collects data on high school students through a survey of some 5.5 million high school students, which covers 95 percent of American high schools.
Boege said the new report is a "first stab" at trying to map out the national and state landscape when it comes to student interest in STEM and the needs of states to build their STEM workforces to meet job demand and grow their economies.
"We try to link the information in a way that is comprehensible to the general public," he said. "There will be many, many questions raised by what we have put together, and hopefully it will stimulate debate."
UPDATE: (5:02 p.m.) One dimension of the report I neglected to mention was the large number of high school freshmen who eventually abandon their plans to pursue a STEM major or career. Nearly 28 percentroughly 1 million freshmendeclare an interest in STEM each year, but more than half of them, 57 percent, lose that interest by the time they graduate, the report says. The authors suggest this is a phenomenon worth careful attention, as it's a lot easier "to maintain interest than to create new interest where it is not present."
At the same time, this data point does not tell the whole story. Fifth-three percent of high school seniors became interested in STEM after their freshman year, the report shows. In the end, it says, high school seniors are about 10 percent less likely than freshmen to declare an interest in a STEM field.


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Let there be no misunderstanding at this point. The Arminian limits the atonement as certainly as does the Calvinist. The Calvinist limits the extent of it in that he says it does not apply to all persons…while the Arminian limits the power of it, for he says that in itself it does not actually save anybody. The Calvinist limits it quantitatively, but not qualitatively; the Arminian limits it qualitatively, but not quantitatively. For the Calvinist it is like a narrow bridge that goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across. As a matter of fact, the Arminian places more severe limitations on the work of Christ than does the Calvinist. (Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1932) p. 153.)
Typical Arminianist semi-Pelagian heretic: "Jesus died for the sins of the world."
True Bible-Believer: "No He didn't. Jesus died for the Elect and the sins of the Elect only." (John 3:16; John 1:29)
Around a minute and fifty-eight seconds into the video clip above, Todd made a blasphemous error—he commited Roman Arminian and Popish idolatries by saying that: "Jesus shed His blood for forgiveness of the sins of the world." Therefore Todd has just denied the Atonement—which is very dangerous ground to be on. Perhaps Todd has read one too many books by that false teacher, arch-heretic and anti-Christ Brian McLaren against Ken Silva's clear teachings. Todd you have just been exposed as a Arminianist semi-Pelagian heretic—although we suspect Todd is really secretly a Crypto-Lutheran trying to pollute our Pure Doctrines.


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Selectmen voted 3-0 tonight to support the proposed renovation plan for Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School that will face a districtwide vote Thursday.
Doreen M. Goodrich, board chairman, said, "This is one of our schools. These are our kids. We have the same obligation to these children as to our children who go to school in Auburn."
Selectman Stephen R. Simonian abstained and said, "I think people should make up their own minds."
The board also voted to recommend approval of 17 of the 22 articles on the warrant for the Oct. 23 town meeting.
Among those recommended were articles to: increase the operational budget for fiscal 2013 by $57,933 to $49.7 million; fund equipment and trucks for the Department of Public Works; and allow the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission to set the apportioned cost of membership on a per capita basis.
Other articles would: pay for various unfunded state and federal mandates, allow previously approved sewer funds to be "repurposed" for new sewer projects, and increase the school budget to meet the needs of special needs students.
Selectmen voted to take no position on proposals to approve Gilbert Way and Regis Drive as public ways.
They also declined to take positions on articles requesting unnamed sums of money to pay transportation costs for homeless students and acquire 6.6 acres owned by the Joel H. Prouty Lodge of Masons for a potential new Auburn Middle School project on West Street.
Finally, the board voted to approve the town meeting warrant as amended, "subject to review by town counsel."


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Freeze watches posted
A Freeze Watch has been posted for portions of Northwest Arkansas for Friday morning. Temperatures will drop quickly Thursday night behind a cold front and reach the freezing mark by early Friday morning, with some valley locations getting as cold as 28 degrees by 7am Friday.
While some patchy frost has been noted a few days in NWAR already this season, this will be the first freeze of the season. In some parts of NWAR, especially in low-lying areas, temps could remain at or below freezing for 3 to 4 hours Friday morning. Because of this, anyone with sensitive vegetation should take precautionary measures before the cold settles in.
Most places in the River Valley will remain above freezing Friday morning, though, some patchy frost can't be ruled out. Parts of the Ouachita's, above 1200 feet, could also experience near freezing temperatures (though a hard freeze is unlikely).
I'll tell you what we can expect tonight and I'll have more information on the Friday freeze, along with the rest of your weekend forecast, tonight at 5 and 6 on 40/29!!!


text: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:12 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > >>Craig White wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba > >>>>working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with a tdbsam > >>>>backend. I actually tried to purge as much of the old Samba & LDAP as I > >>>>could then reinstalled fresh. This included removing the Windows groups > >>>>and users and even the old tdbsam data. > >>>> > >>>>Unfortunately, I'm back where I started - users can't change their own > >>>>passwords using the Windows password change dialogue. Their system will > >>>>go away for a very long time (more than 15 minutes) then silently fail > >>>>to change the password. > >>>> > >>>>For those not familiar with Debian Sarge, it uses Samba 3.0.14a (Debian) > >>>>on a 2.6.8 kernel. This should mean that this is NOT the old Windows > >>>>security patch issue. > >>>> > >>>>I've attached my smb.conf (minus the shares definitions) if that helps. > >>>> > >>>>Also, for what it's worth, the user accounts are all in Domain Users and > >>>>users. All but mine use /bin/false as the login shell (but none of us > >>>>can change passwords). My account is also in Domain Admins - and I can > >>>>add machine accounts with it. > >>>> > >>>>Any ideas anyone? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>---- > >>>I kept my mouth shut because you were following someone's step by step > >>>and not the samba official documentation. > >>> > >>>If you want to follow the Samba By Example, methodology, you will > >>>probably find a lot more people willing to help. > >>> > >>>Changing passwords seems to only require that samba, smbldap-tools be > >>>properly configured for your ldap setup and a script referenced in your > >>>smb.conf > >>> > >>>The smb.conf you attached of course has nothing to do with LDAP and it > >>>isn't clear what you are trying to do. > >>> > >>>I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with the Samba By Example > >>>book (dead tree form) or pdf or html from the samba.org web site and > >>>figure out what you are trying to do so someone could actually help. > >>> > >>>Craig > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>I've followed the Samba by example in this case. It was not very > >>helpful. Between the typos, omissions, errors, and general lack of > >>content, it's hard to get anything to work following it. Sorry to be so > >>negative about it, but it seems to assume that if you just install the > >>packages, things work. > >> > >>Now a plain vanilla Debian Sarge system is hardly esoteric, but my > >>experience has been that things only work if you are doing a virgin > >>setup. In my case, Samba was originally vampired from my old W2K server > >>and I've always had the password problem. Trying to install LDAP on a > >>system that previously had a not-quite-working tdbsam backend also isn't > >>something that the howto writers seem to have tried. > >> > >>The other howto I followed was one of several that were written > >>specifically for people trying to get Samba+LDAP to work on a Debian > >>system. After several days of trying to get it to work, even following > >>idealx.org's howto, it still wouldn't. So I ripped everything out and > >>went back to a basic Samba setup without LDAP. And now I'm back to the > >>same old problem I had before - users can't change their passwords. > >> > >>And yes, my current setup was following the Samba by Example - html > >>form. I also have the dead-tree Samba Howto collection. According to > >>them, I have a working system. :) > >> > >>The basic "by example" says in some very elegant story telling, after > >>assuming that you have Samba installed, to smbpasswd -a root, map the > >>Administrator account to it, add some groupmaps, stir in some users and > >>voila, everything works. My setup passes the validation and the > >>troubleshooting. It works, except that it doesn't. > >> > >>Again, I'll admit that this probably does work on a fresh system. I've > >>set up Samba PDCs from scratch before without problems. However, it > >>doesn't seem to want to work on this existing server, even after I > >>sacrificed my old accounts vampired from W2K to try to get this working. > >>I shouldn't have to rebuild my entire server just to be able to change > >>passwords! > >> > >>Finally, you need to recognize that Debian does things its way. It has > >>installation scripts that ask you questions up front and put the answers > >>in multiple files scattered across your system. Samba by Example doesn't > >>actually tell you what to put where or why. In fact, it's actually > >>difficult to tell exactly which program or file you need to be using at > >>any given moment. We're not all Samba developers, after all. SWAT, > >>smbpasswd, pdbedit, etc. all seem to do the similar things but heaven > >>help the poor user who's trying to find out when or why you should use > >>one over the other. > >> > >>What I'm basically trying to say is you can't assume that everyone is > >>going to get to place by a particular route. Debian howtos are useful > >>for those of us with Debian-based systems because they give Debian > >>package names and follow Debian installation dialogues. If there is > >>something in the howto that you think is wrong or missing, then identify > >>it. It's not as if the "official" Samba documentation is all > >>encompassing and perfect. I've had to consult a couple of dozen > >>different guides in trying to get LDAP working. The official Samba ones > >>were less detailed and less informative than many of the others. And the > >>By Example guides spend far too much time in narrative and talking about > >>other software. Plus it's too Red Hat specific. A lot of the stuff it > >>tells you to do isn't right for Debian. > >> > >>Rant off. :) > >> > >>Do you have any suggestions other than rebuilding my entire server? > >>Under what conditions can a password change fail that doesn't > >>(apparently) affect other Samba services? > >> > >> > >---- > >#1 - you are asking general questions and posting general issues which > >can only at best get general answers. If you have a specific issue, you > >have to ask a specific question. That is how this thing works. > > > >As for your question about changing passwords...you give neither the > >context of how you are trying to change the password (the methodology), > >what you expect to happen and what is happening except in the most > >general way. You offer not a single piece of logs, don't mention that > >you checked the logs, in fact, don't give the slightest impression that > >you know what logs do and how they work. > > > >The point is...focus your problem to as simple a question that you can > >ask and ask it. If you go more than 3 paragraphs, the likelihood of > >getting and answer drops a lot. Specific questions get specific answers. > > > >#2 - The official samba documentation is what it is. It is what you and > >I make it and I know that JHT is gonna say, if there is something wrong > >with the documentation, please let him know what it is and he is only > >too glad to fix it. > > > >My personal impression of the samba documentation is that it is far and > >away the best documentation for any open source project that I have ever > >used. Is it perfect...probably not, but probably close. Does it > >anticipate all the things that you could possibly do wrong and then tell > >you how to fix them - no probably not. > > > >#3 - When I did my first migration from NT4 to Samba 3 (it was samba > >3.0.0) and I remember it clearly because I was trying to learn how to > >use LDAP at the same time. It was a nightmare and I'm sure the archives > >showed I asked a lot of questions that evidenced the fact that I didn't > >understand what I was doing. I put off the migration for a week until I > >grasped LDAP first and then the integration with samba and the vampire > >migration went a whole lot smoother. Still, I ended up doing the vampire > >probably about 15 times because I wanted to get it right up front > >because fixing it later was likely to be a bitch. > > > >#4 - I recognize your frustration and general lack of patience with > >this...might I suggest that you take a few days off and work on > >something else while you get a breather, let go of your frustration and > >can approach this with less of an attitude. I have to do this all the > >time - in fact, I have learned to almost institutionalize the process > >when I am learning something new because if I sit and keep pounding on > >it, I am not likely to see what I am doing wrong. > > > >Consider this - samba works - it works for thousands if not millions of > >people. > > > >I use LDAP everywhere since I learned how to get it done...I use it even > >on very small offices. I actually have 1 client that still does use tdb > >and I don't think that they ever change their passwords but if you are > >patient, I will try to change a users password via Windows which I > >surmise is what you are attempting to do. > > > >In the meantime, perhaps you want to get specific with what you are > >trying to do, what you expect to happen, what does happen, and what the > >logs say - perhaps you have to increase the log level to get a better > >picture. Perhaps someone else with great knowledge of samba PDC's with > >tdb passdb can answer what your issue is. > > > >Craig > > > > > > > 1) I thought that my question was rather specific: > - Windows XP Pro password change dialogue doesn't work - goes away, does > nothing, then quits without reporting an error. > - Samba version 3.0.14a (Debian) running on a Sarge system. > re. logs: as per my previous posts ages ago, when I initially tried to > get this fixed, the logs on the domain controller don't show anything. I > sent in some samba logs with the loglevel set to 100 to Jeremy for his > perusal. He never replied. > > 2) No documentation can be all things to everyone. I'm sure there are > people who like the nice story-telling style of the Samba docs. However, > for me they are mixing in too many variables. I prefer to keep things > separate, as in "here's how to set up LDAP", "here's how to configure > CUPS", etc., along with some side discussion on how the parts fit > together. The Samba docs flit from topic to topic, repeating unnecessary > details and leaving out key bits of information. Sorry, but I've been > too busy trying to get this to work to write down all the problems I've > found with the docs. :) > > 3) I didn't find out about the password change problem until the > passwords started expiring. By then my old server was history. This > isn't a large network so it was a couple of weeks before the problem > showed up. I was more concerned with testing the services, like file > sharing, printing and faxing. Who'da thunk that you couldn't change a > password? > > 4) As I said, I'm sure this does work. I've done it many times on clean > servers. I'd love to get LDAP to work, since it can handle my Linux > accounts too. However, I'm the only one here using Linux and so far the > others can put up with coming to me to use SWAT to change their passwords. > > However, people shouldn't have to become experts in the technology to > use something. Samba, LDAP, ssl, PAM and a pile of other software is a > lot to ask people to understand in detail just so they can log onto a > network. :) ---- just to beat a dead horse... it was following comment that really bothered me... "Sorry, but I've been too busy trying to get this to work to write down all the problems I've found with the docs. :)" I cannot resist the temptation to point out 2 very important web documents that I think pertain here... http://slash7.com/pages/vampires http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Craig


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Remember what Alan Simpson said after Obama's disastrous, demagogic, compromise-destroying attack on Paul Ryan a few weeks ago? He knew he'd just seen any chance of a deal between the Republican and Democratic leaderships go up in smoke. Quote:
"Just pray for the Gang of Six," he said. "You guys your age, keep praying."
What happens if the Gang of Six fails? Mr. Simpson was asked.
"Guys like you will be picking grit with the chickens when you are 65," he replied.
Start boning up on grit-picking, my friends:
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) announced Tuesday that he would pull out of the talks with two other Republican and three Democratic colleagues…
"We can't bridge the gulf of where we need to go on mandatory spending," Corburn said Tuesday afternoon. "I don't see that there's going to be any fruition in continuing them at this time."
Coburn has insisted for weeks that Social Security reform, including cutting benefits, would have to be part of any Gang of Six deal. But Democrats such as Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said they wanted to deal with Social Security reform separately, not as part of a broad deficit-reduction package…
"We're at an impasse," Coburn said. "There's no reason to sit and talk about the same things over and over and not get any movement.
He allowed that there's a slim chance talks could pick up again, but if the sticking point is whether or not to include Social Security reform in their grand bargain on the deficit, then realistically they're not going to find common ground. Saxby Chambliss and Mike Crapo are still part of the "Gang" on the GOP side, but neither one of them has the sort of conservative cred that'll be needed to sell a compromise in the unlikely event that they reach one. (Chambliss, in fact, is already under suspicion on the right for appearing a bit too eager to include tax hikes in the deal.) Coburn, necessarily, was going to have to be the point man on that, and now he's gone. Maybe it's a stunt designed to shake up the negotiations and force an agreement that'll lure him back, but if it doesn't work, then the only budget game in town right now is the comically pathetic Biden group, whose own members aren't taking it seriously. Said Jim DeMint, who's not a member but has it pegged, "It will be historic, but it will be meaningless." Exactly. Which leaves us … where on entitlement reform?
I guess it's going to take a fiscal collapse after all.


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El Ombu (Departamento de Río Negro, Uruguay)
El Ombu is a Mennonite settlement and congregation in Uruguay, ca. 185 miles (300 km) north of Montevideo, on the main highway to Paysandu (65 miles (110 km) away), the town of Young (pop. 5,000) being the nearest market. El Ombu was founded in 1950 with the aid of the Mennonite Central Committee by Mennonite refugees from Danzig and West Prussia, most of whom had been in refugee camps in Denmark since their flight from Danzig in January 1945. El Ombu (the name refers to a shade tree) is actually the name of a 25,000-acre estate, 3,000 acres of which were bought at a price of $100,000 and occupied 17 April 1950. About half of the 750 Mennonites who arrived in Uruguay 7 October 1948, on the Volendam settled here, a total of 80 families and 12 single persons. (In April 1951, about 400 persons in 100 family units were living in El Ombu, 10 of whom had previously belonged to two congregations in Poland, Deutsch-Kazun and Wymysle.) In September 1950 the El Ombu cooperative ("Flor del Rio Negro") was organized, to which every settler (head of a family) belonged.
The El Ombu congregation was organized on 10 March 1952, with the following ministerial organization: elder, Ernst Regehr, formerly elder (1934) of Rosenort; preachers, Gustav L. Reimer (1931 Heubuden), Heinrich Wall (1934 Fürstenwerder), Alfred Hinz (1935 Orlofferfelde), Otto Jochem (1941 Fürstenwerder), Reinhard Fast (1952 El Ombu); deacons, Johannes Wiebe (1933 Heubuden), Heinz Dyck (1952 El Ombu). The crops in El Ombu were wheat, corn, flax, sunflowers, and peanuts. Milk, butter, and fruit were also in production. An orange orchard of about 100 acres with 11,000 bearing trees was on the tract when bought. El Ombu is the oldest Mennonite settlement in Uruguay and the center of Mennonite life there in the 1950s.
Dück, W. "Neue Heimat in Uruguay, Die Mennonitensiedlung El Ombu." Mennonitischer Gemeinde-Kalender (1952): 56-65.
Reimer, G. E. "Von Danzig nach Uruguay." Mennonite Life 4 (July 1949): 12-14.
Wall, H. "Drei Jahre in Uruguay." Mennonitische Geschichtsblätter 9 (March 1952): 18-26.
|Harold S Bender
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Bender, Harold S. "El Ombu (Departamento de Río Negro, Uruguay)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 27 Oct 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=El_Ombu_(Departamento_de_R%C3%ADo_Negro,_Uruguay)&oldid=91678.
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Bender, Harold S. (1956). El Ombu (Departamento de Río Negro, Uruguay). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 27 October 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=El_Ombu_(Departamento_de_R%C3%ADo_Negro,_Uruguay)&oldid=91678.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 175. All rights reserved.
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SANDWICH, England - A player from Northern Ireland charged up the leaderboard at the British Open.
Just not the one you might expect.
Darren Clarke shot his second straight 2-under 68 on Friday, taking a lead role heading to the weekend and showing his younger countrymen a thing or two at Royal St. George's.
Once the face of Northern Ireland golf, the 42-year-old Clarke became an afterthought when first Graeme McDowell, then Rory McIlroy claimed major championships. Maybe it's time for the old guy to get his title, too.
'It would mean an awful lot,' Clarke said.
'But obviously, this is only after two rounds. There's an awful long way to go yet.'
Clarke rolled in a 90-footer for eagle at the seventh and closed his round with a birdie at the tough 18th, sending him to the clubhouse tied for the top spot with Lucas Glover at 4 under 136.
Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, followed an opening 66 with a solid 70 on a warm, sunny day on the English seaside.
'I didn't hole as many putts as I did yesterday,' the bearded Glover said. 'But I'm happy to grind out even par.'
The U.S. has gone five straight majors without a title - its longest drought of the modern Grand Slam era. Glover shrugged off the slump; besides, he could be in line to snap another streak.
'They told me no one has won the Open championship with a beard since the 1890s,' he said.
Also in contention from the other side of the Atlantic: Chad Campbell, who shot 68 and was one shot back at 3-under 137; Dustin Johnson (68) and old-timers Davis Love III (68) and Tom Lehman (67), all at 138; and, yes, even Phil Mickelson, who came to England trying to forget his Open record.
Lefty has only one top-10 finish in 17 previous appearances. Despite missing several short putts over the first two days, a 69 made him a factor at 139.
'It's fun to be in contention heading to the weekend of the British Open,' he said.
McIlroy won't run away with this championship as he did last month at the U.S. Open, but the 22-year-old wasn't complaining about his position. Playing in the afternoon, after the wind picked up, he shot an impressive 69 and was at 140 overall.
He saved his best for last, pulling out a par after plugging his approach in a pot bunker in front of the green. McIlroy somehow knocked it on the green and sank a 12-foot putt, pumping his fist as he walked toward the cup.
All four current major champions were headed to the weekend, but not the top-ranked player in the world. England's Luke Donald closed with four straight bogeys for a 75.
PGA champion Martin Kaymer (67) was at 137, with Masters winner Charl Schwartzel (68) another stroke back. Defending British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (70) also was safely above the cut line at 142.
The forecast was much worse for the final two rounds, with both wind and rain expected.
Bring it on, said Mickelson.
'One of the things I'm looking forward to is actually the bad weather,' he said. 'I hope it comes in.'
Bjorn, playing in the same group as Dyson, was in danger of falling completely out of the mix when he bogeyed three straight holes at the start of his round. But the 40-year-old Dane pulled himself together, playing 1 under the rest of the way for a 72 that left him one stroke off the lead heading to the weekend.
'It wasn't the prettiest of days golfwise, but I'll take where I stand in the championship,' Bjorn said.
So will Miguel Angel Jimenez, also at 137 after shooting 71.
There was plenty of experience on the leaderboard with 40-somethings Clarke, Jimenez, Bjorn and Love, plus the 52-year-old Lehman, who won the Open 15 years ago.
'The round just kind of flowed,' Lehman said. 'I hit it solidly, made a few nice putts, drove the ball extremely well, so I feel like I wasn't really pressured all day long. It was a good day.'
The opening round produced a pair of unlikely leaders. Bjorn had missed the cut in four of five events before he got to Royal St. George's, his game in disarray, his heart heavy after the death of his father, and lugging around plenty of baggage at this place.
Eight years ago, Bjorn squandered a two-stroke lead in the final three holes, allowing Ben Curtis to sneak away with one of golf's most improbable wins.
Getting into the tournament on Monday as an alternate when Vijay Singh dropped out, Bjorn played only one practice round, then went out and shot a 65.
So did 20-year-old Tom Lewis, who became the first amateur to lead the Open since 1968, the first to pace any major since Mike Reid at the 1976 U.S. Open.
But Reid looked more his age in the second round, bogeying the final two holes for a 74 that dropped him three strokes off the pace. At No. 18, Lewis knocked his approach over the green, striking a fence post in front of the grandstands and forcing him to play a chip off a gravel road.
Still, he's made it through to the weekend - his primary goal.
'If you asked me that two days ago, I would have taken it,' Lewis said. 'But at this moment, it doesn't feel so good.'
At least he had a good view for the shot of the day.
Playing partner Tom Watson, the five-time Open champion Lewis is named after, sent a charge through the place with a hole-in-one at the sixth.
Pulling out a 4-iron, Watson sent the ball soaring to the green, then watched it bounce one time before dropping into the cup. The 61-year-old threw both arms in the air, high-fived Henrik Stenson, shook hands with Lewis, then took a bow toward the grandstand.
'Wish I could have seen it go in,' Watson said as he walked toward the hole to retrieve the second hole-in-one at this Open. Johnson aced the 16th during the opening round.
Watson missed some short putts, though, and finished with a 70 for a 142, good enough to send him through to the weekend.
The morning starters definitely caught a break with the weather. Early on, there was barely a cloud in the sky and little wind off the Strait of Dover, the flags hanging limply above the grandstand.
Clarke took advantage, though it had nothing do with being spurred on by the success of his younger countrymen.
'I've been personally delighted for both of them,' he said. 'We've got back-to-back U.S. Open champions from a small, little country like Northern Ireland. That's a massive achievement.'
Clarke will likely be carrying on this weekend without McDowell, who stumbled to a 77 for a 5-over 145.
'It's getting to be a bit of a habit, these type of days,' McDowell moaned. 'A bad habit to get into, obviously.'
Donald's finish epitomized the woes for the English, who had hoped to make a big splash at the club that has hosted more Opens outside Scotland than any other course.
Lee Westwood, No. 2 in the world, shot 73 and was in danger of missing the cut. Ian Poulter headed home after a 78.