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In Meriden Police Brutality Case, There Was A Gap In A Tape
No Recording Of Move Officer Contends Prisoner Made Toward Him At Holding Cell
By DAVE ALTIMARI,
The Hartford Courant
9:48 AM EDT, April 18, 2011
The officer who is a target in a federal probe of the police department claimed he pushed a handcuffed prisoner because the man had spun toward him in a threatening manner and invaded his personal space.
But a review of the security tapes of the May 2010 incident involving Evan Cossette, the police chief's son, and the prisoner, Pedro Temich, shows there is about a six to eight second gap in the security tapes that could have been picked up by a camera in the booking area outside the holding cell. Police now say that tape has been erased.
The gap coincides with the time when the prisoner would have made the move that Cossette described to internal affairs investigators.
Meriden police turned over the holding cell video to FBI agents late this week as part of the joint federal and state investigation into allegations that a series of police brutality complaints against Evan Cossette were dismissed because his father, Jeffry Cossette, is the police chief.
There are two videos: The first shows Cossette walking Temich from his cruiser out of the sally port to book him. The second video shows what happened inside the holding cell when Cossette pushed Temich down.
The gap in the security videos already made public by police could have shown what happened when Cossette escorted a handcuffed Temich through the sallyport doors and walked him over to a holding cell less than 20 feet from those doors. It could also show what happened as Cossette opened the holding cell door.
In his interview with internal affairs, Cossette said that as he opened the holding cell door Temich "spun around and invaded my personal space."
"I became fearful that he (Temich) was going to continue to be combative and possibly headbutt me or even kick me as he attempted to do at the scene,'' Cossette told Sgt. Leonard Caponigro during the interview.
The Courant asked Jeffry Cossette a series of questions about the gap in the security tapes last week and he didn't respond.
Attorney Sally Roberts, who is representing Temich, requested the security tapes from the booking area for the night Temich was arrested and was told last week by Caponigro, the head of internal affairs, that the "camera system does not support video from that far back."
Caponigro told her that the videotapes are saved for 30 days and then erased.
The missing tape became an issue during Cossette's internal affairs interview as well when union steward John T. Williams asked Caponigro about the gap between the tape showing Cossette bringing Temich through the sallyport door and what happened inside the holding cell.
Caponigro seemed to indicate that he had watched that tape even though it was well after the 30-day storage period because the initial unnecessary force complaint against Cossette wasn't filed until more than six weeks after the May 1 incident.
"What about the camera outside the door in the center area there?'' Williams asked.
"Yeah I don't think it caught anything because when they opened the door it blocked the view,'' Caponigro responded.
The videotape picks up again with Temich, his hands cuffed behind him, backing into the cell and Cossette pushing him with two hands. Temich is at least two full steps into the cell when Cossette pushes him, which seems to contradict the officer's version.
Cossette said that he couldn't close the holding cell door and that he was fearful for his own safety so he gave Temich a "firm push back in order to get him into the cell."
"Unfortunately he was too intoxicated and fell down and bumped his head and then we rendered medical assistance,'' Cossette said, adding that he later found out at MidState Medical Center that Temich's blood-alcohol level was 0.321, four times the legal limit.
The video shows Temich falling backward and cracking his head on a concrete bench in the back of the cell. It required 12 sutures at the hospital to close the wound, Roberts said..
The videotape shows Temich lying unconscious in the cell as Cossette enters at least six times and moves him around, twice propping Temich up against the bench and another time putting him back on the ground so that he could remove the handcuffs. There is blood visible on the floor where Temich fell.
Cossette did not call for medical help, police reports indicate. An attorney representing Temich said that a dispatcher who saw Temich on the camera at the front desk called for an ambulance. Paramedics arrived about five minutes after Cossette first pushed Temich to the ground.
Caponigro never asked Cossette why he didn't call for medical assistance or why he moved a man with head injuries several times.
The Hunter's Ambulance record of the call states that the Meriden Police Department reported that patient was intoxicated and fell.
The ambulance records note the patient had a head injury that was bleeding from the back. Paramedics placed Temich in a collar and then fully immobilized him on a long board before taking him to the ambulance. The records note that in the ambulance Temich had to be restrained because he became extremely combative.
Caponigro went through the videotape of the push with Cossette and pointed out that Temich didn't seem to be combative.
"It appears, Officer Cossette, that he is backing up into the cell,'' Caponigro said.
Cossette answered, "The camera also doesn't tell the full story."
"That's what I've been told,'' Caponigro responded.
Caponigro concluded that he "did not see any furtive movements from this handcuffed male that would have caused Officer Cossette to push him." He cited Cossette for using unnecessary force in handling a prisoner.
But at an administrative hearing in front of Deputy Chief Timothy S. Topulos, the charges were lowered and only a letter of reprimand was placed in Cossette's file. Cossette also was ordered to take four hours of training on the use on unnecessary force.
It is not clear if Cossette completed that training. In the eight months after the Temich incident two other police brutality complaints were filed against Cossette. He was cleared both times.
Copyright © 2011, The Hartford Courant


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|I see that a lot of people are promoting Squigle and xylitol as cures for mouth ulcers. I have some kind of sensitivity to xylitol and get bad stomach ache if I have chewing gum with it in, so am a bit concerned about using toothpaste with a high percentage of it in. Has anyone else noticed this kind of sensitivity? I have always wondered if it might be linked to getting mouth ulcers in some way.
|Bec 19 September 06
|Dear Bec,
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|Dr. Edward Cutler 19 September 06
|I totally get a stomach ache whenever I chew artificially sweetened gum. Now I've noticed I get canker sores if I chew it too much!
|Roxanne St.John 8 April 17
|The Dr above didn't really answer your question.. just promoted his product. my husband was taking Xylimelts whose main ingredient is Xylitol, for a dry mouth remedy and developed severe mouth ulcers, burning tongue and roof of his mouth . it took a long time( weeks) to figure it out as he had other issues going on. swabs were negative for virus and thrush. He finally quit the Xylimelts and his mouth started to feel better in a couple of days.. after it settled he tried the Xylimelts again and his mouth started to get sores again.
|Eldavia 9 February 18
|Eldavia, the esteemed Doc was precise in his answer. Ingesting too much Xylitol can cause digestive discomfort, though much less so than sorbitol - and in the case of Squigle or XyliMelts the quantity is insignificant. However, xylitol is very effective for stimulating saliva production and preventing plaque. As for XyliMelts 1 in 10,000 people show a reaction to the natural acacia gum (for whom there is an alternative). The most likely cause of the problem is mint (specifically the chemical component carvone), for some people with such oral complaints, mint can actually feel like it is burning. Both Squigle and XyliMelts are available mint-free.
|Dom Walton 10 February 18
|I get mputh ulcers FROM xylitol.... so hard to avpid
|Bonnie 6 April 18
|I also used xylimelts which were brilliant for dry mouth but then I developed very sore gum and horrific mouth ulcers on the roof of my mouth, gums etc. Have stopped using them and ulcers are clearing up.
|Paula 20 April 18
|Paula - in the US where they have sold millions of XyliMelts, they have data which suggests 1 in 10,000 people have a sensitivity to the acacia gum (which is the adhesive). Please contact OraCoat (or if you are in the UK me, there is an alternative. https://www.mouthulcers.co.uk/contact
|Dom Walton 21 April 18
|Thanks very much, Dom. I am in the uk. Had a severely dry mouth and salty taste for over a year now. I wake up every hour throughout the night as my mouth is so dry and my tongue gets sore. I was really impressed with xylimelts and was managing to sleep for 4 hours. Trust me to be one in 10000! Any alternative would be much appreciated.
|Paula 27 April 18
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Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature. Normal body temperature is around 98.6 F (37 C). Hypothermia (hi-poe-THUR-me-uh) occurs as your body temperature passes below 95 F (35 C).
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Last month Deb King sent me a glorious Christmas present full of the most tantalizing delicacies from her internationally renowned King Bakery in Meridian, Mississippi. Her brownies were so delicious even my DH (who is locally famous for his) has been experimenting with his recipe to see if he could match Deb's. This resulted in yesterday's brownie bake off at our house.
The people's choice yummiest brownie award went to Deviant Scrap's Clementine. Her award winning brownies were from a batch that she was going to throw out because she left them in the oven too long. We begged her to bring the bad ones along with her new batch of good ones - and the bad ones won. Besides being the choclatiest they were also the chewiest. (My favorites are usually the chewy corner brownies.) And, like Deb's brownies, these had a thin dark chocolate frosting. We sampled all the brownies with espresso to "cleanse our palettes" between bites. Closing our eyes, we inhaled the chocolate bouquets, delicately munched bits of each (giving extra points for tactile mouth friendliness) and then (after discreetly sampling each) scarfed them down like The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Deb's brownies are still widely considered the world's best but my DH's last batch is still killer and he is willing to share his new improved recipe here:
Tim's Totally Acceptable and Reliably Delicious Brownies
7 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
1.5 sticks butter
1.25 cups unbleached flour
.5 tsp salt
.75 tsp baking powder
.5 cup raisins
2.25 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
1 cup walnuts or pecans
Get the oven going at 325 Fahrenheit.
Fold foil around the inside of a 13 x19 inch baking pan.
If you want nuts roast them in the stove while its warming up for about 10 minutes and set aside.
Whisk the flour, salt, and baking powder together and set aside.
Chop the chocolate into little bits, throw into a bowl with the chopped-up butter and cook in the micro until it is creamy (about 1 minute).
Stir eggs and vanilla into chocolate/butter.
Fold the flour mixture into the chocolate mix.
Add raisins (unless you hate them).
Pour into the pan.
Sprinkle nuts on top wacking them lightly into the batter with a spatula.
Place in oven for about 35 - 40 minutes (until a toothpick comes out with just a couple tiny crumbs).
Let cool for at least 2 hours (whatever....)
Pulling them out by the tin foil keeps them from sticking to the sides of the pan.
Bon Apetit!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Brownie Bakeoff
6 comments:
- priss (Umeboshi) said...
oh no! I'm supposed to be on a diet!
- January 20, 2011 at 2:13 AM
- Mumure said...
Love the photo :o)
Congrats Clementine!
Hubby will try your recipe.He is the cooker in our home :)
Have a nice week-end girls.
- January 21, 2011 at 3:33 AM
- debra said...
I'm totally speechless! Lorie is talking about my bakery! I showed my sis too. Now I really am internationally known! What a glorious thrill you gave me talking about the brownies! I still cant stop grinning!
- January 25, 2011 at 6:42 AM
- Lorie said...
Debra you are the world's Queen of bakers. Everyone knows that.
- January 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Hollie Haradon said...
Ha! You two are too cute! Sounds like a perfectly good time to me. Yum!
- January 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM
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- February 3, 2011 at 5:15 PM
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I have been a writer of advertising for a little over 44 years. I have won awards, I have been fired. I have worked at the most exalted, the most creative agencies that ever existed. I have spent time freelancing, working a month, or a year, or a week at a place on a brand. I started my career on an industry-changing account at a transformative agency. I worked at places that did nothing more than sell out for a buck. I have been acclaimed and forgotten. I have been given a voice I never dreamed I would have, reached heights, in a tuxedo, in my younger days, accepting trophies from mentors. I have been mired in a depression, taking a leave, wondering if I would ever be able to write another headline again.
I have spent the last 14 years at an agency that is well known, working on a product from the largest household products company in the universe.
Some months ago, that agency let me go. I am 64 years old.
Bitter? A bit. It still feels fairly recent. But I am almost over it. In the end, unemployed, uncertain of the future — no one will feel particularly sorry for me. I was told that once, when I was fired at 35, in an Armani suit, let go for a reason I can't remember now, then rehired that same afternoon. A week later, I quit for a better job. Two years after that, I got fired again. That time, it stuck. I went to Key West, licked my wounds, came back in a month to another job for more money.
What is a career? I can't speak for other careers, I can only speak for an advertising copywriter career. My own. Uniquely my own, but I am sure there are other writers with similar careers though perhaps not as long as mine.
I never reached the heights of agency partner, name on the door, never higher than senior vice president, never earning more than $300,000 a year (no one will feel sorry for me), never on a board of directors, never a part of an executive meeting with discussions of staffing or strategic shifts or logo design or anything other than a million meetings with a zillion account executives to discuss the next commercial or print ad needed and when it would be due.
Forty-four years of this. Of sitting in an office with an art director and kicking around ideas and talking about what we did the night before and complaining about management and kicking around ideas some more until someone turns on a computer or opens a pad or looks for a photograph or jots down a phrase, a line, a script. It was the same in 1968 when I first started. It was the same the day before I got let go.
I love the advertising business.
I hate the advertising business.
I have been on lists, optional and expendable. Been discussed and been revered. Been knocked down in negotiating salaries, been handed an unexpected bonus. I don't know any other career, any other 9-to-5 life, any other way to make a living. I don't know what it's like to dress up for work every day; I've worn flip-flops and shorts, I've chain-smoked in client meetings, had three-martini lunches. I've been called down to H.R., considered aggressive, thought to be difficult. I've been called into offices, given a fat raise, told how talented and valuable the agency higher-ups thought I was. I've sat in an office next to the leaders of the business, watched them write and art-direct campaigns that have made the industry a joy to work in. I have presented work to my bosses — people who were geniuses and giants, hacks and hangers-on. And now, mostly forgotten.
The best campaigns I've been involved in for over four decades — the work that inspired me, made me want to do better, that I've been involved with, that I've been jealous of, that I hadn't necessarily inaugurated but carried the torch of, the stuff of legend — does anyone really remember? Most of those advertising bigwigs I quaked in front of, if they're not dead, are over with. A name on LinkedIn, maybe. A consultant. Or in real estate. Also people who have sold their agencies for millions, moved to Palm Beach and East Hampton and Mustique, merged and acquired and shook their heads as they walked out the door remarking how much the business has changed. How the business is no longer fun. How the business is headed by unimaginative clients who are fearful and insistent on focus groups and test results to predict some kind of success in a business in which it is ultimately impossible to predict what works and what doesn't.
But, happy to say, I've worked for the geniuses. And, sad to say, I've also worked for people who merely have a genius for keeping their jobs. No 50-50 split, the odds are now in the camp of the latter. Since the mid-1980s, I saw the shift from great work to something else. Focus groups took over. Research. Holding companies, one even known for making wire hangers, bought agencies, gobbled them up because they seemed like such large profit centers. The upkeep, the overhead, lay solely inside the heads of the employees (expendable all, replaceable all). Plus a few copiers, some fax machines, and, later, laptops. No widgets to sell, no inventory whatsoever to go stale or out of date. Just the minds of the people. Minds that get used, used up, and then tossed out. Like an IBM Selectric typewriter. Like even an Apple computer, those blue-and-orange ones reminiscent of a retro television set, traded in for a sleek MacBook Air. And then, just leased. To be replaced anew when a thinner, sleeker, cheaper model comes on the scene.
Like copywriters and art directors. Obsolete. "Next!"
Today's advertising business is basically run by the men and women who rise to high levels because they play the game, put on the right faces, "global" people who go to the endless meetings in China and London, suck up to the people above them, ignore the people below. The business of advertising has grinded on around me for ages since the creative revolution of the 1960s, the "Mad Men" era when advertising was indeed an art form. Before the M.B.A.s and the B.F.A.s and research and planners and levels and layers of people who found they could be successful just by showing up and pretending to know what they are talking about. The people who give their clients exactly what they think they want. Not creating. Not stretching. Just spewing back. This is how advertising is now.
But advertising then? Heaven. Filled with people with big ideas and conviction and enthusiasm. Wanting to make a name for themselves, wanting to be proud of the work. Wanting their clients to make a name for themselves and be proud of the work. To be talked about. To succeed. These are the names that hired me and have resounded in my memory throughout my career, made my career happen, gave me a beach house, a wonderfully rich life and a voice and even offered a platform, the confidence for me to build a further career as a writer. Names like Bill Bernbach and Mary Wells and Ed McCabe and Carl Ally and Jerry Della Femina and Jay Chiat. Names like David Ogilvy and Rosser Reeves before them. Like Roy Grace and Helmut Krone after. The people who have made the advertising business the business I wanted to be a part of. The people who have put Volkswagen and Federal Express and Apple and Perdue and Alka-Seltzer and Braniff and Volvo and Hathaway Shirts and American Express and Avis and others on the map. With work that wasn't tested or dissected or thought to death or rewritten by assistant brand managers or anybody else, but work that was presented with pride as the clients responded enthusiastically: "Let's run with it!"
One of my favorite ads, done at Doyle Dane Bernbach in the '60s, where (and when) I began my career, was done for American Airlines. It was rumored in the industry, a much smaller industry back then, that American Airlines was unhappy and looking to replace the agency. Doyle Dane ran an ad, a full-page ad in The New York Times. A cartoon, much like the ones that ran in The New Yorker by a cartoonist named Saxon.
The drawing was of the chairman of American Airlines, standing up, fists propped up on his desk, talking to co-workers. The caption/headline read: "We are not looking for another ad agency. We can barely stand the one we have."
Is there a client today willing to be this clever and irreverent?
Is there an ad agency today willing to be this risky and even show an ad like this?
You watch television. You look at magazines. You tell me.
Hy Abady is the author of "Back in The Star Again: True Stories From the East End." He lives part time in Amagansett.


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|Romney then
To me, his response came as no surprise. This is precisely what most gay-bashers think and say, according to my groundbreaking research on the motivations of perpetrators.
In the first empirical research into prevalence rates of and motivations for antigay harassment and violence by noncriminal young adults, I found antigay behaviors like Romney's to be alarmingly commonplace. One in 10 young adults in the politically liberal San Francisco Bay Area admitted to physical violence or threats against presumed homosexuals, and another 24 percent acknowledged name-calling. The percentages were even higher among young men. The frequency of self-acknowledged antigay behaviors among a general population sample was consistent with victim studies in which large proportions of lesbians and gay men report sexuality-related victimization.
Like Mitt Romney, most gay-bashers with whom I conducted followup interviews insisted that they were not motivated by hatred of homosexuals. This despite the fact that many of their assaults fell within legal definitions of a hate crime. Many, like Romney, were instead acting as self-appointed enforcers of gender norms for male and female behavior.
Washington Post reporter Jason Horowitz was able to track down five former classmates of Romney's who gave similar accounts of how Romney led a "vicious" assault against a closeted gay classmate at his prestigious boarding school in Michigan. The victim, John Lauber, was "perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality." Romney reportedly became incensed about Lauber's bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye:
"He can't look like that. That's wrong. Just look at him!" an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann's recollection. Mitt, the teenage son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber's look, Friedemann recalled.A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school's collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber's hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors."It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me," said [Thomas] Buford, the school's wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was "terrified," he said. (Buford later became a prosecutor. )
Soon after the incident, Lauber disappeared, expelled for smoking a cigarette. He died of liver cancer in 2004.
In defending himself, Romney told Fox News that he "had no idea what that individual's sexual orientation might be."
But that misses the point.
|Romney now
By wearing his hair in a feminine manner, Lauber had violated the antifemininity norm that is part of the bedrock of traditional masculinity, which apparently dominated at the elite Cranbrook School.
Romney's verbal denigration of another former classmate, also a closeted homosexual, fits this same pattern. When Gary Hummel tried to speak up in English class, Romney shouted "atta girl!" at him, Hummel told the Post.
So, Romney's assaultive and bullying conduct was not so much to punish Lauber and Hummel for being gay as for being different, for having the audacity not to conform to his chest-thumping notions of manliness. This contempt for insufficiently masculine men is a core feature of our culture, helping to explain Romney's self-righteousness and his facile dismissal of his harmful conduct as innocent hijinks.


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At various and altogether different moments, I have been both energized and demotivated by the parental colloquialism: you make your own luck. Embarrassingly, I am particularly enthralled by the phrase, even ready to pass it along with a wink and an encouraging pat on the back, when things appear to be going well. Honest reflection lends a needed dosage of sobriety to the most optimistic moments. As much as we would like to believe otherwise, the truth is that often success stories have, my own most certainly included, simple old-fashioned good fortune to thank for a significant portion of a positive result and not our own ability or special genius.
In general, especially in the world of strategy deployment, it is difficult to distinguish skill from luck. Too often human nature assumes that the successful must certainly also be particularly adroit. Society reinforces this tendency, where there is great fortune there is also a slew of parties waiting in line to reflexively heap the successful with a plethora of adulates. Similarly, it is prudent to assign pessimism to the view that failure necessarily represents ineptitude.
Timing, unanticipated developments, right place/right time and the over-arching "luck" factor are several of the terms a layman may use to express the variables at play when identifying skill or a lack thereof. The reality is that the work necessary and a lack of ultimate finality in isolating extenuating variables means the intuitive assignment of skill to success runs rampant and vice versa. Nonetheless, it is the pursuit of the sophisticated allocator not to draw causality or assume repeatability where it does not belong. In the world of investing, even a fraction of helpful information can improve one's investment decision and sophisticated investors are in the business of trying to accumulate as many data points as possible.
When it comes to how you describe your strategy, how it is deployed and how you intend to continue to develop your approach, the sophisticated investor is looking for clues that will help in determining whether you are truly talented or exceptionally fortunate. This third of twelve articles attempts to diagnose what, exactly, is meant by "strategy" or "style drift." It turns out that the answer is a delicate balance that has everything to do with determining whether you are truly good at what you do or, well, just lucky.
What is "style" or "strategy drift?"
Strategy drift is cause for concern when a manager decides that how they approached trading in the past is now wrong and how they are thinking about their strategy currently is correct. "Strategy" is not only a reference to the logic behind buy/sell signals but a comprehensive term that encompasses signal deployment, data mining, risk management, ongoing research, trade execution, infrastructure and firm development.
Style drift is not a function of how comprehensively a manager changes their conviction. If a small portion of the program is discussed in a way that flags strategy drift, it is a concern worthy of investigation. If the entire strategy package is being altered it will more than likely be cause for termination or at the least impetus for an investor to request a pause to trading.
Examples of "drift"
- A systematic manager inserting discretion or vice versa without defensible explanation of the development's evolution;
- Representing an edge (i.e. energy specialist or unique data management) and deploying new strategies that have no relationship to a stated edge;
- Halting previous approaches that were sold as exploiting your unique edge;
- Swapping models, risk management or other differentiating strategy characteristics based on a different philosophical intuitive view of markets.
Using "strategy drift" as an excuse
Perhaps even more concerning than drift in approach, is the manager who defends a lack of advancement as a desire to avoid the red flag of style drift. The reality is that the lucky achiever will invariably be, given a long enough leash and enough time, a recipient of opposing misfortunate. Indeed, what has worked so well in the past will eventually not work as well in the future. The implication is clear, generally speaking, investors expect their selected managers to tirelessly work to consistently improve.


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
The Great Lakes Hurricane of 1996
However, I would have never believed an actual hurricane had ever formed over the Great Lakes. But apparently, it happened. In 1996, the "Hurroncane" appeared in September.
Here is what the National Weather Service said about it:
The first likeness was its timing, forming over the Great Lakes right at the height of the typical hurricane season, September 11-15th, 1996. What started as a typical core-cold 500 MB low pressure system evolved into a warm-core system as it settled over the relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes, in particular, Lake Huron. The low pressure system actually had moved past Lake Huron but then retrograded, or was "drawn back", to the relatively warm waters of Lake Huron. (Similar to the tropics, the Great Lakes usually reach their warmest water temperatures late August into mid September.) The storm then deepened and intensified at the lower levels of the atmosphere compared to aloft, typical of a warm-core low. It is believed that the warm waters of Lake Huron and associated low level instability over the lake were, to a large extent, the major contributing factors in this storm's evolution. The storm went on to form a broad cyclonic circulation, including the "spiral bands and eye", typically seen in hurricanes! At one point, the cyclone produced tropical storm force winds (39 - 73 mph) and some of the spiral bands even had rainfall exceeding 10 cm (better than four inches), causing some flooding.
So I guess hurricanes are possible in the Great lakes and one may form again. I am sure if another one appears it will be pointed to as proof of global warming even though this has happened before. I hope my home is insured for hurricanes. I am not sure if our Great Lakes insurance policies include a clause for hurricanes.
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- Ed Darrell said...
It's not "proof" of global warming, but isn't it evidence of increased instability in the atmosphere, which is a predicted result of global warming?
1996 wasn't exactly the ice age. It's two years off of 1998, one of the warmest years ever, and a recent peak heat year.
In any case, it's a fascinating story. Thanks for posting it.
Both global warming and global cooling would lead to increased atmospheric instability. I wish NOAA would quit moving those dang thermometers!


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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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- speedyrabbit said...
A happy Bunny is a great thing!xx Speedy
- September 25, 2013 at 10:43 PM
- dorrie17 said...
I need some advice about my bunny. Xena the Warrior Bun has decided that she doesn't want her home cleaned. The minute I try to pick up a bit of soiled hay or paper the ears go back, she growls and it's all teeth and claws. The rest of the time she's a real snuggle bunny and jumps into my lap for hugs. What's going on?
- September 26, 2013 at 4:40 AM
- SixBunnies said...
dorrie17 ... she is a bunner ... they do not like their stuff messed with ... at all. She's trying to tell you and can't figure out why you are not getting it! You will probably have to put her in temporary digs whil cleaning her area ... then put her back and let her stomp and foot flick to her heart's desire, while you are a safe distance away ...
- September 26, 2013 at 8:06 AM
- SixBunnies said...
Main rule of bunners: everything belongs to them and don't mess with it...
- September 26, 2013 at 8:07 AM
- SixBunnies said...
Racer, I like your home! It is very nice! I'm glad you have a loving lap to hang out on, too!
- September 26, 2013 at 8:10 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Dorrie, This probably isn't about International Rabbit Day. Thanks for the heads up, but we were really lucky, the bunns at the shelter told us it was their day and only they got to celebrate. I remember someone using the expression "dangerous lunatic." S/he said that when s/he cleaned her/his bunny's cage, her/his bunny looked and responded as though s/he was a "dangerous lunatic." I think your Princess must also be very territorial. Does anyone know if it would be better if Xena couldn't see Dorrie while she was doing any of this?
- September 26, 2013 at 9:05 AM
- Crafty Green Poet said...
Looks like you have everything you need there, Racer!
- September 26, 2013 at 11:18 PM
- Michelle May-The Raspberry Rabbits said...
I'd be pretty content too boy. Snuggle time is the best.
- September 27, 2013 at 3:35 AM


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If they ever build a bed bug hall of fame, there will definitely be a spot in the trophy case for 248 McKibben St in Brooklyn, the most-reported address in the New York area, with 33 reports. Its sister building at 255 McKibben has ten reports.
The bedbug problem in this building (and its neighbors) is so severe it's received repeated media coverage, in Gothamist, Gawker, and even a Wikipedia article (which does not mention the bed bug problem).
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The Far West Side represents a very large, heterodox slice of Chicago life ranging from some of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to the solidly middle-class bungalow belt, with some strong immigrant communities in between. The Garfield Park Conservatory is a lovely and easy excursion from downtown for any visitor to Chicago, but beyond this one attraction, the Far West Side is untrodden by the camera-wielding tourist masses of the Loop and Near North. Pat yourself on the back if you make it this far into Chicago — you are really seeing the city.
Garfield Park is the Far West Side's most notorious neighborhood for violent crime and visitors with low tolerance for urban grit should probably keep their distance. But on the other hand, the park from which the neighborhood derives its name is one of the city's best laid out and it contains a major attraction in the form of the Garfield Park Conservatory, in addition to a gorgeous fieldhouse. Don't be afraid to visit the park itself — there is an L stop hovering right over the conservatory and the park is quite safe.
South Lawndale is the heart of Chicago's enormous Mexican community and is a great escape from Chicago's downtown. Although mostly residential, the long "downtown" strip (known as Little Village, or La Villita) along 26th Street between Sacramento and Pulaski is a vibrant, smile-filled strip jam-packed with Mexican musical instruments, weekend festivals, bars, Virgin Mary towels, media-shops, and (most importantly) taquerías. As a matter of fact, La Villita feels like not just an escape from Chicago, but from the United States generally — it's certainly as close to Mexico as you can get in the Midwest.
North Lawndale bears little resemblance to South Lawndale. Unlike its very safe neighbor, North Lawndale is still recovering from very high levels of violent crime in the 1970s–1980s. During this time, the northern section of the neighborhood, known as K-Town for its countless streets beginning with the letter K, was jokingly referred to as "Kill-Town" for its violence problem. The neighborhood has some history to its name, but fairly little remains to interest a visitor by way of shopping or sights. Sears used to have its headquarters here and you might be interested in driving by Chicago's first "Sears Tower" (and other gargantuan Sears buildings) which the city is now restoring in hopes of rejuvenating the long-impoverished community around Homan Square.
Humboldt Park sits between gentrifying Logan Square and blighted Garfield Park and, somehow, here the twain do meet. The neighborhood has for some time been a cultural stronghold of Chicago's Puerto Rican community, centered around the long commercial strip on Division Street. The association between Division Street and Puerto Rican Chicagoans is pretty firmly cemented in the minds of most Chicagoans owing to the Division Street riots of 1966. The riots began during a Puerto Rican community parade, as a result of an economic downturn and high tensions between Chicago's Puerto Ricans and the police (and neighboring Polish-American communities) that came to a head after the Chicago Police shot a young Puerto Rican man in the neighborhood. Any legacy of violence, however, is long gone and visitors should feel comfortable visiting Division Street during the day to soak up the Puerto Rican vibes.
Humboldt Park's populace is diverse, but awkwardly unintegrated. Its Puerto Rican community now sits between the less affluent black community to the west and southwest, and a new, burgeoning white community seeking lower rents than in the neighborhoods to the east and north. The eponymous park is a lovely spot to observe the neighborhood's contrasts — between the three communities who flock there to enjoy the big lagoon, playgrounds, and fields, but never quite mix socially.
Austin is a fairly unique, albeit not terribly interesting section of the city. It is the largest single Chicago community area in terms of area and population, but it sits at the extreme periphery of Chicago life along the western border of the city, having only been annexed in 1899. The jewel in this neighborhood's crown is Columbus Park, considered the best work by Prairie School landscape artist Jens Jensen. The park has a nice lagoon and 9 holes of golf and is just off the Eisenhower Expressway (which was built over the southern end of the original park). The neighborhood is overwhelmingly African-American and middle class, and can't quite make up its mind whether it is urban or suburban.
Belmont Cragin, Hermosa, and Montclare have a somewhat mixed identity between the Far West Side and the Far Northwest Side, as the residents of these areas are a mix of what you would find in the overwhelmingly Polish-American neighborhoods to the north and the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American neighborhoods directly to the south. The neighborhoods are experiencing a huge influx of Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans trading up for nicer houses from Pilsen and Humboldt Park. For the most part, these are quiet, residential communities lacking significant tourist draws.
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The Forest Park branch of the CTA Blue Line runs from the Loop through the Near West Side and on into the Far West, with stops in South and North Lawndale.
The Pink Line runs through the Near West Side and Pilsen and heads to South Lawndale.
The Green Line runs to the Far West Side, with a stop in Garfield Park (Conservatory) and on to Oak Park across the city border. This is the oldest part of the CTA system, although the tracks and stations were renovated in the late 1990s. Looking through the window of the train gives you a picture of a different part of Chicago. On the trip from the Loop, you might also notice the gentrification spreading west from downtown — there are startlingly rapid changes from gentrified to decayed neighborhoods.
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The CTA runs several bus routes through the West Side:
By car
The Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) is the major thoroughfare crossing the Far West Side, although travelers along the historic Route 66 will pass through the area as well, on Ogden Avenue, which leads from downtown. If you are going to Garfield Park or Humboldt Park, the main I-290 exits are at Pulaski, Kedzie, and Western. For Little Village, it's usually faster, though, to take the Pulaski or Kedzie Avenue exits from the Stevenson Expressway instead.
The Garfield Park Conservatory is the one real sightseeing draw on the Far West. The Sears Tower is quite interesting as well, but it's hard to get to without a car, and the old Sears buildings are technically not open to visitors.
Events & festivals
For the most part, if you are out shopping in the Far West Side of Chicago, you somewhere got lost. The one exception being the endless Little Village strip along 26th St, which is after the Magnificent Mile, the largest commercial strip in the city in terms of revenue. The miles of colorful, bargain knickknack shops along the Little Village strip make for very fun window shopping, and can produce kitschy souvenirs that look like you took a trip to a different country.
The Far West has virtually no high-end dining options, but if you are fine with spending less, a ton of great food experiences await. Little Village boasts some of the best authentic Mexican food in the city, Garfield Park and Austin have some fine down-home cooking, and Humboldt Park has a veritable monopoly on Chicago's Puerto Rican fare.
Most of Chicago's bar hoppers couldn't locate the Far West Side on a map, but if you are looking for something different, there are some real gems. And rest assured you will successfully evade the Lincoln Park frat-boy crowd.
Options are few in these parts; if you are looking for cheaper accommodations away from the city center, there are better options elsewhere. If you are looking to stay on the Far West specifically, you might also consider hotels in the neighboring suburbs of Oak Park, Berwyn and Cicero.
The following libraries offer free public internet access:
Stay safe
The usual advice given by Chicagoans for staying safe on the Far West Side is to simply stay away from the Far West Side, given its notorious reputation for violent crime. Garfield Park (the neighborhood, not the park) and much of North Lawndale do their best to live up to this reputation, but the reality across the district is quite varied. The northern neighborhoods around Belmont-Cragin rank among some of the safest in the city. While certain residential areas of South Lawndale can be a little edgy at night, visitors should have no worries walking 26th St, night or day — you would be more likely to run into trouble on Navy Pier.
On the other hand, if you are visiting North Lawndale, Garfield Park, or much of Austin, usual rules for blighted urban neighborhoods apply: know where you're going, stick to well-lit main streets, arrange/plan transportation in advance, and don't leave anything visible (even trash) in a parked car. Anything you'd want to see in Garfield Park is fortunately located within one block of the Conservatory L stop along main streets, although you still might want to avoid walking back to the stop after dark if you are by yourself. If you are visiting any of the sights in North Lawndale or Austin, it's best to travel by car.
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* [http://www.usscouts.org/advance/boyscout/denali.html Denali Award] on the U.S. Scouting Service Project site.
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Award requirements
The Denali Award is the highest award in Varsity Scouting. Denali is the name American Indians gave Mount McKinley in central Alaska.
The Denali Award is presented to Varsity Scouts team's youth members who have already earned the Varsity Scout Letter.
- 1. Be a registered Varsity Scout team member.
- 2. Advance at least one rank in the Boy Scout program (or earn a Palm for those who are already Eagle Scouts).
- 3. Hold leadership positions in a Varsity Scout team for at least six months.
- 4. a) While serving as team captain or program manager, act as primary leader on at least two activities. Program managers should choose activities in their the field of emphasis. Team captains may serve as primary leader any of the five fields of emphasis.
- 4. b) While serving as program manager or team captain, demonstrate shared leadership skills in supporting roles in each of the three remaining fields of emphasis.
- 5. Satisfy to the team captain that you know and live by the Varsity Scout Pledge.
- 6. Complete a progress review by a review board that
includes a district or council representative andis lead by the advancement program manager.
Source: 2000 Varsity Scout Guidebook (34827A)
- 1. Only Varsity Scouts are eligible to earn the Denali Award. Boy Scouts registered in a troop's Venture patrol may earn the Venture Patrol Letter but not the Denali Award.
- 2. As of 2007, there is no knot badge for the Denali Award.
- 3. Council or district representation at the Denali progress review (board of review) is no longer required.
Help with these requirements
Print, trim and fold scorecard for a youth team member to retain in his possession, and keep track of his award requirements and progress:
- Denali Award Scorecard (186K PDF) BSA 2001.
- Denali Award Scorecard (39K PDF) Modified, Team 336 Omaha, NE (Rev. 6/06).
Advancement records
- Varsity Scout Individual History Report (45K PDF) Keep track of Varsity Scout letter and Denali Award progress dates and events.
See also
External links
- Denali Award on the U.S. Scouting Service Project site.
Boy Scouting ranks: Scout • Tenderfoot • Second Class • First Class • Star Scout • Life Scout • Eagle Scout Award
Varsity Scouting awards: Varsity Scout Letter • Denali Award