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The new year kicks off with a strong clinic and events lineup including stars such as Dave Weckl, Carl Allen, Chester Thompson and more.
Got Clinic news to submit? Send it to Cookie Williams at DRUM!
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- Jan 23rd/Brian Fonzaglia/Palm Beach Central High School/James/561.304.1033/Wellington/FL
- Jan 26th/Garey Williams/Mills Music/Bill/360.795.5451/Monroe/WA
- Jan 27th/Rich Holly/Univ of Central Missouri/Michael/660.543.4681/Warrensburg/MO
- Jan 28th/Chester Thompson/Long & McQuade/Tyler/403.244.5555/Calgary/AB
- Jan 30th/Carl Allen/Wisconsin Day of Perc - Hudson H S/Ryan/715.377.3800/Hudson/WI
- Jan 30th/Calvin Napper/Word of Promise World Outreach/Percy/704.618.0145/Charlotte/NC
- Jan 31st/Steve Ferrone/LA Music Academy/Mike/626.568.8850/Pasadena/CA
- Feb 2nd & 3rd/Derico Watson/Berklee College of Music/John/617.747.8328/Boston/MA
- Feb 2nd-4th/Michael Spiro/Univ of Akron/Larry/330.872.6939/Akron/OH
- Feb 4th-6th/John Santos/Sitka Jazz Festival/Terry/907.747.3653/Sitka/AK
- Feb 6th/Greg Giannascoli/NY Day of Perc - Sayville High School/Anthony/516.909.6988/West Sayville/NY
- Feb 6th/Greg Giannascoli/NJ Day of Perc - Fanwood High School/Vincent/908.889.8600/Scotch Plains/NJ
- Feb 15th/Dan Smithiger/McKendree Univ Day of Perc/Daniel/618.979.4968/Lebanon/IL
- Feb 16th & 17th/Bob Becker/Univ of Wisconsin/Anthony/608.263.1886/Madison/WI
- Feb 19th/Dave Weckl/Peaks Jazz Festival/Caleb/801.860.0840/Orem/UT
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- Feb 27th/Brian Zator/North Texas Perc Festival - Forney High School/Mario/972.564.3890/Forney/TX
- Feb 27th/Brian West/North Texas Perc Festival - Forney High School/Mario/972.564.3890/Forney/TX
- Feb 28th/Zoro/Campbell's Morrell Music/Brandon/423.929.1083/Johnson City/TN
- Feb 3rd/Mark Schulman/AB Music - Adams - Ittervoort/The Netherlands
- Feb 4th/Mark Schulman/AB Music - Feedback - Rotterdam/The Netherlands
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- Feb 16th/Pete Zimmer/Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road/London/United Kingdom
- Feb 16th/Cajon 1 - Franz Schubert Konservatorium Wien/676.6900712/Vienna, Austria
- Feb 17th/Pete Zimmer/Trinity College of Music, attn. Simon/London/020 8305 4370/United Kingdom
- Feb 18th/Pete Zimmer/Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place/Birmingham/United Kingdom
- Feb 19th/Pete Zimmer/Leeds College of Music/Leeds/07590 683949/United Kingdom
- Feb 20th/Carmine Appice/Tam Tam Drum Show/Montlucon/France
- Feb 21st/Carmine Appice/Musique and Music/Nevers/France
- Feb 23rd/Cajon 1 - Franz Schubert Konservatorium Wien/676.6900712/Vienna, Austria
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Hi Nick!
Yes, this would be a good idea since almost everyone and everything is online these days. And because it's online, anyone who has been to a restaurant with an online suggestion box would be able to post their thoughts on the restaurant. I believe this can provide valuable feedback not only to the owners but to those who want to try out the restaurant as well.
What do you think?
Exactly that's why we creating FeedbackJar!
A lot of times customers have specific questions for the restaurant. Having an online public suggestion box allows everyone to chime in and share ideas.
The web product should contain some structured questions to be effective. Seek both feedback as well as recommendations.
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Business owners in a three-mile police jurisdiction around the city of Montgomery are threatening a lawsuit against the city if a sales tax being imposed on them isn't repealed, the Montgomery Advertiser reports.
The group of business owners want the 1.75 percent sales tax removed, the newspaper reports. The tax was levied in 2008, but the city only recently began enforcing it.


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Settle a fight within my family (math nerds needed)
can someone plz side with my sister and explain to me how this equals 13-because I thought that anything multiplied by 0=0.
My DH went to college-he was a math genius and he's saying it's 0 while my sister who's barely passing her senior year is insisting it's 13.
Now I fully understand PEMDAS and all-but not everyone will remember 20/30yrs later after graduating hs to do such a thing. If you just sail across the equation-you'd end up with 0. I personally don't care either way-but it's funny watching a 31 yr old and a 19yo argue over such petty shit.
It is 0. It's only 13 if you're doing it wrong.
*Oh, yeah, unless I was totally doing it wrong! You do times the 0 first so that would make it 13.
Edit 2 (lol) - I'm thinking 12 is right. I noticed the subtraction sign the first time but added the number of 1's wrong. *Obviously not a math nerd here.
Your sister is correct. This is basic math. You always have to follow the order of operations.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Bronx man's motion to set aside his conviction for running his car into three cops last year in Mariners Harbor has slammed the brakes on his sentencing.
Ishmael Callistro's sentencing hearing, slated for Thursday in state Supreme Court, St. George, was adjourned to Nov. 1.
Callistro, 41, potentially faces a minimum of 12 years to life to a maximum of 25 years to life in prison for his conviction three months ago stemming from a wild incident on Aug. 2. of last year.
Defense lawyer Mario F. Gallucci moved to vacate the verdict, contending his client's conviction should not stand because the drug charges, which were the basis for his arrest, were dropped during trial.
The episode was set in motion when Staten Island Narcotics Bureau officers observed the defendant making a transaction with another man in the parking lot of a CVS pharmacy on Forest Avenue. Callistro then walked to his car.
Two police cars boxed in Callistro's car, while additional officers moved in and arrested the other man.
Officers approached Callistro, whose door was opened, and the suspect refused to get out.
He threw the car into reverse with the open door knocking into two officers. He then gunned the vehicle forward and rammed into the side of the pharmacy, knocking several bricks from the building, police said.
Callistro shifted back into reverse, hitting the two original cops again, and injuring a third officer who came to their aid.
The defendant raced away, blowing through red lights, until he crashed into parked cars on Grandview Avenue and Continental Place, prosecutors said. Callistro bolted on foot through a playground and was grabbed by the third officer, who, despite serious shoulder and hip injuries, had pursued him.
That officer will need a hip replacement, according to prosecutors.
Callistro was convicted July 19 of three counts of second-degree assault, along with four counts of criminal mischief and one count each of reckless endangerment and marijuana possession.
Authorities said he had marijuana on his person at the time of his arrest.
Gallucci said prosecutors dismissed the top count against Callistro, third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, when the jury stalemated on the charge. Absent the drug charge, there was no foundation for the arrest, the defense contends.
Assistant District Attorneys Jennifer Cilia and Tuesday Muller-Mondi are prosecuting the case.
Callistro could be sentenced as a mandatory persistent felon if his motion is denied, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. That means the sentence will be harsher than if he was a first- or second-time offender.
Callistro was released from prison in 2007 after serving a sentence of seven and a half to 15 years for attempted assault in connection with the shooting of Jeffrey Maddrey, an off-duty police officer.
Maddrey, then 25, was shot in the left wrist on June 6, 1993, during gunplay outside the Richmond Terrace Houses in New Brighton.
Prosecutors had charged Callistro, then living in Mariners Harbor, with attempted murder. Maddrey testified that Callistro pegged 14 shots at him after the cop and another man, James Hazel, argued over a woman.
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The next opportunity to rid your household of toxic materials is June 7, when the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency will hold a hazardous waste drop-off at Ley Creek Transfer Station.
You can register for the event, which is 8 a.m. to noon, here.
By the way, OCRRA no longer accepts latex paint. You're supposed to let the can dry out, after which you can put it in the garbage. More detailed instructions here.


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Review on The Hemlock Stone & Dragon
Following a major refit, this pub/restaurant a few miles west of Nottingham has re-surfaced as a contemporary venue with a restaurant menu showcasing South East Asia cuisine. The Hemlock Stone now comprises a big open-plan bar with lots of polished wood, plus a dining room decorated in deep rich tones with comfortable banquettes and modern-classic furnishings. When the weather is warm you can dine al fresco in the lovely garden.
Enjoy the Dragon's dishes offering a combination of Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian cuisine cooked to authentic recipes. Apart from a la carte options you can indulge in a tasting menu or tempting banquets.
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At 4:19 p.m. a report of loose dogs was made at 2911 Pheasant Run Drive in Blackman Township.
At 9:55 p.m. a roll-over accident with no injuries was made at N. U.S. 127 and W. I 94 in Leoni Township.
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Apr 2007 Palestinian "Prisoner Day"
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A Tully man who admitted defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of nearly $393,000 in worker's compensation payments was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison.
David P. Vandeusen, 56, of 1822 Route 11, also was ordered to pay restitution. In 1991, while working as a mail handler, Vandeusen claimed he injured his back on the job. He started receiving about $2,100 a month in benefits, which continued for 15 years.
But while Vandeusen was claiming to be disabled and that the payments were his only source of income, he was working at least three other jobs, federal prosecutors said.
Investigators determined that he was selling cars for his wife's dealership, Double D Auto Sales,
in Tully, and was making money from a driveway-sealing company and a sign-making company.
Each year, he signed sworn statements indicating he was making no other money except the compensation payments, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Southwick.
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A 39-year-old North Bergen man is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on June 25 while acting in a "supervisory capacity" of the girl, according to a criminal complaint.
Ivan Melia, of Union Turnpike, is charged with committing aggravated sexual assault, child abuse, aggravated criminal sexual contact, and endangering the welfare of a child, the complaint states.
Officials said the defendant is the husband of a friend of the victim's mother.
Melia turned himself in to North Bergen police on July 20.
The defendant appeared yesterday afternoon in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City before Judge Kelly Austin via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny.
Hudson County Superior Court Judge Adam Jacobs had already set Melia's bail at $250,000 cash or bond and ordered him not to have any contact with the 14-year-old.


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Zacharie visited Disneyland last month with his grandparents. His first visit.
When he came home and showed me his autograph book, and as I flipped through the photos my parents had taken, I realized how little things have changed in nearly 40 years at the happiest place on earth.
Main Street looked the same in California as it did in Florida nearly 40 years earlier. Minnie was still cute, Donald still has no pants, and Goofy is still a ham.
It's a land caught in time. Cameras, on the other hand, have vastly improved.
I still have the scrapbook that my grandmother made for that visit in 1975. She hand wrote a diary for me every night explaining what she did and saved everything from the airline ticket receipt to motel pamphlets. You can read part of that original diary here.
Here's a side-by-side look at at Disney then and now from my trip and Zacharie's.
That Was Then 1 of 11
That was then, this is now. Some things changed, many don't. Scroll through this look at the similarities between my first visit to Disney World in 1975, and my son's visit to Disneyland in 2013.
Main Street 2 of 11
Waiting for the parade on Main Street is a right has changed little.
Pool Time 3 of 11
Pool time is mandatory on a Disney visit, no matter which year.
Merry Go Round 4 of 11
How wild is it that both my son and I chose the white horse 38 years apart?
Bed time 5 of 11
In 1975 it was donuts and orange juice for breakfast in bed. In 2013, it's some iPad time before night night.
Donald 6 of 11
He's still not wearing any pants.
Minnie 7 of 11
Cute and friendly never goes out of style.
Tom Sawyer 8 of 11
Kids can climb the fort, grandparents stay below.
Goofy 9 of 11
As always. My photo is terrible from 1975, but he's pawing all over my face, in 2013, he mugged alongside my son in much the same way.
Autopia 10 of 11
I swear those are the exact same cars as opening day with a little paint job.
Admission 11 of 11
Back in 1975, Disney World operated with a ticket system for rides. You bought tickets once you got in depending on what you wanted to do. The admission for 2 days was only $9.25. In 2013, admission to Disneyland is now more than $90 for 1 day to visit 1 park.
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The Lesson of the Shiny (Costly) Penny
Emergency managers may have to change their core components to use social media
Late last week Bloomberg BusinessWeek published an article on current discussions about the U.S. production and distribution of the one cent "penny" piece. The article referenced a 2008 New Yorker article that stated the United States loses 1.4¢ on each penny it produces. This results in a cost of $1.5 billion to U.S. citizens over the next five year period. Additional arguments were made that due to inflation and other rising costs, the penny should simply be eliminated.
This however is an example of being distracted by the (pun intended) shiny penny. To their credit, President Barack Obama's administration has directed that the U.S. Treasury have the flexibility starting in 2013 to change the make up of the penny to produce it more cheaply. Rather than argue about the philosophical purpose of the most insignificant component of our currency system, a quick and simple solution was eventually identified that ultimately will save time and money.
Emergency managers learning about social media could learn a lot from this lesson. We often get caught up in complex issues about the use of social media during emergencies and disasters and create weak and artificial objections that in the end are the shiny penny. They ignore the real issues simply because we are not comfortable with changing the core of how we work and respond. Change our components and we're still emergency managers, but in the end we may be more efficient, effective, and reliable for our communities.


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Cranberry Sauce with Ginger and Clove
Find out how fresh cranberries always beat canned!
- Yield: Makes 2 cups
Source: Everyday Food, November 2011
- 1 bag (12 ounces) fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1/2 cup packed dark-brown sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
In a medium saucepan, bring cranberries, sugar, water, ginger, and cloves to a boil over high. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until cranberries have burst and sauce is slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
Cook's Notes
Refrigerate in an airtight container, up to 1 week. Bring to room temperature before serving.
The spices in this tangy sauce also go well with ham. Make a double batch and freeze half for Christmas.


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EHS HALL OF FAME: Hornet team rushed into history book, will be inducted Friday
The 1969 Enumclaw High football team can point to a healthy handful of noteworthy accomplishments. Under the direction of coach Leroy Babbitt, the squad posted a 9-1 overall record, captured the school's first Seamount League championship and finished with a No. 3 ranking in the statewide, postseason polls.
Now, the high-achieving group can add one more milestone. Friday night, the team will be honored with induction into the EHS Athletic Hall of Fame. The ceremony will come during halftime of the Hornet boys basketball game in Chuck Smith Gymnasium.
In the fall of 1969, the team appeared ready for a breakout season.
"Everyone had the feeling that Enumclaw was going to have the best season in the history of Enumclaw High School," was printed in the school yearbook. "The team didn't let us down, by any means."
Starting with a home-field, 26-6 victory over Mt. Si, the Hornets were off and running. The only hiccup was a Week 5, 14-6 loss to the rival White River Hornets. Following that, it was nothing but victories against foes like Foster, North Thurston, Tumwater and Tahoma – teams that made up the Seamount of that era.
In all, the '69 Hornets scored 284 points in 10 games and allowed just 44. Along the way, the EHS defense registered four shutouts; White River was the only nemesis to put double-figures on the scoreboard.
A standout on that squad was Tom Poe Jr., one of nine Hornets to eventually haul in postseason honors. While he was the only member of the team to play beyond high school, Poe figures there were three of four others who could have successfully made the leap to the collegiate level.
But while the talent level was high, Poe said it was the team's cohesiveness that made a world of difference.
"We all became different things – loggers, some in the military, some businessmen – but it's amazing how common our goal was. We had a common desire to win," he said.
And Poe doesn't hesitate to give Babbitt all the credit for the team-first mentality. The veteran coach had a way of bringing his players together as a unit, he said – even if it meant sometimes donning a helmet and shoulder pads and mixing it up with the team.
"We thought that was a great thing," Poe said, recalling the good-sized coach popping pads with his team.
The squad's collective success didn't go without notice when it came time for individual honors to be passed out.
Both Poe and Dave Van Hoof were first-team, all-Seamount selections on both sides of the ball. Poe was chosen as both a running back and linebacker while Van Hoof was named as both an offensive and defensive end. Also picking up first-team accolades were offensive guard Rick Bathum, safety Dan Wakefield and defensive tackle Carl Younkers. Receiving second-team notice were Bruce Klassen, Tony Connors, Terry Adrian and Dennis Crowell.
Wakefield's honor capped a season in which he shattered the Seamount League record by intercepting nine passes. Poe, who went on to play for Washington State University and saw time in the Canadian Football League, broke several Seamount records by scoring 19 touchdowns, rushing for 1,561 yards and piling up 1,637 yards of total offense. He scored 132 points, ranking third in the state.
Bathum said the coaching staff was top-notch and meshed with the players' skill set.
As an offensive lineman on the '69 team, he has the highest regard for his O-line coach, Shelly Thiel.
"He was the best coach I ever saw," Bathum said.
Kind words also flow for offensive coordinator Wes Hansen.
"He was a genius," Bathum said, recalling that Hansen had taken two teams to a state championship while coaching in North Dakota. "He knew just what to call in the right situation."
Bathum also echoes Poe's sentiments about team unity and – to make the point crystal clear – relates a tale more than four decades in the making.
Of the five core members of the offensive line, left guard Ron Moeller had slipped out of sight. A two-year hunt revealed he was working as a logger in a small, remote North Idaho town. Last summer, Bathum and three other members of the 1969 O-line met in Oregon and, on motorcycles, trekked to the far reaches of the Idaho panhandle for a reunion.
The five carried on as though they had seen each other just the day before, he said.
That's not a surprise, Bathum said, since the successful team was built on chemistry and camaraderie.
"We treated each other like brothers," he said. "I was blessed to be a part of that team. It was a lot of fun."
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SNOQUALMIE - Snoqualmie Middle School (SMS) football and basketball coach Brad Hillard knows that a year this good does not come around often.
Hillard's football team went undefeated this season, as did his boys' basketball squad. His girls' basketball team lost only one game. Overall, Hillard compiled a 24-1 record.
Hillard, as modest as a successful coach can be, would be the first to point out that his athletes were the ones who produced the successful seasons.
"The coach can yell and scream all you want," Hillard said, "but the kids have to have the passion to compete. The kids in this valley, when we play these schools we have a disadvantage in numbers. These kids either take that role 'not being expected to dominate' as something to help inspire them to beat these other teams."
That inspiration helped the Eagles to three league championships this year.
"My two basketball teams, they just refused to lose," Hillard said. "They didn't really care about who they were playing. When the going got tough, they just had that competitive desire to not lose. It's a testament to these kids in this valley."
They are kids that, playing for a smaller school in the Seamount and Foothills leagues, should be underdogs. Hillard once used Snoqualmie's underdog status as a means to motivate. Now it is defense of championships that motivates the Eagles.
"My philosophy starts with the kids and ends with the kids," Hillard said. "In between you try to teach some fundamentals and get them to reach their potentials. In the end, it's going to be the kids that either rise to the challenge or not."
Hillard, who played a season of basketball for the University of Washington in the days of the Pac-8 before knee injuries hampered his career, remembers the lessons of his coaches and mentors in order to relate with his athletes.
"I think the passion that I had as a kid playing the sport and competing as a kid carry into my coaching," Hillard said. "The kids can sense that through the way I interact with them, playing against them, or in the huddles or in the timeouts. What comes across is that passion I had as a kid and the enthusiasm."
It is enthusiasm that has earned the coach the respect of many more than just his athletes.
"Brad is a very relational teacher and coach with his students," SMS Principal Ruth Moen said. "He has goals with them and he hooks sports into real positive character traits."
Hillard also teaches math, science and reading at SMS. He admits that juggling his coaching duties and his teaching duties is sometimes tricky.
"It's tough to balance the time," Hillard said. "You have to devote time to each and try to do it appropriately. There are times when you have stacks of papers on your desk because you have a big football game coming up."
Hillard struggles to keep his football plays off of the whiteboard in his class. He makes a concerted effort to keep his mind off the upcoming game when there is school business to be done. It's a challenge that Hillard uses to drive himself toward success.
Moen sees traits that make for both a good coach and a teacher.
"He's passionate," Moen said. "One of his favorite sayings is that emotion drives learning. He really taps into that relational part of the student. It's not all about winning, but it is about being your best, doing your best and being a team player. He just has a great relationship with the kids and is always supportive of their behavior and their respect and their diligence."
With such success, it seems as though a higher level of coaching would look attractive to the 10-year coach. Hillard, though, is happy coaching the Eagles. While he holds the utmost respect for high-school coaches, he simply can't rationalize the time commitment required to coach at a higher level.
"I enjoy the interaction with the kids in this level," Hillard said. "It's a little more emotional out there. I get to see what kind of character the kids have. To see them at that level, that's what makes coaching fun."
And while Hillard manages to have fun while coaching, he is also making impressions that will last a long time.
"Three championships," Hillard said with a voice of accomplishment. "For these kids to do that, that's pretty unique. I tell them that now, but I'm not sure they have a clue. They'll look back on this year and it will be something that they never forget.
"And I won't, either."
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As the city kicks off its third traffic ticket blitz in a month's time, the NYPD's transportation chief say he hopes for a future where the police won't need crackdowns to keep motorists from breaking the rules of the road.
"Hopefully, we will have everyone onboard and we won't have to issue summonses, but for now, we'll continue to do enforcement throughout the city, including Staten Island," NYPD Chief of Transportation Thomas Chan said Monday, as he attended a West Brighton luncheon honoring the borough's Police Officers of the Year.
On Sunday night, the NYPD announced a three-week crackdown on bad drivers -- targeting speeding, passing through red lights, driving while using a cellphone, driving while texting, making improper turns, disobeying traffic signs and failing to yield to pedestrians.
Chan said the effort is part of the city's "Vision Zero" traffic safety plan, and that officers will focus on the two most collision-prone spots in each of the city's 77 police precincts, working in unmarked cars at all hours of the day and night.
"Quite often, the violators will not see them coming," Chan said.
Staten Island's 121st Precinct issued more summonses than any other precinct in the city during the last traffic crackdown - a week-long effort that started on May 26 and ended June 1.
Still, Chan wouldn't say that Staten Islanders were more prone to bad driving than motorists in other boroughs.
"In Staten Island, our public here commute a great deal by motor vehicles, so it would be appropriate that our officers will be enforcing the rules and regulations here," he said. "And we certainly seek the public's cooperation, that they don't speed, that they don't go through red lights, and things of that nature."
The last crackdown resulted in 725 tickets on Staten Island -- 466 in the borough's 121st Precinct, and 259 in the 120th.
Readers can find a breakdown of the types of tickets issued here, and an analysis about what those numbers say about Staten Island drivers here.


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Today someone told me they admired my altruistic dedication to working with people living with chronic illness. I laughed and replied that there is nothing altruistic about it. I am a selfish creature. We all are.
My desire to help others and be of service is real and true. But when I delve down to the core motivation for this, I am primarily driven by my own need to feel that my suffering has been meaningful. That I haven't been sick on and off for 16 years without reason or purpose. If I can take what I've learned and use it to help others, then I am rescued from the existential terror that we suffer just because we are alive, and that there is no reason for it.
So if I have helped you in any way, it is with deep gratitude that I thank you for helping me just as much, if not more, in return. I am not selfless, I am selfish. I want my life to mean something. And because I am selfish, I also want your life to mean something.
Has your illness helped draw you closer to what matters most to you?
There's gotta be a reason for our suffering. Otherwise, it's just too much to bear. But the cool thing is, we get to decide what that meaning is.
Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
When I was a senior in high school, I took a class with the best teacher I've ever had. His name was Mr. Nucio. He had been struck by lightning twice. Do you know what the odds of that are? 1 in 360 billion. In other words, not very likely.
Which makes me think he was a special fella. And in fact, he was indeed a very profound man. I think all that electricity shooting through his system really worked in his favor.
On the first day of class, he announced that the meaning of life was "47." The entire year's learning was built around this mystery. How was the number 47 the meaning of life? On the last day of class, after a year's worth of build-up, he announced what the elusive meaning of "47" was. He said, "That's the meaning of life for me. 47."
"But what does it mean?!" we all asked, aghast that he would not give us the answer to the meaning of life, after all that.
"None of your business," he said. "That's my meaning. Go find your own."
And with that, the bell rang.
So today I ask you, what is your 47? What's the meaning of your life? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Yay! I'm back to blogging after an unintended several-week hiatus. I was one of the many unfortunate peeps across the country battling the flu epidemic. It knocked me down for a solid week and a half, and then, on the heels of all that fever and coughing and sniffling, I started graduate school with a five-day intensive colloquium in Arizona.
I haven't been in school since 1998, so the transition back into academia as an adult, single mama with MS has sent me running back into bed to hide under the covers and stew in my overwhelm at least once a day for the past two weeks. But fortunately, I always recover and scrounge up the courage to face the books again when my cat, his perfectly calm, zen-like nature, looks at me with those big, unblinking eyes, as if to say, "What's all the fuss about, Karen? You got this." And so it is. I got this.
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The Good
Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato have completed their Gorilla Grodd story. Wrapping up other elements as well (those stuck in the Speed Force for several issues), we get to see Barry firmly grasp his role as Flash. The Flash fighting while inside the Speed Force allows him to unleash his fury upon Grodd. As this goes on, the Central City Police Department and the Rogues attempt to deal with the rest of Grodd's army.
The art team of Manapul and Buccellato continues to take the series to new levels. The detail and 'special fx' inside the Speed Force or when Turbine uses his powers makes a great scene even more spectacular.
Even as the story wraps up several plot points, we do see seeds planted for what's coming up. We get hints what's next for the Rogues, Barry, Patty, Iris and even Dr. Elias.
You also have to love the reunion between Flash and Iris, even if there's other matters complicating things. And of course we get a nice juicy cliffhanger at the end - the introduction of a new major problem for the Flash.
The Bad
The Gorilla Warfare story was fun but the ending was a little lackluster. What to do with a villain at the end of a story/arc can always go a number of ways. Grodd's 'end' felt like it just suddenly happened. The story itself felt as if it was moving along and then everything was resolved.
Minor gripe: Captain Frye wonders how to save the stadium full of people hooked up to Grodd's device. He decides to just unplug a cable without worrying over the possibility that it could wipe out or fry their minds.
The Verdict
Barry's battle against Gorrilla Grodd is over and he might have a tiny moment to catch his breath. Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato bring the story to a conclusion and treat us with their glorious art and colors. While the story was moving along, there is a small sense that it all abruptly ends here. There is plenty of resolution for the different characters as well as the set up for what's next for them. We also get a big cliffhanger at the end as we see a big problem for the Flash develop.


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Perfect choices, Donald!
I've been joking the last few years that if you invested in military stocks on January 20, 2001, you'd be sitting pretty right now.
Well, now I've got some more evidence to back up that not-so-funny joke.
Since the Iraq War began, aerospace and defense industry stocks have more than doubled.
General Dynamics did even better than that.
Its stock has tripled.
Banking on its Abrams tanks and Stryker troop transports, General Dynamics gobbled up $2.35 billion "in war revenue last year," according to Bloomberg News.
"The war has been a huge benefit to almost all contractors," William Hartung of the New America Foundation told Bloomberg.
War profiteering is not news, I suppose. But it is disgusting. And those who are profiting from the war are Bush and Cheney's cronies in the corporate boardrooms. For them, war is not a bloody tragedy, it's a golden opportunity. Bush's "base" is doing just fine.
Almost 100 years ago, back in 1911, Fighting Bob La Follette, the pioneer of the Progressive movement and founder of the magazine I'm working for, opposed U.S. intervention in Mexico and asked a crucial question:
"Have we come to this point, that patriotism, valor, and life and death are openly made the pawns of Wall Street's politicians, to be moved about as suits the greater profits of Wall Street's master spirits?"
Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes.
La Follette also said, in January 1917, "If our nation manufactured its own munitions in its own factories at cost, it would take the private profit out of war, and the war traders out of American politics."
Alas, the war traders have not yet been expelled from the temple of American politics.
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What's more worrying are those who undermine people with disabilities from behind a veneer of politeness.
It will be good to put all this uncivil discourse behind us.
By Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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Editor's note: April Goss, a freshman walk-on kicker on the Kent State football team, is sharing her experiences as she travels with her Golden Flashes teammates to the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala. You can follow her journal each day in The Plain Dealer and here on cleveland.com
Second day in Mobile (Thursday) and an absolute success. This truly is an amazing treat to our successful season and a win on Sunday would be the cherry on top. Coach Hazell reminded us of something today, we have the opportunity to be one of only a handful of teams, including teams like Oregon, Alabama, and Northern Illinois, to have 12 wins in a season. This game means everything. This is an opportunity for us to have the biggest victory of not only our season, but also our entire career so far under our belts. We owe it to our fans and ourselves to win this game.
The day started off right, with a great practice at the University of South Alabama Practice Facility. The air was cold and the people of Mobile said this was the dead of winter here. But for 40 degree weather, I'll still take that compared to the temperature currently in Ohio. It was our last long practice for the week and we made sure to cover everything we needed to ensure our success.
We had a bit of downtime and some players got the opportunity to visit the South Alabama Children's and Women's Hospital. They got the chance to hand out presents and put a smile on the face of someone who was battling so much. This week has given us so many opportunities to be able to reach out to someone else to do what we can to help.
We capped off the night by visiting the Mobile Civic Center to watch Thom Kaz hypnotize players from both Kent and Arkansas State. Some of the guys to participate were Dana Brown, Joe Ziccardi, Freddy Cortez, Kent Cleveland and Rosie Nix. Man, did they make fools of themselves. We all enjoyed ourselves very much.
It is so great to be able to unwind every day after practice and enjoy ourselves, but we still keep in mind before we go to bed every night the main reason why we are here, to come home with a victory.
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New Orleans-style Meat Loaf with California Raisins and Creole Mustard
Submitted by: Anthony Spizale
California raisins add unbelievable flavors to this Creole favorite.
- 10 ounce lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup California natural raisins, chopped
- 1/4 cup California golden raisins, chopped
- 1 large eggs
- 3 tablespoons chopped shallots
- 2 tablespoons Creole mustard, divided
- 1 teaspoon crumbled dried sage leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons California raisin juice concentrate*
Preheat oven to 425°F. Combine beef, breadcrumbs, raisins, egg, shallots, 1 tablespoon mustard, sage, salt and pepper in large bowl; mix thoroughly. Shape mixture into 2 oval loaves, each about 1-inch thick, and place on small rimmed baking sheet.
Bake loaves 10 minutes. Mix raisin juice concentrate and remaining 1 tablespoon mustard together in small bowl. Brush mixture generously over loaves. Continue to bake until loaves are cooked through and thermometer inserted into center registers 160°F, about 8 minutes.
Note: Commercially prepared California raisin juice concentrate is available from foodservice and industrial suppliers.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving
Calories 280 (28% from fat); Total Fat 9g (sat 3g, mono 4g, poly 1g, trans 0g ); Cholesterol 80mg; Protein 19g; Carbohydrate 34g; (Dietary Fiber 2g; Sugars 22g; ); Iron 4mg; Sodium 580mg; Calcium 70mg; Potassium 469mg
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Japanese Consul General Visits Springfield Museums
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:12 PM
1-31-12 - Springfield - Republican staff photo by Don Treeger- Takeshi Hikihara, Consul General of Japan in Boston, toured the Springfield Museums to view the Japanese art collections at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. Here, he greets Peter Rosskothen, Chairman of the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau (right) .
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Any Day Now
Release Date: December 14th, 2012
R|1 hr. 40 min.
Plot Summary
In the late 1970s, a gay couple take in a mentally impaired teenager who had been abandoned, but the three have to fight a biased legal system to stay together once authorities learn of the unconventional group.
Cast: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin
Director: Travis Fine
Genres: Drama
Distributor: Music Box


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As parents, we know that reading to our children is not only an important contribution to their development, but a powerful opportunity for emotional connection. So when a military parent deploys, the parent is challenged to continue their vital role, despite a long separation. Father's Day is just one of the many special holidays that a military family may not get to spend together. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhI9AH2lMxc] United Through Reading's Military Program is one way a military parent can remain engaged over the course of a deployment. As this awww-inducing video from a United Through Reading beneficiary family shows, children are never too young to benefit from the soothing sound of their parent's voice, and a dad is never too far away to comfort his son in this simple way.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Saturday Of Rest
I had not been able to find any mountain bike shorts I like (bad fit, lack of waist adjustment, etc.), so I got some part-hugging Lycra road shorts with a gel insert that look like they're made for a male go-go dancer, and I'll just wear some shorts that I like over them.
Checked out the new MT00, and they are too minimal for daily use for me, especially after ramming my toe into a rock in the MT110, and having a stick come through the sole of my MT10s, which have similar sole construction. The toe on these is no more protective. I really like running in the light shoes, but I don't like being injured. For me the MT00 has the same utility as the MT10, which is to be a light shoe that would be fun to run in sometimes, especially on smooth trails.
Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye is really good. I wouldn't know rye from other grains in beer by taste, but it's hoppy and dense like their Torpedo, with only slightly less bitterness and ABV. Maybe I should try them side by side ;)
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I grabbed a sixer of that stuff on Friday. I would agree that it is better than the Torpedo. I'm looking forward to trying their Hoptimum at some point.ReplyDelete
Jay - I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite between the two brews. Torpedo has a bit more hops, whereas Ruthless Rye has a bit more maltiness. Hoptimum is excellent. Great brewery, and their Pale Ale was probably the first non-mass beer I really liked... many many years ago.ReplyDelete
Okay, convinced. I will will give it a whirl. I like the torpedo but have been afraid to try the rye given druthers of how to drop 8 bucks on a sixer.ReplyDelete
GZ - In the interest of science, I decided to do a comparison tasting this evening and I'm going to have to agree with Jay. The Ruthless has more malt body and complexity than the Torpedo, which is more hop-heavy (I like it a lot) but doesn't have the same complexity or body behind it. But, I might need to do this taste test again :)ReplyDelete
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5 Greatest QBs To Don The Burgundy And Gold
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We love some and hate others. They are who we dreamt of being as young children (or ill-adjusted adults) or cussed on countless Sundays. We wear their jerseys and emulated them in the backyard. They are typically the highest paid, realize the greatest fame and always have an attractive woman on their arm. They contribute the most to wins and losses, and often execute a franchise's most memorable plays. Not surprisingly then, they also spark historic debates and comprise the most compelling countdowns. They are … the quarterbacks.
Fair or not, it is what it is. You wouldn't have clicked on the link to this piece, and you certainly wouldn't be reading paragraph two if the title was "The Top 5 Guards In Washington Redskins History" — even if you knew that list would include Mark "Stink" Schlereth and Hall-of-Famer Russ Grimm. Today's NFL is unquestionably dominated by quarterbacks; but the game's always been about the men behind center. Ask any casual sports fan to name 10 famous NFL players, and 7.58 of the responses will be quarterbacks. Trust me on that metric; I'm a football scientist of the highest integrity. I would never just make something up to illustrate a point.
Anyway … so who are the best five signal-callers to grace the gridiron in Washington? There were over 80 years of franchise history, three distinct winning eras and five championships — two NFL and three Super Bowls — to comb through. That makes it sound more complicated and dramatic than it really was. The truth is, seven candidates quickly separated themselves, but picking and ranking the final five was challenging. I lost sleep; my head's been pounding for days. I challenged the significant limits of Excel with statistical analysis. And too much beer has been consumed in search of clarity. Eventually, the list emerged, and it is now time to share it with the world (in case you missed it, that was verbiage drum roll).


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Another new airBaltic destination in Finland to Riga still missing from my log was Vaasa. Back in March I flew the tag on route across the Gulf of Bothnia to UME in Sweden on the inaugural flights, see report here: A Night In Prison: HEL-VAA-UME-VAA-HEL (by FlyingFinn76 Apr 1 2010 in Trip Reports) I didn't do the actual continuation flight VAA-RIX back then, so its turn was now. The flight was booked a long ago, actually before the UME stop was announced, back in December 2009 for around 50 EUR. A bit later I added a RIX-HEL flight to get my home for another 50 EUR.
The flight schedules were such that I needed to overnight in Vaasa as there was no flight that would get me there in time for the 7.35 departure. I had the option of flying or taking the train - both cost roughly the same at around 60 EUR. I decided to go for the train as it gets you right in the city centre, avoiding a 20 EUR taxi trip from the airport - the bus connections to VAA airport are very limited.
On this depressing gray and rainy Friday I nip out of work a bit early around 15.00, walk to the nearest train stop and take a local train to Pasila, where I board a Pendolino train bound for Oulu a bit later:
As it is Friday night the train is absolutely packed, actually they have combined two single train units to make one larger train and yet there aren't too many vacant seats. I try to drink some beer at the restaurant car but it is not very comfortable as there are so many people around here. Two and half hours later I step off the train in Seinäjoki, the "Dallas of Finland" to connect to a regional train to Vaasa which takes a bit over an hour.
In Vaasa it is a short walk to the main market square where my hotel, the Sokos Hotel Vaakuna is located.
I found a great online rate for only 59 EUR for this very standard but comfortable enough example of this ubiquitous Finnish hotel chain. My room is a bit on the small side and the weird concrete pillar in the middle makes for a claustrophobic feeling, but with free wifi it's fine for a short one night stay.
I eat some vaguely Mexicanish supper at the hotel's Amarillo chain restaurant before taking a small walk around Vaasa - you gotta love Finland in the summertime, it is past nine and the sun is just setting.
They used to claim that Vaasa was the sunniest city in Finland before proven wrong - Mariehamn in the Åland Islands officially has a few more sunnier days per year on average, but then again calling Åland Finnish is always a bit dodgy... . Anyway the weather up here is sunny:
I retire early to the hotel to get some sleep (yeah right, more time in front of the laptop) in anticipation of the early wake up call the next morning.
Woken up by my mobile around 6.00 I am completely disoriented by some deep dreams - it takes a while before I figure out where the heck am I and what an earth am I supposed to do next. Quick shower, pack up the stuff, nick the hotel pen and stationery (my wife keeps complaining about this habit of mine!) and down to the lobby to checkout and have the friendly reception guy call me a taxi, out to the taxi and arrive at the airport around 6.45 or so. The taxi driver was quite a jolly guy, I think I managed to overtalk him into flying with BT to RIX for a summer break . There's a sizeable bunch of folks queuing at the airBaltic/Blue 1 check in counters so I use the self-service machine instead. I smell something fishy as it doesn't let me choose my seat, instead spitting out a boarding pass with "GATE" in place of the seat number.
Oh well, I'll deal with it a bit later, first order is to get some caffeine into my system and luckily the coffee shop is already open. One cup of coffee and a Karelian pastry (a Finnish thing) later I head back to the now deserted check in counter to ask the lovely young lady there about a seat assignment. She looks at me funnily - I sense something is going on here. She asks if I'm going just to Riga - I answer that yes, adding that I'm actually going to Helsinki a few hours later, on a separate ticket. That certainly made a beep at her radar and she decides to drop the bomb: "Actually, the flight to Riga is overbooked - would you mind flying directly to Helsinki instead?". I tell her that no, I wouldn't mind at all if we can agree on the terms (comp*cough*ensa*cough*tion) - she says that she needs to call Riga to get approval. Fine, take your time, I'm going to visit the little boys room while you do so.
After I come back she offers me 500 EUR in BT travel vouchers (exchangeable for 250 EUR cash should I decide to do so) and a seat on the 10.25 Finncomm flight to HEL. I contemplate this offer for around two milliseconds before telling her "Let's do it!". She explains that there's still one person who hasn't checked in so I'll need to go to the gate and they will call me if my seat is indeed needed.
Ok, I head to the gate, chatting for a bit with the friendly security agents who for once are actually happy to speak Finnish with me - and right when I get there the gate agent (who is not very fluent in nor happy to speak Finnish) tells me that the last passenger checked in and that I should head back. I do this - the security people get a chuckle out of me going back and forth - heading for the girl at the check in counter again. She tells me that airBaltic doesn't normally overbook flights here, but for some strange reason the Umeå station had still sold one last minute ticket on the flight this morning - and since it was already 100% full from VAA onwards they ended up being overbooked by one. I say that fine, that last minute booking probably cost so much that it will cover my rebooking and denied boarding compensation... As a bonus she gives me a 6 EUR refreshment voucher for the cafe and tells me to go there and she will come back with the vouchers and paperwork when done. Just for the heck of it I ask whether it would be possible to get rebooked to HEL via ARN - I certainly wouldn't mind another ride on a Saab 2000 but she's only authorized to rebook me on the direct FC flight.
Ålandsbanken, a bank based in the Åland Islands (nice work, Sherlock!) recently unleashed some PR about opening of various "lounges" at some regional airports around (mostly the Swedish-speaking part) Finland. One of these airports was Vaasa. Here's the result:
My idea of a lounge is a bit different.
So to the cafe I head to get a bit more substantial breakfast - I had actually planned on having one onboard the flight but this will have to do. I watch TF-JMN, the Air Iceland F50 leased to BT arriving from UME a minute ahead of schedule. Three passengers seem to deboard here. I have three hours to wait, but with free wifi, my laptop, abundant power sockets and lots of reading material with me I can easily manage - that 500 EUR in vouchers sure helps .
A bit later the agent comes to me, handing me the precious vouchers and a FIM printout for rebooking on the FC flight. Another added bonus: she booked me on the AY codeshare instead of the FC flight number - that means I'll get some AY Plus miles as well, the FC flight numbers no longer qualify for any. I thank her but she thanks me instead . In the FIM she filed me as "Involuntary Denied Boarding", I tell her that she can change it to "Voluntary" to make the statistics look a bit better but she doesn't bother...
Sometime later I head back to the check in to ask her to unload me from my RIX-HEL flight as I had done OLCI for that the previous day - she cannot undo the actual check in but can delete the whole reservation which should have the same effect. I say that "As I won't be taking that flight there's no reason why I wouldn't let airBaltic sell a last minute ticket for my seat".
I go outside to watch the Golden Air Saab 2000 operating the 9.25 KF departure to ARN:
Back inside to hand in the FIM to the FC check in lady and to get my frequent flier number in. That done I sit in a quiet corner to watch the happenings - there's a group of ten or so Spanish passengers on my flight, probably connecting to the MAD flight in the afternoon - the BCN one leaves in the morning. A bit later three guys who look like Hell's Angels arrive with a blindfolded woman - apparently this is her hen party and she is going on a private Cessna flight to Sweden! She is very surprised when she realizes this...
Meanwhile I see my FC ATR landing from Helsinki ten or so minutes early and head through security to the gate area. The security people are surprised to see me again - I explain what happened and the lady is like "Oh, that's so terrible." I answer "No, it's actually great. I was going to Helsinki anyway, and besides I didn't walk empty handed out of it!". She doesn't really seem to get my point and looks at me a bit weirdly.
Boarding starts a bit later, the gate agent makes the effort to speak Spanish with the group of Spaniards - I ask if she can speak Savo (my native dialect, a twisted version of Finnish) with me but apparently she can't do it - I answer that "It's very close to Finnish anyway" .
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10.23 - 11.18
The ride is OH-ATH, my fourth flight on this one. After boarding is completed I overhear the passenger load being 32.
Our flight time is announced as 50 minutes and we depart two minutes before schedule, taxiing all the way to the end of the runway before turning around for a runway 16 departure.
With Finland being so densely populated that it is hard to find any new farming ground, there has recently been an experiment to use the grass areas of airports for crops. Here's the preparation work taking place:
The crosswind runway that hasn't been in use for years now:
That straight line is a right-of-way for some heavy duty power lines belonging to the national grid:
An interesting hill near Jurva:
The service is standard for the FC domestic hops - a small sandwich, with cheese this time and drinks. I go for a cup of apple-grape juice.
Just before passing Tampere the FO comes on, explaining that we are about to enter a weather front with some light chops to be expected. Landing will be on the far runway (assume 04L) at HEL with a lengthy 5-10 taxi time, but still arriving on time. Helsinki weather is grey with low clouds and a temperature of six degrees.
The weather front - the chops aren't bad at all:
The weather in Helsinki is definitely grey, the first glimpse of ground is mere seconds before touchdown.
The long-term parking area recently moved here:
It looks like Helsinki Approach had pity on us as we land on the runway 04R instead which is right next to the terminal building, so taxi time is short.
Seeing these ex-AY MD-11s always makes me sad:
Finncomm E170 - due to fly one of these babies next week!
Sorry mate, no flight with your company today:
Alpha Romeo, will leave the fleet shortly:
Deboarding to a bus, I run through the airport to catch the next bus home leaving in just a minute and easily make it, ready to start daydreaming about the endless exciting possibilities on how to use my travel vouchers!
The precious - I censored the number with a Finavia propaganda sticker:
I haven't had a bump since 2005 - that was on LH and another 500 EUR of vouchers and a nice room at the Steigenberger Airport Hotel in FRA. I used to have quite a few during my golden years with SAS but those times are long gone. Certainly appreciated, I spent around 100 EUR on these two BT flights I didn't take and walked away with five times that much to spend on new tickets. Sure, the LH and SK vouchers were more useful as they fly to some much more exotic destinations than airBaltic, but I'm not complaining at all.
I'm regretting a bit that I mentioned that I'm actually going to HEL - it would've been interesting to know what kind of routing she'd offered to get to RIX, probably the same FC flight to HEL and BT onwards, or maybe the KF/DC S2000 to ARN and BT from there...
Let's see when I can schedule another attempt at the VAA-RIX route.
The next trip is tomorrow with another new BT route and a few hours in Tallinn: TMP-RIX-TLL-TMP.


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Welcome, welcomeEdit
Hi Extremo! I am Ilan xd, the b'crat here.
I've checked your edits and they are pretty good, but please, don't edit any "spoilers" to the characters pages. If you would like to be promoted to a moderator (it's too early for you to be an admin), you can make a request on Rockstar Games Wiki: Requests for Promotion
Nice Editing, and enjoy your stay :) -- Ilan xd 10:51, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
Okay, make a request on Rockstar Games Wiki: Requests for Promotion. -- Ilan xd 05:14, February 1, 2012 (UTC)
Actually, you don't need to make a request, I've already gave you moderator rights. I saw your edits here and on the GTA wiki and I want to say that they are pretty good. -- Ilan xd 16:18, February 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, and I sure you would be a good editor, but, please be more active. -- Ilan xd 19:13, February 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Welcome to the team. :) Bunny J. The Bunny button 16:32, February 1, 2012 (UTC)
If this bitch will ever step his foot here, tell me or Bunnyjoke about that. --- Ilan xd 13:51, February 6, 2012 (UTC)
Good to see you active! How are you? -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 15:19, February 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeh, I saw his message, and already replayed. -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 15:36, February 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah, thanks for all the help. We really appreciate it.
Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 20:36 2/25/2012
By the way, You can vote :) -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 11:01, February 26, 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the congrats and also thanks for voting for me. :) PS My name isnt actually Russell Northrop, it's Lincoln (usually Linx). Russell is a character in Bully. Lol. :D Russelnorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 02:34, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Haha. It's ok mate, you can still call me Russell. Got to go to class. :) Russelnorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 02:57, February 27, 2012 (UTC)
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You can go on now. Sorry, I forgot I had the tab open. :P Russelnorthrop (Talk2Me--Contribs) 09:24, February 28, 2012 (UTC)
Yeh. Damn errors. :S -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 12:02, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Don't do anything. These errors are just something temp made by Wikia as they creating\correcting something in the sites. -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 12:17, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
- I don't know -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 12:21, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes. -- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 12:25, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeh.-- Ilan (Talk to me • Edits • Home ) 12:29, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
A small notice...Edit
Hey Extremo. I just wanted to ask you not to create so many pages - I don't want ot get the situation "too many short pages\stubs". Please expand the pages we have now, before moving to create new pages.
Cheers :D -- Ilan (XD • Edits • Home ) 09:13, March 3, 2012 (UTC)
Yeh, I saw your last comment, and I know you withdrew. Keep editing in various ways: main pages, images, templates. -- Ilan (XD • Edits • Home ) 06:06, March 7, 2012 (UTC)
In a few months, try again and we'll probably vote yes. Keep up the good work! :) Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 17:56 3/7/2012
RE:Template Edit
Your template is nicer than mine, if you ask me. :) By the way, I got the design for the status list from a user template I saw on Community Central. Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 15:04 3/11/2012
RE: Archiving Edit
It's really simple; just create a page called: User talk:(username)/Archive 1, copy everything on your talk page and add it to that page. For example, if you were gonna archive your talk page, you would want to create the page called: User talk:ExtremoMania/Archive 1 and copy all the stuff from your talk page and add it there. Then, you can clear out your talk page. You should be sure to leave a link on you talk page that goes to the archive page. But if they already have a archive template like we do here, just put that on your talk page instead of a link. Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 15:22 3/16/2012
- No problem. :)
Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 16:01 3/16/2012
Yes. -- Ilan (XD • Edits • Home ) 15:01, March 22, 2012 (UTC)
RE: Featured Edit
You're a staff member. If you see a page you think is good and should be featured, you can just type: {{Featured article}} at the very top of the page and publish it. No need to vote. Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 15:03 3/22/2012
RE:inactive Edit
It's okay, you were busy. Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 13:58 4/11/2012
RE:congrats Edit
Thanks. :) Bunny J. [Bunnyjoke] 02:42 4/27/2012
I'm going to get this game soon, I've already ordered it. I hoped you enjoyed your vacation :) -- Ilan (XD • Edits • Home ) 18:16, May 19, 2012 (UTC)
U Back?Edit
Yay! :P -- ILan (XD • Edits • Home ) 11:59, August 13, 2012 (UTC)


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Round of applause for roundabouts: The roundabouts in the city of Mobile are some of the best things I've ever seen. It moves traffic so much more smoothly and doesn't back up traffic like a red light does. When you've got an intersection where you can move traffic as freely as that, I'd say those roundabouts need to be put in a lot more places. So I hope the city of Mobile is considering the idea of moving the roundabouts to more of those intersections where the red lights are nothing but a boondoggle that slows traffic down.
No value: The employees of Wal-Mart, pretty much nationwide, are trying to do something about the fact that they don't get to work full-time and don't have any benefits and get paid something less than a living wage. I think we should join together with them and not shop there, especially on Black Friday, because they've designated that day and asked people not to shop on it. You know, 80 percent of Wal-Mart employees qualify for food stamps. When Mom and Pop America have to pay for Wal-Mart employees to eat, we're just supplementing Wal-Mart so that one family can make an obscene amount of profit. How about the option where they make less profit and pay their workers a living wage?
Israel should show its might: If I was Israel, I wouldn't stop at Gaza. I would just keep on marching -- keep on marching, keep on marching, because they're all involved. They say, "What about the innocent women and children?" Well, what about the innocent women and children of Israel, which the press never says anything about?
TV crews shouldn't go to the Middle East: Why do these networks on TV have to send reporters over to this mess in Israel and Gaza and risk their lives? We are really not that interested in it. Why do they send those people over there when it doesn't really matter here in the United States?
Put your money where your house isn't: Succession is not the answer. Don't move yourself out of the country, move your money. It's perfectly legal as long as you pay your taxes, and not as hard as you might think. If we start squeezing some banks, then maybe somebody will listen.
Pinhead commentary: I'd like to know when I'm going to get my free stuff. Because, according to Bill O'Reilly, he said people who voted for Barack Obama are going to get free stuff. Well, it's been two weeks now, and I'm still waiting for my free stuff. Is it going to be money? A television? A car? A new iPhone, maybe? I've tried to call Fox News to get in touch with Bill O'Reilly, but they said I couldn't do that. I just want to know when I'm going to get my free stuff.
For the birds: I wonder how much the federal government pays for that turkey, driving it down to Washington D.C., then putting it up in a hotel two nights, then paying those armed guards to stand around it. They want to cut out this wasteful spending, that should be part of it right there.


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Ferries could plan own security
Washington State Ferries could craft a local maritime security plan under a bill recently approved by Congress.
Called the Maritime Transportation Security Act, the legislation provides a two-tiered approach to securing the nations seaports, said U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-1st District).
One tier is national, the other local.
The Coast Guard will be tasked with adopting national rules for what is needed for port security, Inslee said. The bill also allows for individual operators which, in our case, means (WSF), to adopt their own security plans.
The legislation, unanimously approved Nov. 14 by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, encourages local input in planning for security aboard Washington State Ferries.
Inslee said the bill was the culmination of work performed over the last few months, independent of a set of strict guidelines proposed by the Cost Guard.
Those guidelines, made public last month, called for screening ferry passengers, cars and luggage all measures that could bog down ferry traffic, cause scheduling problems and dips in ridership, according to lawmakers.
We want to make sure that security measures dont interrupt our commute to work, Inslee said. We must put together plans that both provide needed security and maintain efficient service to ferry commuters. I think we can have our cake and eat it too.
According to the legislation, the Coast Guard will craft a national protocol to guide the countrys seaports.
Within six months of the completion of those guidelines, WSF would devise a set of ferry security guidelines that consider the practical need to commute, and security in general.
The local plan would be presented to the Coast Guard for consideration.
The important part of the bill calls for individualized plans to be developed by operators, and that is key, Inslee said. That way, the concerns of commuters and users can be taken into consideration.
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Inslee said that in implementing security improvements, significant local involvement is necessary for the success of the program.
We should have the ability to tell the Cost Guard what our desires are and still come up with a plan that doesnt give potential terrorists a road map, he said.
Although local officials and ferry commuters will have a hand in developing new ferry security regulations, much of the plan will be kept confidential.
According to the legislation, the local security plan should identify an official who has authority to implement security actions.
That official is required to communicate with federal officials about establishing and maintaining physical security, controlling access to secure areas aboard the vessels and deterring transportation security incidents and threats.
Training and unannounced drills would also be carried out under the plan, which is to be updated at least every five years, under the legislation.
The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security would review the plans, ask for any changes and approve them.
Ferries wont be allowed to operated after one year if a plan has not been approved and implemented, but Inslee said that wont happen.
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A recent study of college sustainability has ascribed hundreds of universities a letter grade based on how green they are. Hoboken's tech school Stevens Institute of Technology squeaked by with a "C+."
The College Sustainability Report Card 2011, an independent evaluation of sustainability in campus operations and endowment practices, profiles 322 schools in the United States and eight Canadian provinces.
Institutions are assessed in nine categories, such as climate change and energy, transportation, food and recycling, endowment transparency, investment priorities.
Brown University, Yale University, Oberlin College, Dickinson College, Pomona College, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and University of Wisconsin-Madison were among the schools with top "A" scores.
Stevens got an "A" in investment priorities because it "aims to optimize investment returns, and the endowment is currently invested in renewable energy funds."
Two "D" grades were given for student involvement and endowment transparency. "The institute makes a list of all holdings available to trustees and senior administrators," the report said. "Only asset allocation information is available on the school website to the general public. A list of votes cast on proxy resolutions on a company-specific level is made available to trustees, senior administrators, and other select members of the school community."
The study culled data from survey responses and independent research.
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Apologies to all who had to work yesterday. For everyone else, welcome back to the real world and the new year. It's time for the Monday Tuesday Grind.
– Automotive News offers a preview of the NAIAS in Detroit, Michigan
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'The fusion of military and political activity in 21st Century combat' (Policy and Practice)
Publication date: Sep 30, 2013 11:57 AM
Jan 16, 2014 05:30 PM
End: Jan 16, 2014 07:00 PM
Location: Medical Sciences 131 AV Hill LT Medical Sciences building, Malet Place, WC1E 6BT
Emile Simpson
Emile Simpson served in the British Army from 2006-12 as an infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles. He completed three tours in Southern Afghanistan, as well as service in Brunei, Nepal, and the Falkland Islands. He previously read history at Oxford University, and subsequently returned as a Visiting Defence Fellow to the Oxford Changing Character of War Programme. He also holds a graduate diploma in English law. War From the Ground Up: Twenty- First-Century Combat as Politics is his first book.
In the Afghan conflict, and in contemporary conflicts more generally, liberal powers and their armed forces have blurred the line between military and political activity. The clear-cut conception that the use of force in war serves to defeat and enemy has been challenged by practices developed to deal with complex multi-player political eco-systems, in which the persuasive value of an action is as important as its military effect against an enemy. The consequent politicisation of tactical action is not new, but is nonetheless catalysed by the information revolution, and hence appears to point to the future of conflict.
This lecture will describe this evolution, using first hand experience from Afghanistan, and suggest that while a fusion of military and political activity is often necessary to be operationally effective in modern warfare, so too does this carry risks in terms on the broader delimitation between war and peace.
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A cardinal, born 30 Jan., 1823, at Naples, Italy ; died 7 Dec., 1896. He entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order on 25 April, 1839. Immediately after ordination he was sent in November, 1846, to Patna, India. The vicar Apostolic, Anastasius Hartmann, made him his socius and confidant. In 1850 Persico accompanied Bishop Hartmann to Bombay, when he was transferred to that vicariate, and assisted him in founding a seminary and establishing the "Bombay Catholic Examiner". At the time of the Goanese schism in 1853, the bishop sent Persico to Rome and London to lay the Catholic case before the pope and the British Government. He obtained British recognition for Catholic rights.
He was consecrated bishop on 8 March, 1854, and nominated bishop-auxiliary to Bishop Hartmann; but the next year he was appointed visitor of the Vicariate of Agra, and afterwards vicar Apostolic of that district. During the Indian Mutiny he was several times in danger of his life. The anxieties of this period told upon his health and in 1860 he was compelled to return to Italy. Sent in 1866 on a mission to the United States , he took part in the Council of Baltimore. On 20 March, 1870, he was nominated Bishop of Savannah ; but his health again failing, he resigned in 1873. In 1874 he was sent as Apostolic delegate to Canada ; and in 1877 he was commissioned to settle the affairs of the Malabar schism. On 26 March, 1879, he was appointed Bishop of Aquino in Italy ; but in March, 1887, he was promoted to the titular Archbishopric of Tamiatha and sent as Apostolic delegate to Ireland to report upon the relations of the clergy with the political movement. He quickly saw that the question must be considered not merely in relation to present politics but also in relation to the past history of Ireland, and he delayed his final report in order to consider the question in this broader aspect. Meanwhile the Holy See issued its condemnation of the Plan of Campaign. Persico returned to Rome much disappointed. He was at once nominated Vicar of the Vatican Chapter. On 16 January, 1893, he was created cardinal priest of the title of St. Peter in Chains.
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The Eagle's Dec. 5 editorial promoting ridgeline wind farms in the Berkshires is seriously flawed. The Eagle presents wind projects as "beneficial" but it fails to describe the extensive blasting often needed to create the massive pads for the turbines, the largest of which are as tall as 50-story buildings, and the extensive blasting also needed to prepare a deep base for roads as wide, in parts, as Route 7 -- roads which traverse steep slopes, destroy hundreds of acres of forest, disrupt hiking trails and drainage routes, and destroy wildlife habitats. Nor does The Eagle mention the wide corridors for transmission lines, which are built without any legal recourse for the landowners whose land is impacted.
The Eagle praises wind projects for reducing our carbon footprint, but it fails to mention that the wind-resource in the Berkshires is very marginal, and that even the draconian approach of erecting many hundreds of turbines on our ridges would not even produce 5 percent of our energy needs. Indeed, the dollars being spent by ratepayers and taxpayers to subsidize wind farms could be used in a much more productive and efficient way to sponsor other green projects, including conservation and efficiency programs, and small and large solar, hydro-electric, and geo-thermal projects.
Contrary to the Eagle's accusations, promoting wind projects is "environmentally irresponsible" as it promotes wasting valuable human, financial, and natural resources needed to reduce our carbon footprint.
Hopefully, local officials throughout the Berkshires will shore up their bylaws to prohibit wind farms and will urge state officials to shift their course away from on-shore wind and toward more sensible, renewable projects.


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Wisc. Supremes Dismiss Anti-Gay Pastor's Defamation Suit
Being unnecessarily litigiousness can cost you. Just ask Reverend Grant Storms.
The anti-gay preacher man filed a defamation lawsuit against gay rights group Action Wisconsin after they highlighted his homophobic sermons, which they claim advocated offing gays.
A court dismissed Storms' suit back in 2005, but the tenacious pastor wouldn't quit and took his case all the way to the state's Supreme Court. The court, however, wasn't having it and upheld the 2005 ruling.
Storms, who had preached about shooting gays, must now pay about $87,000 for what the court described as a "frivolous" lawsuit.
Need to have the tail up, Foof, bangs cover up his finer points.
I t seems to me that there should be criminal laws against attempting to induce violence, publicly.
That madman, Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church advocates violence against homosexuals all the time. In fact, he advocates the criminalization of homosexuality and making it an offense punishable by death.
Hm…wonder of that idiot ruling Gambia could use a man like this in his cabinet?


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A chalice-like vessel used to contain the Blessed Sacrament. The word is of rather doubtful etymology, Some derive it from the Latin word cibus , "food", because it is used to contain the Heavenly Bread ; while others trace it to the Greek kirorion , "cup", because of the original shape of this Eucharistic receptacle. The term was aslo applied in early Christian times to the Canopy that surmounted and crowned the altar ( see article ALTAR CANOPY ), but according to modern liturgical usage the word denotes exclusively the sacred vessel employed for the reservation of the Consecrated Species. At the present day two vessels are used to reserve the Blessed Sacrament : one, called a pyx , is a small round box and serves for carrying the Blessed Sacrament to the sick; the other, generally styled a ciborium , is used for distributing Holy Communion in churches and for reserving the consecrated particles in the tabernacle. In shape the ciborium resembles a chalice, but the cup or bowl is round rather than oblong, and provided with a conical cover surmounted by a cross or some other appropriate device. The bottom of the cup should be a little raised at the centre so that the last particles may be easily removed and the purification more conveniently performed. The material should be gold or silver (base metals are sometimes allowed), but the interior of the cup must be always lined with gold. The ciborium is not consecrated, but blessed by a bishop or some priest deputed by him, according to the form given in the Roman Ritual. While containing the Sacred Species it should be covered with small white veil of silk or cloth of gold, and may not be handled except by sacred ministers ; when empty and purified it may be touched by all clerics (Cong. of Rites, Jan., 1907), and by lay persons if specially authorized. In Eastern Churches the paten is commonly used for the distribution of Communion, and the Blessed Sacrament is reserved in gold or silver boxes covered with silk and suspended from the altar-canopy in accordance with ancient custom.
During the first three centuries the Blessed Eucharist was not generally reserved in churches owing to the danger of profanation and the persecutions, but the faithful sometimes kept the Sacred Species in Silver boxes in their homes for the purpose of receiving it at the time of death (St. Jerome, De Afr. Pers., I; Tertullian, De Orat., c. xiv, etc.). In the fourth century there are evidences that it was reserved in churches, but only for the sick. In the fifth and sixth centuries reservation was more common, and the method adopted varied with time and place. The vessels which the Sacred Species was kept were called indiscriminately capsa, pyxis, cuppa, turris, columba, and ciborium , and were themselves preserved either in a chamber in the sacristy ( secretarium ), in a niche in the wall or pillar ( ambry ), under an altar, or in other places designated by the words diaconium, pastophorium, vestiarium, etc. Subsequently it became the practice to reserve the Blessed Sacrament in dove-shaped receptacles ( columb ) or in little towers ( turres ), the former being suspended by chains from the ciborium or canopy of the altar, and the latter being usually placed in the Armarium. In the sixteenth century the columbæ and the towers began to disappear, and gave way to the tabernacle and the custom which is now universal throughout the Western Church. Ancient vessels of reservation may still be seen in the treasuries of continental cathedrals at Milan, Cologne, Rouen, and elsewhere. (See TABERNACLE; RESERVATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.)
The Catholic Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive resource on Catholic teaching, history, and information ever gathered in all of human history. This easy-to-search online version was originally printed between 1907 and 1912 in fifteen hard copy volumes.
Designed to present its readers with the full body of Catholic teaching, the Encyclopedia contains not only precise statements of what the Church has defined, but also an impartial record of different views of acknowledged authority on all disputed questions, national, political or factional. In the determination of the truth the most recent and acknowledged scientific methods are employed, and the results of the latest research in theology, philosophy, history, apologetics, archaeology, and other sciences are given careful consideration.
No one who is interested in human history, past and present, can ignore the Catholic Church, either as an institution which has been the central figure in the civilized world for nearly two thousand years, decisively affecting its destinies, religious, literary, scientific, social and political, or as an existing power whose influence and activity extend to every part of the globe. In the past century the Church has grown both extensively and intensively among English-speaking peoples. Their living interests demand that they should have the means of informing themselves about this vast institution, which, whether they are Catholics or not, affects their fortunes and their destiny.
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(Northland's NewsCenter) --- The NFL announced its preseason matchups on Tuesday night for the 2012 season, with specific dates and times to be released at a later date.
The Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers will both open play on the road, with the Vikes going to San Francisco and the Pack going to San Diego.
Below is listed a full list of the preseason schedule for both Minnesota and Green Bay.
Week One (August 9-13)
Minnesota at San Francisco
Green Bay at San Diego
Week Two (August 16-20)
Buffalo at Minnesota
Cleveland at Green Bay
Week Three (23-26)
San Diego at Minnesota
Green Bay at Cincinnati
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BYRON TOWNSHIP -- The cause of a morning fire in the laundry room of Byron Center High School that resulted in students being sent home is still unknown, according to Superintendent Dan Takens.
Students and staff were evacuated immediately after the fire was reported around 8:50 a.m. No one was injured. The small fire started in a dryer and was contained to the laundry room, but was near a gas line and sent smoke through the building.
The situation was resolved in about an hour but students were dismissed at 10:30 a.m. because of smoke and lunch issues. School usually lets out at 2:30 p.m.
Takens said the school of 1,039 students had a smoky smell and that was a health issue for some students. He also said because the cafeteria is near the laundry room power had been turned out.
If they had provided lunch, Takens said it would have been a cold lunch served in the classrooms. He said that would have been challenging for staff.
The school district kept students' parents updated about the situation via instant messaging.
Takens and administrators are currently meeting at the high school for a debriefing.
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