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A Commercial Certificate is Still Just a License to Learn
A pilot certificate is just a license to learn.
When you're doing your initial training, that must seem like a foreign concept. Those guys and gals who have completed initial training and have certificates must know something, right? Well, of course they do. But you'll be surprised at how much each additional rating shows you what you don't know about flying. And how much you'll want to go learn that stuff!
I try to practice what I preach. After the instrument rating, I began a quest to visit as many corners of the aviation envelope as I could find. And there are plenty! Multi-engine aircraft. Seaplanes. Flying upside down. For several years, I didn't need to get a flight review because a new certificate or rating resets the clock on flight reviews. In fact, I went months at a time carrying a paper temporary certificate for this or that because the plastic certificates couldn't keep up.
It's not that I gave that up. I shot a movie about aerobatics, got more involved in CAP, and flew competition aerobatics myself. But I hadn't gotten a new rating in some time.
If you'd asked me in March if I thought that I'd be a commercial pilot now (and in gliders no less), I'd have chuckled at you. But here I am, one of the nation's newest commercial pilots. I went in for the checkride on June 26 at Livingston County Airport (KOZW) near Howell, Michigan. I felt ready. I got through the three-hour oral with the authority of a Navy Chief. I flew the first 90% of the practical test like a champ, including shutting down the engine in flight (required for the ride when you're doing your ride in a motorglider – don't try this with your average single-engine airplane) and getting a restart. Then we came back in to the airport for the landings. I needed to do a no-spoiler landing, a precision landing, and an emergency abort.
Long story short, I failed the no-spoiler landing by coming in way too high and way too fast and I blew by the imaginary fence at the second turnoff. End of checkride. My first time ever hooking any checkride unless you count that instrument stage check way back in 2005 or so.
Kerry Brown was the FAA designated examiner. He gave a really fair ride and seemed more disappointed than I was that I hooked it. But he invited me to get a little remedial instruction and come back to polish off the ride.
I've long said that there's no shame in hooking a ride. The penalty is that you have to go out and fly more. Oh, no! Please don't throw me in that briar patch! But now I had the opportunity to actually see how well I'd live by those words.
My trusty instructor, John Harte, and I banged out five landings on the trip home. I then did a fair amount of flying, some of it in formation on the way to the Battle Creek airshow and around the field when the box was closed. (The formation stuff is worth an entirely separate post. It's amazing. It turns out that I can do it reasonably well. And, if you've never arrived at your favorite airshow in a three-ship formation and done an overhead break to land in front of a crowd line that you used to occupy as a spectator, it'll peel the top right off your head with pride.)
On July 12, flew back to KOZW to meet again with the designated examiner, Kerry Brown. I banged out eight landings before rolling to the ramp, gassing up, and loading in Kerry.
The additional training helped a great deal. I was a lot more graceful and steady on the slip in to the no-spoiler landing. I nailed the emergency abort, even though it took a couple of S-turns to be sure of landing with enough room to roll out comfortably. I shut the engine down downwind abeam (again: don't try this at home other than in a motorglider) slipped a little on base and final, touched down, put the speed brakes away, brought the tail back up, and coasted into the 100-foot zone with Kerry's voice in my ears congratulating me on my new commercial pilot certificate.
Flying continues to have the ability to baffle, surprise, challenge, and inspire any human. I can say that after 370 or so hours and a more varied logbook than most pilots have after more than 1,000 hours. Even airline drivers with 10,000+ hours will tell you exactly the same thing. Heck, I'm pretty sure that astronauts will say the same.
If you're a primary student (and, if you're reading this blog, it's likely that you are), the things that you're working on might be different from what I'm working on. But we're both working just as hard. My stuff is just as new to me as your stuff is to you. And that's the way it should always be.
Been slogging into the parking lot lately after training sessions wondering if you'll ever figure out when to flare? I hear you. You should have been there with me in the TG-7A a quarter mile out and 800 feet up wondering how I was going to get the aircraft down and stopped before that second turnoff. I was at least as confounded as you.
But I have a new commercial pilot certificate in my pocket right now. And you'll soon have a private or sport pilot certificate in yours. Days like the one on which I had my first phase of the commercial ride are inevitable. They happen. It's what you do with a setback like that when it confronts you.
A pilot certificate is just a license to learn. A rough patch on your path is par for the course. If you don't have rough patches, you're not trying hard enough or getting the most important stuff out of this experience. And rough patches make days like July 12 all the more worthwhile.


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---- — TICONDEROGA — A Ticonderoga man was arrested on felony criminal contempt charges Sunday.
Ticonderoga police received a call from the friend of the ex-girlfriend of Mark C. Michalak, 30, late Saturday night informing them that Michalak was allegedly violating an order of protection between he and his ex-girlfriend that was put in place because of previous domestic incidents.
Michalak was arrested at 12:40 a.m. at 143 Champlain Ave. in Ticonderoga and charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony.
He was arraigned before Judge James O'Brien in Ticonderoga Town Court.
Michalak is being held in Essex County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond.
No further information was available.
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With only a few months until its September debut, Mercedes-Benz has taken most of the...
Mazda MX-5 Special Edition heads for Chicago show
Mazda will never forget that the Miata roadster first debuted at the Chicago auto show in 1989. Since then it has used Chicago to roll out various enhancements to the roadster.
This year, Mazda will use the show to debut the new MX-5 Special Edition. You get your choice of red or white exterior color, along with a contrasting black folding hardtop.
Other changes include 17-inch wheels and some unique trim for the interior. It's a 2012 model, so it will be in showrooms soon.
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Briskel Birlond Baird Jr., "B.B.", passed away on May 13, 2013, after a very lengthy illness. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, NC, on March 30, 1932, to Briskel Birlond Baird Sr. and Margaret Williams Baird.
He was raised in Richmond, Va., where he played high school basketball at Thomas Jefferson High School and went on to play at Lynchburg College in Virginia. While there, he was student body president and active in numerous clubs and organizations.
In July 1954, he joined the Marine Corps and graduated boot camp at Paris Island. On Dec. 19, 1954, he married his college sweetheart, Barbara Joan Lampa. He attended flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, earning his wings in 1955.
Later that year he was transferred to Japan along with his wife and first-born son, Bruce, to serve a remote tour of duty. After leaving the service in 1958, he and his family moved to Mineral Wells, Texas, where he worked for Southern Airways as a flight commander on Fort Wolters Army base. B.B. was very proud of his 17 years of service as a helicopter instructor pilot and flight commander. He trained many Army helicopter pilots before their tours in Vietnam.
After the Vietnam War, he worked for American Airlines in Dallas as a simulator instructor for the 707 aircraft. He later went back to doing what he loved the most, flying helicopters for Petroleum Helicopters off the coast of Louisiana. In his later years, he worked for Cantex Industries in Mineral Wells as a materials manager until he retired.
He is survived by his loving companion of 21 years, Judy A. Buchanan; his children, Dr. Bruce B. Baird and wife, Cynthia, Dr. Bonnie Baird Furner and husband, Paul, Dr. Brian C. Baird and wife, Robin, Lance Buchanan, Wade Buchanan and wife, Teresa, Elizabeth Burnett and husband, Hank, and Orin Buchanan and wife, Amy. He is also survived by his 23 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and loving sister, Jacqueline Baird Warner, of Maryland.
The family will hold a memorial service at Baum-Carlock Bumgardner Funeral Home in Mineral Wells on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at 2 p.m.
Condolences may be left at www.bcbfuneralhome.com.
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Yes, there already is a on the corner of Route 19 and Fort Couch Road. However, CVS officials may build a new store kitty-corner from the existing location.
Representatives met with the Planning Commission on April 19 for a pre-application conference. They said they are looking into demolishing the Crossgates Plaza complex and constructing a new store, according to the township's director of Community Development Scott Brilhart. CVS's current building would then be available for other businesses to lease.
Crossgates Plaza is home to a variety of businesses right now including Einstein Bros Bagels, Boston Market, and . It is unknown what would happen to the businesses.
Gregg Schwotzer of Crossgates Inc. told Upper St. Clair Patch that a lot of people have approached the company about the property and that they have "no agreement with CVS." He said CVS has "no authority to talk to Upper St. Clair about the property at this time" and has "no clue why they would have done that."
A newer store is located across Fort Couch Road from the current CVS building.
What do you think of the possibility of a new CVS store on the Crossgates Plaza property? Tell us in the comments.


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To the editor:
The Amesbury High School class of 2015 recently held a very successful fundraising event. A wonderful evening of Italian foods, desserts, music and a chance to win a wonderful prize was very well attended. The proceeds from the event will offset the graduation week activities the class will plan in their senior year.
The following local businesses helped us by donating valuable prizes for our on-site raffle: Attentif Designs, Flatbread and Company, Cherry Bomb, Winfrey's Chocolate, In Good Hands, Trendsetters Boutique, RIM and Blackberry and Jackson Lumber. Please visit these generous establishments.
As well, our thanks go out to Stephen and Susan Petrou, owners of Olivia's and Krueger Flatbread in Haverhill, for donating and serving the dinners for this evening. We appreciate the support from Jeanne Sheehan and Walter Brooks, staff members at Amesbury High School, for assisting us this evening. We would also like to thank the parents of the students from the Class of 2015 for donating desserts and drinks for our successful event.
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Richard Hyfler, Forbes Staff
I'm a copy editor at Forbes. Not sure where I went wrong.
Downton Abbey and Girls have almost nothing in common, including their viewers. My wife and I seem to be within the target audience for both shows, while my twentysomething children—I know their real ages, incidentally—wouldn't watch Girls even if we promised not to call them for a month.
For the last few weeks new episodes of both shows have been broadcast on Sunday night. Last night we snuggled up on our love seat—it's a bit small, which makes it a like seat, I suppose—and our household of two watched both shows back to back, making comparisons inevitable.
The programming made a nice pendant to New York's recent Fashion Week, not a second of which was DVR'd by me. Two of Downton's older cast members, Penelope Wilton and Maggie Smith, were probably no less girlishly gleeful than Girls' Lena Dunham and Allison Williams were when they first glimpsed their costumes for last night's episode. At least, I hope they all appreciated what they were given to wear, because the outfits on both shows, as usual, managed to simultaneously stand out and be appropriate to the characters and situations. The set dressers on both shows also do great work.
The only thing out of place last night was one Downton character's anachronistic reference to a learning curve. But every episode has a few wayward locutions. By next season they'll be tweeting at Downton.
Last night we watched Downton first, and later, while watching Girls, I couldn't resist the fantasy that the show would be invaded by the Downton cast, in character, if only so that someone, anyone, would clean up after—well, after just about everyone. And a timely appearance by Carson, Downton's downstairs despot, would have prevented much grief and broken glass in Girls' wine cellar scene. He's also better suited to hostessing than Girls' Marnie. On the other hand, Girls seems to be a few seasons away from a baby that Carson could "have a chat" with.
Tempting as it is I won't bother to match the girls—I think we can familiarly refer to "the girls" as we once did to "the friends"—with their Crawley counterparts. The Girls boys, of course, have no upstairs equivalents on Downton.
Character differences extend to the nonhuman cast as well. This week on Girls a barking dog was residing in Adam's bathroom, along with one of Ray's books. Downton's dogs: pedigreed, silent, loyal. Girls' dognapped pooch: soulful and empathetic in the best mongrelly manner.
Both shows featured unfamiliar territories last night, visiting Scotland and Staten Island, which until now have escaped comparison. Downton's creator, Julian Fellowes, is a great admirer of Trollope, so the strangeness and unpleasantness of Scotland, as well as its beauty, will come as no surprise to readers of Trollope's Palliser novels. Staten Island on last night's Girls seemed no less unpleasant and strange, though the best views were of a distant shore. It's a long way from there to Manhattan, ferry or no.
Fellowes also shares with Trollope the habits of resolving every one of his characters' predicaments, not necessarily happily, and making good use of the ellipses between episodes, while Lena Dunham's characters lurch from one uncertainty to the next. Fellowes has the advantage of working in the past, where even the greatest calamities, like the Great War and the Spanish flu, have played out to their conclusions, which he can borrow from at his convenience. Lena Dunham has chosen to write a contemporary show, and the present is always messy. But the possibilities, fortunately, are infinite.
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I don't know which Downton character I should impersonate in order to call your attention to a stray "it's" instead of "its" in your post.
I noticed the "learning curve" scrap of dialog and told our assembled guests that it was an anachronism. They told me to shut up and pour more wine.
Yeah, what's this with the older folks watching "Girls"? We appreciate Lena, but some of the shenanigans are down right foreign. Oh my god, they're doing what with whom? However, I remain glued to the screen. You are absolutely right about the kids not watching.
"The only thing out of place last night was one Downton character's anachronistic reference to a learning curve."
"German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus coined the term during his research on memory and memorization in the late 19th century.
In his 1885 work, Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, Ebbinghaus described his findings regarding both the learning curve, or rate at which knowledge is gained…".
A cursory glance at the History of Psychology would have kept you from showing your ignorance of the term _learning curve_. Try not to be so smug in future, you don't have the smarts to pull it off.
Downton has a slew of anachronisms each episode. In the cricket episode, the downstairs women talk about starting a "fan club," though OED's first citation of the term is 1941. (By the early 1920s, "fan" had become common in the US but not in the UK.) My wife just tells me to keep quiet.
British TV-serial acting contracts being what they are (3 years, according to Julian Fellowes), we can surely anticipate several more gratuitous Downton deaths in upcoming seasons. I personally look forward to Season 12, during the 1960s, when the last survivor of the Grantham clan, Maggie Smith (all others having perished in the War, the Blitz, the General Strike, or the Killer Smog of 1952), still spry at 120, will sit alongside the Queen Mum at the Royal Variety Show, rattling her jewelry along with the Beatles.


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April 30-May 4:
Benjamin's Family Dining of Terre Haute, 3295 Fruitridge Ave (7 Critical, 5 Non-Critical) Handwash sink dirty; raw fish at 62 degrees, breading with juices not sifted and at room temperature — should be 41 degrees or less; no one in charge during hours of operation; cheese and egg containers with debris, mold on ice machine chute; cooked pork and chicken not date marked; cooked potatoes and sliced turkey found at 72 degrees —should be 41 degrees or less (discarded); cooked lasagna held past date to discard. Closed until reinspection on May 2.
Kroger J-987 & Fuel Center, 4714 S. U.S. 41 (2 Critical) Stainless steel sheet pans and bread pans found with burnt on food debris; found spray nozzle and other hardware items in seafood handwash sink.
Wendy's, 2803 Wabash Ave. (1 Critical, 3 Non-Critical) Time marked food held past 4 hours to discard (discarded).
500 Express, 2445 Hulman (1 Critical, 1 Non-Critical) No one in charge at time of inspection.
J Gumbo's, 2501 S. Third St. (1 Critical) Voodoo Chicken on steam table at 125 degrees — should be 135 degrees or more.
Burger King #11099, 2575 Indiana 46 (1 Critical) Mold observed on chute in ice machine.
Sweet Lou's Pizzeria, 8567 E Wabash Ave. (1 Critical) Pizza screens found with built-up debris and old food debris.
Ryan's #2333, 5501 S. U.S. 41 (1 Non-Critical)
Jordon Junction, 15817 S. Indiana 63 (1 Non-Critical)
Fannie May Fine Chocolates, 3401 S. U.S. 41 (1 Non-Critical)
Walgreens, 3603 S. U.S. 41 (1 Non-Critical)
Establishments with no violations:
Little Cee's Pizza, 2522 Krumbharr
Teppanyaki Grill Inc, 3810 S. U.S. 41 (1 Critical, 2 Non-Critical) Octopus salad, hard boiled eggs, honeydew, cantaloupe and mussels found at 50-61 degrees — should be 41 degrees or less.
Benjamin's Family Dining of Terre Haute, 3295 Fruitridge Ave. All items from closure on 5-1-12 are corrected. Approved to re-open for business.


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Our animals come from many parts of the world. Whether you are interested in mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, or fish - we have many species in each category that call Nashville Zoo home. Click on the animal's name below for a detailed profile about that animal and their interaction with Nashville Zoo.
Amphibians are cold-blooded, smooth-skinned animals from the Chordate Phylum. This class of animals includes frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. Some live on land and some in the water, but most species return to the water to mate and lay eggs. You can see many amphibians in the Unseen New World at Nashville Zoo.
Arthropods make up the largest phylum of animals and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others. Arthropods are characterized by the possession of a segmented body with appendages on each segment. All arthropods are covered by a hard exoskeleton made of chitin, which provides physical protection and resistance to desiccation. More than 80% of described living animal species are arthropods, with over a million modern species. Nashville Zoo's arthropods can be found in the Unseen New World.
Birds are any of various warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered vertebrates of the class Aves, having forelimbs modified to form wings. Nashville Zoo has many different species of birds in the Aviary, Critter Encounters, the Hyacinth Macaw Habitat, Bamboo Trail, Lorikeet Landing, and other places. In addition, we are dedicated to Piciformes conservation.
Fish are cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills. There are over 27,000 species of fish, making them the most diverse group of vertebrates. Nashville Zoo has many examples of salt-water and fresh-water fish which are found in The Unseen New World.
Mammals are one class of animals that have backbones, are warm-blooded, breath air and whose females have milk-secreting glands for their young. In the class Mammalia there are 19 orders and over 5,000 species of mammals, ranging from the 2-inch shrew to the 120-foot whale.
Reptiles are vertebrates that regulate body temperature externally, have dry, glandless skin covered with scales, breathe through lungs and lay large eggs that develop on land. Reptiles include turtles, snakes, and lizards. Many reptiles live in the Unseen New World at Nashville Zoo, and we also have lots of alligators in Alligator Cove!


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These will be updated after the polls close at 8 p.m.Brighton Township Supervisor (9 of 9 Reporting)
Results John Ewing
2245 Tom Murphy
6373 Brighton Township Board of Trustees (4 Positions)
(9 of 9 Reporting) Results Cathy Doughty
6315 Katheryne Friske 2053 Patrick Michel 5961 Mike Palmer 2060 Mike Slaton 6050 Lucille Weaire 5666 Brighton Area School Board (2 Positions) (22 of 22 Reporting)
Results Nick Fiani
6873 Jonathan Krause 7585 Kenneth R. Stahl 6701 Keith Van Hentenryck 4059 City of Brighton Bond Proposal (4 of 4 Reporting)
Results Yes 1833 No 1958 Brighton Schools Operating Millage Proposal (22 of 22 Reporting) Results Yes 11336 No 9739 Green Oak Road Millage Proposal (9 of 9 Reporting)
Results Yes 4592 No 4186
Livingston County Commissioner (10 of 10 reporting)
Results Kate Lawrence, Republican 7240 Bruce L. Schneider, Democrat 3486
State Representative, 42nd District (46 of 46 reporting)
Results Shanda Willis, Democrat 16453 Bill Rogers, Republican 31429
Check out Livingston County and statewide election results here.
City of Brighton and Brighton Township voters have plenty to decide on this Presidential election, from whether to pass a $5.6 million bond proposal for community infrastructure improvements to new Township Board and School Board members.
Find out everything you need to know about candidates, as well as local and statewide ballot proposals. Click here to locate your voting precinct.
In the meanwhile, stick with Brighton Patch all day Tuesday as Editor Nicole Krawcke reports live from various polling stations around town. If you hear of anything happening, want to share your voter number or are looking to share that iPhone photo you just snapped, email Nicole at firstname.lastname@example.com or text it to her at 517-488-5886.
8:00 PM: The polls have closed. Check back here on Brighton Patch throughout the night for the latest news and results.
4:00 PM: Brighton Township Clerk Ann Bollin said voter turnout remains steady throughout the township.
Bollin said she has about 96 percent of her absentee voter ballots back, and they continue to come in.
"It's going great, we're going to gave a good voter turnout overall," she said.
Bollin said that Brighton Township generally has good voter turnout, and predicts about 70 percent turnout for this year's presidential election.
3:30 PM: Brighton Area Schools' operating millage renewal is one of the many proposals on the ballet today. The length of the ballot, and the fact that the millage renewal is one of the last proposals, is some cause for concern, according to Brighton Superintendent Greg Gray.
"We would love it if the ballot were shorter, but it is what it is," he said. "We hope voters are informed to the point that they'll read the whole ballot language."
The renewal would continue to levy 18 mills on nonhomestead properties, including businesses and second homes.
Gray said if the millage renewal doesn't pass, it would be almost a $10 million hit on the district's general operating budget.
"That would make it a real challenge, obviously," Gray said.
8:45 AM: City of Brighton Precincts 3 and 4, located at the Brighton Education Community Center, were moving along at a steady pace on Tuesday morning.
As of 8:30 a.m., Precinct 3 had 180 voters, while Precinct 4 saw 98.
Brighton resident Jennifer Griffer said she voted for Mitt Romney because it was time for a change and she liked his business strategies.
She said the length of the ballot did not slow her down in the polls because she was informed about all of the statewide proposals beforehand.
"We were talking at home about the proposals and we found it interesting how the lingo seemed so different between the newspapers and the political mail sent to us," she said. "I voted wisely - for what was good for the people."
Anne Richardson said she actually had to redo her ballot because the machine did not take it the first time. So she spent twice as long at the polls.
Richardson said she voted for President Barack Obama.
"A lot of what Romney has said disagrees with what he has said previously," she said.
8:00 AM: Brighton Township Precinct 8, located at Spencer Elementary, had 60 voters as of 8 a.m. Precinct 3, also at Spencer, had 87 voters. Poll workers said turnout has been great, much better than the last presidential election in 2008.
During the last presidential election, the longest wait was about 5 minutes, according to poll workers. At 8:15 a.m. it was 30 to 40 minutes.
Brighton Township resident Vanessa Fuller said she voted for Obama.
"I think he was not given an ample amount of time to deal with the problems he started out with," she said.
Fuller said she voted for Incumbent Tom Murphy for Township Supervisor.
"I like his personality and his outspokenness," she said about Murphy. "The other candidate (John Ewing) - his personality didn't seem to fit the office."
Bill Clark said he voted for Romney because he agreed with his fiscal plan.
"I'm looking at long-term viability," he said.
7:00 AM: Polls are scheduled to open.


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Signings & Events Calendar
September 2012 – March 2013
Alitha and Ryan will be doing sketches for kids during the signing!
Purchase of NEW CRUSADERS: RISE OF THE HEROES #1 required for sketch, one per customer, time allowing.
Red Circle Comics presents "Ashes to Ashes," Part One! Our world demands heroes, and a new generation must rise! Over a decade ago, the super hero team known as The Mighty Crusaders did the impossible: they won. Successful in their battle against evil and finding they'd made the world a better place, the heroes settled down to the small town of Red Circle to start families, unwind and take a much-deserved rest. When the quiet town is rocked by the return of the ultimate evil, the super hero residents are obliterated! It's up to their heirs to fight for justice and crusade against evil. They are our last, best hope. They are The New Crusaders!
Head to Midtown Comics Grand Central on Wednesday September 19th from 12- 2pm to get your picture with the all new New York Comic Con 2012 Camaro, created in partnership with Chevy! NYCC will be on hand to giveaway cool stuff like t-shirts, stickers, posters, buttons, and even NYCC PASSES!!!!
Don't forget: New York Comic Con passes are on sale now at all Midtown Comics locations! Plus you'll get a FREE copy of Bloodshot #1 or X-O Manowar #1 courtesy of Valiant Comics!
Midtown Comics is honored to welcome legendary actor, Star Trek helmsman and internet sensation, George Takei! Join us as we celebrate the release of the all new Kevin Keller #6 from Archie Comics and get your copy signed by George at our Times Square store on Wednesday December 5th starting at 9pm.
Kevin Keller's creator, writer/artist Dan Parent, will also be in attendance!
*Purchase of Kevin Keller #6 is required to attend the signing.
*Tickets to this event will limited! PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY!
"By George!" – When the gang gets a school assignment to write about a person who has inspired them, Kevin chooses George Takei, the legendary Star Trek actor who came out several years ago. When Kevin hears that he's at a local convention, he recruits Jughead to go with him, unaware that Mr. Takei, moved by Kevin's article, has made a trip to Riverdale to pay him a visit. Kevin rushes to meet up with his idol, but will he make it in time?Script: Dan Parent
Art: Dan Parent, Rich Koslowski
Cover: Dan Parent
Variant Cover: Dan Parent
On Sale 12/5
It's the Midtown Comics Book Club! Join us for our monthly Graphic Novel book club at our Downtown store.
This month's book will be The Art of Betty and Veronica, and editors Craig Yoe and Victor Gorelick will be there to discuss the book with the club! If that's not enough to entice, free donuts will be served!
Don't have the book yet? Save 25% off cover price at any of our three stores (in-store only). Just mention the Midtown Comics Book Club at the cash register!
The Book Club will meet on Friday December 28th at 6:30PM at Midtown Comics Downtown.
See you there!
We will still be holding the book club, but unfortunately Becky Cloonan had to cancel. Fear not! We'll still be talking about this great book with the club!
Don't have the book yet? Save 25% off cover price at any of our three stores (in-store only). Just mention the Midtown Comics Book Club at the cash register!
The Book Club will meet on Friday March 29th at 6:30PM at Midtown Comics Downtown.
See you there!
Demo vol. 2-
The sequel to the Eisner-nominated and critically acclaimed graphic novel by writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan. This new volume takes a ground-level approach to superpowers and features six brand-new standalone stories of conflicted teens grappling with love, loss and the joy of finding their way in life.


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As depicted in earlier FireEye blogs, advanced cyber attacks are no strangers to the Asia Pacific region. In this blog, we take a deeper look at some of the advanced persistent threat (APT) malware that have significant presence in the APAC region, starting with PlugX (we detect it as Backdoor.APT.Kaba).
The PlugX / Kaba malware is a well-known remote access tool (RAT) believed to have been around for several years that continues to evolve itself in new attack campaigns. It is often seen used in APT campaigns alongside two other infamous RATs – PoisonIvy and Taidoor. For this blog, FireEye Labs has investigated PlugX samples discovered throughout 2013 as well as recent variants detected between January and June 2014. Countries on both sides of the Pacific incuding the United States as well as Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan were most hit by this malware, with attacks spanning multiple industry verticals. The top 5 most targeted verticals include Technology, Aerospace / Defense, Entertainment / Media, Telecommunications and Government (Federal).
Delivering the Attacks
PlugX is most commonly distributed via an exploit, but may also be delivered using a RAR self-extracting executable. Amanda Stewart has written an excellent blog and paper about the common components of the PlugX / Kaba RAT and how it capitalizes on the DLL side-loading technique. In general, the RAT consists of DLL components that are injected into the process memory of svchost.exe. To deliver the DLL components, a "dropper" must first be executed through the use of an exploit, or via social-engineering tactics over e-mail or web to entice the victims to load an executable file.
While RTF files exploiting CVE-2012-0158 are nothing new, they are still most frequently used in the delivery of PlugX to its targets. The same vulnerability has also been exploited through Excel spreadsheets and Word document files. More recently, a Flash zero-day vulnerability has been exploited to deliver a PlugX payload.
Where an exploit is not used, RAR self-extracting executable (SFX) files were commonly used throughout 2013. These files often appear to have a Word or PDF icon and launch a decoy document that is displayed to the victim. The PlugX RAT is then loaded in the background without the user's knowledge. While we have noticed a decrease in the use of this vector to deliver PlugX in 2014, it continues to be an effective technique for PlugX and other malware, so we do not expect its use to disappear entirely.
In the below example, the RAR SFX contains a script that loads the RAT (config.exe) and the decoy document (notice.doc).
Command and Control
We have found two dominant variants, SideBar and RasTLS, using 4 of the top 10 domains associated with the PlugX / Kaba command and control (C2) infrastructure. In fact, the 4 domains resolved to the same IP range based in Hong Kong likely operated by the same threat group(s).
The SideBar variant is delivered through RTF, Word and Excel files. Upon successfully exploitation, it drops "dw20.dll" to the %TEMP% folder. This "dw20.dll" continues to install the following files:
- %ALLUSERS%\WS\Gadget.exe (MD5: 6b97b3cd2fcfb4b74985143230441463)
- %ALLUSERS%\WS\SideBar.dll (MD5: 123e1841cc596c1f40e2e6693ea7dcac)
- %ALLUSERS%\WS\SideBar.dll.doc (MD5: a0c93bdc089e1338cc392108a0e57f2f)
A service registry key is created to start "Gadget.exe" upon reboot of the infected system.
"Gadget.exe" is part of a benign "TENCENT Sidebar" application digitally signed by "Tencent Technology(Shenzhen) Company Limited ". Using the DLL-side loading method, a malicious version of"SideBar.dll" is loaded and executes the exported function "Main".
"SideBar.dll" is a loader for "SideBar.dll.doc", executing code at offset 0. "SideBar.dll.doc" decodes a part of its own data and is responsible for deflating a backdoor component. It spawns a new svchost.exe process and injects the backdoor into memory. This backdoor component remains only in memory, and is never saved to disk.
Version information can often be found in PlugX's process memory. In SideBar, a DWORD value storing the internal version number was 0×20120123. The path names found in the deflated backdoor's process memory indicating that this PlugX variant is version 6.0:
- "d:\work\plug6.0(360)(gadget)"
The variant connects to fast.bacguarp.com and bbs.zuesinfo.com over port 8080.
While the RasTls variant is also dropped by document exploits, the dropped files are different. RasTls does not use the DLL side-loading method found in older variants [3]. The DWORD used to store the internal version number of RasTls was 0×20130810.
- %ALLUSERS%\DRM\RasTls\RasTls.exe
"RasTls.exe" spawns "svchost.exe" and injects a deflated backdoor component into memory. The deflated backdoor component in memory contains a "XV" marker, instead of "MZ" and "PE" as found in regular Windows portal executable (PE) files. This is because "RasTls.exe" manually loads each section of deflated file into memory, so the file does not have to be a complete PE image.
The variant doesn't contain strings implying version. The variant accept commands like as "ST1", "ST2", "TT1","TT2" which are different from version 6.
In memory space in the "svchost.exe", we can see the decoded configuration information:
All RasTls variants have largely identical configuration and connects to scqf.bacguarp.com and scqf.zuesinfo.com over port 443. The "My_Name" mutex is also common to all RasTls variants.
PlugX Encryption Algorithm
PlugX has a variety of encryption algorithms used to encrypt its data across variants. However, the encryption style is largely similar as depicted in Figure 7.
In RasTls, the DWORD decryption key was found in the first four bytes of the encrypted string. It was also less aggressive in encrypting and hiding its data. In older variants such as "win3dx.DLL" (MD5: 7ADAE0335C9D6C9F3826CDE9747438B7), most API names were decrypted before loading and nullified after use. This makes understanding the malware slightly more difficult for malware analysts.
The supported functionalities are largely similar where it uses the identical command code. Below is a list of PlugX commands for file system manipulation:
- 0×3000: GetDiskRelatedInformation
- 0×3001: SearchDirectoryForFiles
- 0×3002: SearchDirectoryRecursively
- 0×3004: ReadFile
- 0×3007: WriteFile
- 0x300A: CreateDirectory
- 0x300C: CreateWindowsDesktop
- 0x300D: PerformSH_FileOperation
- 0x300E: ExpandEnvironmentVariable
Some improvements were made by its developers. For example, the key logger function was updated to utilize the GetRawInputData API to collect keystrokes. "RegisterRawInputDevices" and "GetRawInputData" were two of the few API names that remain encrypted in RasTls.
PlugX / Kaba Trending
Figure 9 shows the trending of total PlugX / Kaba infections and their variants: SideBar and RasTLS. The spike in September 2013 was caused by SideBar. In 2014, we see SideBar and RasTLS on an inverse trend, with the latter on a steady increase.
Figure 10 shows the distribution of SideBar/RasTls variants by country. The C2 servers are located in Hong Kong, where much of the attacks have occurred. We also find a variety of countries targeted by these variants. In some of the exploit documents delivering these variants, the content revolves around the theme of NGOs and socio-political events in China and Japan. These are content that would likely be of interest to the victims who would be opening the documents.
The Asia Pacific region remains a highly attractive target of advanced cyber-attacks. Many threat groups have a particular in interest in this region, and are likely continue to launch new attacks against targets here. We recommend that users in this region block access to the above C2 servers. FireEye Labs will continue to monitor and report on new PlugX / Kaba developments.


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The wines on offer will all be 2009s. Tesco will also be selling Chateau Cheval Blanc, Chateau Cos d'Estournel, and Chateau Pontet Canet.
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RALEIGH — Mayor Nancy McFarlane moved the City Councils discussion of a scheduling conflict behind closed doors Tuesday, calling the talk a confidential personnel matter because it related to the city manager search process.
Until now, the council has held open meetings about the hiring process, allowing the public to attend as they discuss timelines, recruiting efforts and possible interview questions. McFarlane said no job candidates were discussed at Tuesdays meeting the council didnt receive copies of the 80 applications until Friday afternoon.
Its a personnel matter, and certainly you have the potential for things to come up in that meeting that are of a sensitive nature, she said.
McFarlane called for the closed session a few minutes after Councilwoman Mary-Ann Baldwin brought up a concern about the hiring timeline in open session. Baldwin said that the mayors Sept. 13 meeting date to select finalists for the manager post wont work for her and Councilman Eugene Weeks. Weeks and Baldwin cast the lone dissenting votes when the council voted to fire longtime manager Russell Allen in April.
My sense is that this is the most important meeting we will have, and I wanted to make sure that everyones voices were heard, Baldwin said.
No one responded to Baldwins concerns during the open meeting, and McFarlane moved on to the next agenda item. After the closed session, the mayor said the private meeting resolved the scheduling issue.
The council will now discuss finalists during two meetings one on Thursday, one on Friday. Council members at each meeting will identify their top candidates, and those at the Friday session will compile the results and vote on a list of three to five finalists. McFarlane said the decision needs to be made next week to stick to the councils Oct. 1 search deadline.
Its not perfect, but it was the best compromise that we could reach, Baldwin said.
But reaching that compromise behind closed doors raised concerns about whether the session followed the states open meeting laws.
If what they were doing was setting a meeting time or date, why did they go into closed session at all? said Hugh Stevens, an attorney who represents the N.C. Press Association. I think it was questionable at best whether that justified a closed session.
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Huawei invests $150 million in Bangalore R&DChinese mega-company Huawei is ploughing $150 million into an R&D campus in Bangalore, India.
Vodafone's India offices raidedInspector Knacker of the Indian Federal Police has conducted searches at Vodafone's Indian unit and Bharti Airtel's offices.
Disruption predicted for mobile networks in AfricaIQ 2011Steady and regulated spectrum is vital for the whole ecosystem. What is interesting to us is there involvement of Chinese and Indian companies, busy building infrastructure and setting up networks. They have been there for years.
India probes Apple over antitrust behaviourApple had a policy that it only sold the phone to those companies who were appointed and anointed by Steve Jobs himself. These were Bharti Airtel and Aircel and they had to sacrifice money to the great Cupertino God before they got such a deal.
Emerging markets to see mobile music access boomThis means that firms such as China Mobile and Bharti Airtel are particularly well placed to benefit from the shift towards cloud based streaming services.
3.8 million Mobile Number Portability requests surface in IndiaThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests nation-wide reached 3.8 million by the end of February. The big question is - who wins and who loses?
Vodafone cheesed off at India's TRAI spectrum suggestionsThese recommendations, if taken by the Indian government, will affect top dogs like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and the state-owned BSNL, which will have to pay for the amount of spectrum they are holding beyond 6.2 MHz.
Controversial Huawei proposes $2 billion India market pushHuawei vice president Yao Weimin told the papers that India is the company's largest overseas market and it already has contracts with five India-based carriers - Reliance Communication, Tata Communications, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Aircel.
"Real Radia" tapes in Indian 2G scandal on the wayRaja was allegedly heard saying to Radia, "Go and tell Sunil Mittal (Bharti Airtel Chairman) that he has to work with Raja for five more years.
Politicians, industrialists and journalists take role in Indian 2G scamLetter from IndiaRaja was even heard saying to Radia, "Go and tell Sunil Mittal (Bharti Airtel Chairman) that he has to work with Raja for 5 more years.
Qualcomm wants to sell its Indian Spectrum holdingsAlthough it's approached big operators including Vodafone and Essar, reports in the Economic Times say it's India's Bharti Airtel and Aircel Cellular which are interested in buying the spectrum.
3G set to storm Africa, will be far more important than broadbandAnalysisDobardziev sees the major players in Africa as IBM – which recently teamed up with Bharti Airtel to manage the computing technology and services behind the Indian company's mobile communications network in 16 African countries - and Vodafone, which has operations in eight to ten markets, including S
African countries suffer from 17 years "digital lag"The report followed an announcement last month from IBM that it was teaming up with Bharti Airtel to manage the computing technology and services behind the Indian company's mobile communications network in 16 African countries.
India's state-owned BSNL reports worst financial figures for 10 yearsDespite its loss the company's market share in terms of revenue stands at 19.5 percent putting it in second place after Bharti Airtel. It also registered a strong growth of 47 per cent in the broadband segment in 2009-10 – broadband revenue went up to $105.001 million (Rs 2,485 crore)
Bharti Airtel to invest $100m in UgandaIndian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel is to invest $100m in Uganda over the next two years, reports Uganda's New Vision Newspaper today.
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Valpo Drops Second Straight at UMKC
Monday, January 12, 2004A 22-2 run midway through the second half helped lead UMKC to a 70-54 victory over Valparaiso on Monday evening in Kansas City, Mo.
The Kangaroos shot 58% for the game and made 14 of their first 17 shots in the second half.
UMKC took an early 11-4 lead before Valpo scored 15 of the next 19 points to take a four point lead at the 6:25 mark after a jumper by Betsy Rietema (Grand Rapids, Mich./Christian H.S.). A 9-0 spurt near the end of the half gave UMKC the lead for good, and the Kangaroos took a 30-25 advantage into the locker room.
Jamie Gutowski (Crown Point, Ind./Andrean H.S.) opened the second-half with a triple to cut the deficit to two, and the Crusaders were down just five, 42-37, at the 12:49 mark before the run by the Kangaroos pushed the lead to 25. Valpo scored the last seven points of the game to cut into the lead.
Rietema led the Brown and Gold with 15 points and seven rebounds, while Suzie Hammel (Lafeyette, Ind./Lebanon H.S.) added 12 points and registered five steals. Gutowski added 11 more points for the Crusaders.
Casey Ellis led the Kangaroos with 22 points, 13 in the second half, while Carlai Moore added 17 points and ten rebounds. Katie Houlehan contributed 12 points to the UMKC offense.
Valpo forced 23 UMKC turnovers, but committed 16 of its own and shot just 36.8% from the floor. UMKC (7-7, 4-0 Mid-Con) outrebounded the Crusaders 35-25.
Valparaiso (7-8, 2-2) will return home on Saturday afternoon to host Western Illinois in a 2:05 p.m. contest at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
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Goggle guru Aqua Sphere has been asked to provide goggles and masks to the fourth series of ITV's life-changing television programme The Biggest Loser. The show joins the increasing number of primetime TV shows using Aqua Sphere's benchmark aquatic eyewear innovation to protect participants' eyes during sports activities and active challenges.
A hugely positive series which transforms people's lives, The Biggest Loser sees 14 overweight people move into a healthy retreat for seven weeks and undergo an intense exercise regime involving lots of different activities. Their weight loss is monitored weekly and the winner is decided 10-12 weeks after they leave the retreat when they are weighed for a final time and "The Biggest Loser" is crowned the winner. Last year's Final attracted over 1.4 million viewers and the winner, Kevin Sage, lost 9 stone 6lbs and went on to complete the London Marathon. Scheduled for transmission on ITV1 in January 2011, the producers predict even higher figures for the fourth series as a result of its mid-week primetime slot and increasingly popular international format.


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Oh, Week 1, you cruel, cruel mistress. Just when we think we have it all figured out, the perfect team, the perfect season, you bring us back to reality. Yes, this week we had football — real NFL football. Football that counted! But we also saw how the offseason, that tricky devil that...Read more →


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A Guided Tour of Ethereal
I recently started using a network tool called Ethereal. For those familiar with tcpdump, think of Ethereal as a GUI form of tcpdump that shows you the whole packet and can break down the packet to show individual fields. For those who haven't used tcpdump or similar packet sniffers, it might be best to show the capabilities of Ethereal through a few examples.
When you start Ethereal, it looks like the graphic shown in Figure 1. Typically, you want to capture some data from the network attached to your workstation; do this by selecting Capture→Start..., which brings up the dialog shown in Figure 2. When you've captured the data you need, stop the capture and examine it. Figure 3 shows a capture of some IPv6 traffic, where I've selected an ICMPv6 packet (in the top frame) and expanded the IPv6 and ICMPv6 contents to select the IPv6 source address (in the middle frame). Ethereal automatically highlights the raw bytes corresponding to the selected field—in this case, source address—within the packet in the bottom frame. This type of functionality makes Ethereal useful for understanding various network protocols, and I definitely recommend its use as a teaching or self-education aid in conjunction with networking RFCs. Ethereal also is useful for educating users and management about the dangers of using protocols that send data in clear text, as shown for File Transfer Protocol in Figure 4.
Ethereal also is useful for investigating proprietary protocols or other networking protocols that are not well documented. Figure 5 shows a somewhat contrived example—rsync. This protocol is in widespread use because of its ability to save significant bandwidth but is essentially defined by the source code to the application. I used Ethereal to capture a number of rsync transactions and figured out how the protocol works—at least enough to write an rsync protocol dissector for Ethereal. I understand the Samba team uses Ethereal and a number of other tools to develop clients and servers that interoperate with the Microsoft CIFS implementations, because the Microsoft documentation for these protocols is incomplete or incorrect.
I also have used Ethereal as a part of network application testing (on zcip and Service Location Protocol) to assess correctness and response times. Ethereal time-tags each transaction, so you easily can see the relationship between packets.
Ethereal works by capturing packets through a reasonably portable library called libpcap, which on Linux accesses the packets on the network through using a kernel mechanism called packet socket. It is possible to disable this option under Linux, although probably all vendor kernels have it enabled, and it is enabled in the default kernel configuration for most architectures on Linux kernels. Other operating systems have different interfaces, but libpcap abstracts this away and provides a common API.
Having received a copy of the network packets, Ethereal builds an internal linked list and saves the packets to a file. It then determines what protocol the packet is carrying based on the port numbers, type fields in the supporting protocols or a heuristic that guesses the protocol based on the contents of the field. It is worth noting that this approach essentially is informed guesswork and is by no means infallible. For example, traffic to port 53 probably is DNS, but there is no reason why a network administrator could not choose to run another service on that port. In addition, Ethereal supports an option to interpret a particular packet as a different protocol, using Tools→Decode As.
Based on the guessed protocol, Ethereal decodes (dissects, in Ethereal nomenclature) the packet. Each protocol supported by Ethereal is handled through a bit of code known as a dissector. At the time of this writing, 333 dissectors are built in to Ethereal, some of which handle more than one protocol. Protocols also can be provided as plugins, which are loaded dynamically. Depending on the protocol and the level of sophistication provided by the dissector code, the packets can be broken down for analysis of individual bits or they can be presented at a very high level. Both options are depicted in Figure 6, where the TCP dissector shows the individual bits set in the flags, but the IMAP dissector breaks out only two fields. It is worth noting that IMAP is a text-based protocol, so a simple ASCII dump of the packet contents is an appropriate way to show them.
application would
That application would be the ethereal GUI.
This way:
-no need for X on router
-no need to install ethereal on client
-no need to transmit all the packets over the wire, minimal network impact (packet processing would be server-side)
Re: A Guided Tour of Ethereal
Regarding the ability to capture packets remotely:
While it's true that Ethereal cannot do this dynamically, i.e.; with an agent on the remote end, Ethereal can read packet captures from command line tools such as tcpdump and snoop.
I use both of these tools to capture packets from Firewalls, Routers, servers, etc. I also use a beat-up Pentium-90 laptop as a network monitor that I can leave at a customer site. Once the data is collected I can analyse it with Ethereal. Ethereal will also read packet captures from commercial tools such as NAI's Sniffer tools.
Ethereal is a tool that just keeps getting a little better each year. I've used it to solve a variety of problems, but I've also used it to teach networking protocols. It's the best tool I know of to show students exactly how protocols are encapsulated in each other and to demonstrate exactly how data gets across the network.
On a slightly different note, it's interesting that I'm posting this comment on January 10th 2004, but the article claims to have been posted on Feburary 1st, 2004.
Thanks for the Article,
Brad Silva
I use SSH + tethereal from the command line to do remote captures
Sure that's what i do but it'
Sure that's what i do but it's so much nicer to see live rolling capture in the ethereal GUI.
Re: A Guided Tour of Ethereal
I think the date reflects the publishing date for the magazine, not for the article.
I agree with the remote capture comments, and some work on remote capture has been done, but when you are working with the Ethereal GUI, it would sometimes be nice to do "now show me what that remote machine is seeing, in real time". That needs more work.
Brad Hards
Re: A Guided Tour of Ethereal
Isn't that was remote (secure) X display is for? Which is tremendously less overhead, potentially, than sending the entire packet contents across the wire to the "local" monitoring app?
Well ideally you would naviga
Well ideally you would navigate to a webpage that would contain a java application.
That application would be the ethereal GUI.
This way:
-no need for X on router
-no need to install ethereal on client
-no need to transmit all the packets over the wire, minimal network impact (packet processing would be server-side)
Negative aspects:
-More CPU usage on router
-We need is someone to implement this!
An X display on a router is a
An X display on a router is a waste of resources, especially since you'll probably end up doing all your work in shell windows inside X!
Re: A Guided Tour of Ethereal
Actually, the RMON (and RMON2) protocol is substantially thinner than remote X. Ethereal just needs an RMON/RMON2 interface.
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TUPPER LAKE — A Beekmantown man faces a felony charge after crashing his car into an apartment building.
Marc A. Bonbrest, 24, led police on a multi-county pursuit Oct. 4 while driving a 2011 blue, four-door Subaru sedan at an allegedly high rate of speed, according to Ray Brook-based State Police.
He was chased by police for about 20 minutes from St. Lawrence County to Franklin County, through the Village of Tupper Lake before crashing into an apartment house at 68 Lake St. where people were home at the time.
Bonbrest was arrested at about 5:12 p.m. and charged with two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, a felony. He also faces two counts of criminal mischief causing reckless damage to a property in an amount exceeding $250 and third-degree unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors.
He was arraigned in the Village of Tupper Lake Court and remanded to Franklin County Jail in lieu of $1,000 cash or $2,500 bond.
Bonbrest was later released from jail on a court order, according to prison records.
He is due back in court Oct. 22.
PLATTSBURGH — A Plattsburgh man faces two felony charges following an alleged physical domestic dispute.
Kyle S. Burdick, 21, was arrested at about 2:13 p.m Oct. 6 following an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend over a set of keys, according to Chazy-based State Police.
He was allegedly observed crawling into his girlfriend's home through a bedroom window before a physical altercation erupted between the two.
Police said Burdick slammed the woman's head into a wall before breaking into the bathroom where she was trying to hide, to continue the assault.
A neighbor heard the commotion and went next door to intervene before taking the woman to the Plattsburgh Police Department to file a report.
State Police were able to locate Burdick and arrest him a short time later.
He was charged with second-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury and first-degree criminal contempt, both felonies.
Burdick also faces a misdemeanor criminal obstruction of breathing charge, police said.
He was arraigned in the Town of Plattsburgh Court and was remanded to Clinton County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash.
Police reports did not specify when Burdick is due back in court.
PLATTSBURGH — A Peru man was arrested for alleged felony DWI.
William J. Duprey, 40, was taken into custody at about 10:10 p.m. Oct. 6 on Military Turnpike near Rugar Street after Plattsburgh-based State Police said he was driving without headlights.
Upon further investigation, police said Duprey allegedly appeared intoxicated and was later arrested.
He was charged with DWI with a previous conviction within 10 years and operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content exceeding 0.08 percent, both felonies.
Duprey was also charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, and issued an infraction for operating without headlights.
He was arraigned in the Town of Plattsburgh Court and released on an appearance ticket, according to police report.
No further information was available.
PERU — A Peru teenager was arrested for alleged felony criminal mischief.
Dillen M. Crowningshield, 17, was taken into custody at about 5 p.m. Oct. 8 at 53 Mark Way after Plattsburgh-based State Police said he allegedly threw a personal computer on the floor, kicked it and tore the wires out in the heat of an argument.
He was charged with third-degree criminal mischief, a felony.
Crowningshield was arraigned in the Town of Peru Court and released to his mother's custody on an appearance ticket for Oct. 10.
ELIZABETHTOWN — A Keeseville woman was arraigned on welfare fraud and false-instrument charges.
Sara Hebert, 23, was arraigned Oct. 4 before Judge William Garrison following her arrest Sept. 21 for fifth-degree welfare fraud, a misdemeanor, and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a felony, according to a statement from the Essex Count Department of Social Services.
She was able to make restitution of $243.10 and the case was subsequently adjourned in contemplation of dismissal.
HARRIETSTOWN — A Homer man was injured when his motorcycle collided with a deer.
Steven R. Cinquanti, 53, was riding his bike at about 11:02 a.m. Oct. 8 on State Route 3 near Ampersand Avenue when a deer struck the left side of the bike, according to Ray Brook-based State Police.
He was transported by Saranac Lake EMS to Adirondack Medical Center, where the was treated for a fractured hand and later released.
PLATTSBURGH — A two-car motor vehicle accident on Beekman Street sent one person to the hospital for treatment.
Plattsburgh City Police were called to the accident at the intersection of Beekman and Cornelia streets at about 1:38 a.m. Oct. 9. According to police reports, a white Chevrolet City Taxi sedan driven by Valentin Yanez, 59, of Plattsburgh struck a utility pole after a red Pontiac driven by Coty Allen, 22, of Plattsburgh tried to beat the traffic light, causing the accident.
Passengers in both cars were not injured.
Yanez was transported to CVPH Medical Center where he was treated for minor injuries, police said, and released.
Police said Allen allegedly appeared to be under the influence of alcohol following the crash and failed to pass field sobriety tests.
He faces misdemeanor DWI charges and was released on an appearance ticket.
PERU — At least one person was injured in a two-car accident on Brand Hollow Road.
Joe L. Maldonado, 28, of Plattsburgh was headed south in a Chevy Cavalier on Eccles Road at about 1:33 p.m. Oct. 10 when he failed to stop at a stop sign near the intersection of Brand Hollow Road, according to Plattsburgh-based State Police.
His car struck a Chevy 1500 driven by Marc Jenkins, 35, of Corinth, who was driving west, causing the pickup truck to overturn.
Police reports said at least one person was transported to CVPH for treatment, but no further information was available.
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The rich burgundy of the dining room has a less busy look than the paisley wallpaper.
The past couple of years in January, we took a month-long break during Asheville's slow season for tourism, and became tourists ourselves in Mexico. OK, so we weren't just tourists; we also got our teeth fixed at this great dentist.
This year, our off-season wish list of projects at Inn on Main Street got too long to take a month off, so after a too-short week of kayaking and cycling around Cedar Key in Florida, we put on the grubby clothes and dug in.
We stripped wallpaper and painted the parlor, rearranging the furnishings to obey the feng shui expertise of a friend. We were afraid of altering the Victorian authenticity of those rooms, but after we finished the parlor re-do, we realized that it doesn't hurt to let go of some of that antique excess.
That redecorating felt so good, we decided to tear out the reddish paisley wallpaper in the dining room, and paint that room in a similar deep burgundy color. The result was startling, even though the color scheme didn't change. The rich, dark walls show off the artwork and add to the warmth of the room. One guest said he felt like he was in an art gallery.
At that point, Nancy was unstoppable, and repainted the pink Monroe room in a light gray with very subtle pink undertones. The walls now project a rich and understated feel very different from the girly froufrou that we enjoyed, but found overwhelming. Now Nancy is eyeing the Ayers room for a similar treatment.
After 14 years as innkeepers here in Weaverville, we fight any tendency to get tired, or to let our inn look tired. A bed and breakfast should look historic, yet fresh. We especially want to keep the experience for returning guests comfortable and familiar, yet new and surprising.
As the weather warms and the back porch beckons, we hope that, like our rooms, familiar faces will return with new stories to tell.
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If your party books two or more rooms for two nights or longer, we'll treat your group to a soak in an outdoor tub beside the river at Hot Springs Spa.
Celebrate your love year-round, including your anniversary or birthday. Two nights at Inn on Main Street with a pair of two-day tickets to the Biltmore Estate and a dozen red roses in an arrangement.
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