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When does making an ace at a par 4 take a back seat in local news?
When someone else does the same thing, just two holes after making a conventional hole-in-on at a different course.
Adam Demarsh of Chicopee accomplished the rare feat, recording "1" at the 285-yard par-4 ninth hole at Chicopee Country Club on July 9.
And if he was upstaged, it was with good reason.
A day earlier, Rick O'Neill of Pittsfield made two aces during a three-hole span at Donnybrook Country Club in Lanesboro.
O'Neill aced the 138-yard par-3 fourth hole, then holed out from the tee at the 348-yard, par-4 sixth.
Major golf publications place odds of making two aces during the same round to be 67 million-to-1.
O'Neill, 48, had played 35 years before making an ace.
Consensus odds lists the possibility of making an ace at a par-4 to be 1 million to one.
O'Neill described himself as an "above-average golfer" who plays at the Berkshire County course about a dozen times each season.
The two-ace-in-one-round feat is the region's first since Sue McClellan of Florence did so at Berkshire Hills CC in Aug. 2007. The Western Mass. Golf Hall of Famer aced the 13th and 17th holes at the Pittsfield course.
Back to Demarsh . . . he used a driver, while playing with Tony Patterson during his regular Tuesday night league play round.
The ace there at the straight-away, downhill hole seems to happen every 12 years.
John Glynn of Holbrook was the last to do so, using a driver when the hole played at 305 yards during the Massachusetts Public Links Championship in 2001.
It was reported then that it was first hole-in-one made there since Jeff Cyboron of Chicopee made double eagle in Sept. 1989.
REPUBLICAN JUNIOR: Entries close Friday for The Republican's 37th Junior Golf Tournament.
Dates are Aug. 6-7 at Franconia and Veterans golf courses in Springfield.
Cost is $5 for the ages 20-and-under tournament. Tee times will be first published Aug. 1.
Click here for entry form information.
AGELESS WONDERS: A pair of locals matched their age last week,
Doug Link of Westfield carded a 75 at his home course Worthington GC, using two birdies to accomplish the feat for the first time.
Dick Simmons used five straight 3s and a back-nine 33 to post a 70 at home course Crumpin-Fox Club in Bernardston .
LOCAL NOTES: Wyckoff CC pro Tony Kelley and amateur Jay Wojtowicz teamed to win the Connecticut Section PGA Pro-Officer tournament at Fox Hopyard GC in East Haddam, Conn. Kelley fired a 63 in the team competition. Kelley was the top local finisher (tied for 15th) at the Connecticut Senior Open at Shennecossett GC in Groton . . . Jaelyn DeBoise of Springfield won the girls age 7-9 division at a regional Drive, Chip and Putt competition at Triggs Memorial GC in Providence. She advanced to a New England team qualifier Aug. 12 at Pinehills GC in Plymouth . . . Longmeadow's Parker Riordan (second, 75) and Robert Libiszewski (third, 76) posted top-5 finishes at the Connecticut Section PGA Junior event at The Ranch GC in Southwick Tuesday.
HALL OF FAMER: Former Crumpin-Fox Club golf pro Ron Beck was one of three people named to the Connecticut Section PGA Hall of Fame's Class of 2013. Vic Svenberg and Fran Marrello will also be inducted in a November ceremony at Lake of Isles in Stonington, Conn.
Beck spent 12 years at Crumpin-Fox, and the last 13 at sister-course Fox Hopyard.
Marrello has won a total 21 Connecticut Section PGA tournament titles, while Svenberg was head pro at Copper Hills GC for 37 years.
LOCAL TOURNEYS: Oak Ridge GC will hosts the 33rd Eastern Amateur Two-Ball Open July 27-28. Divisions include Golf, Blue and Senior. Call (413) 789-7307 for more information . . . Chicopee CC runs its annual Appreciation Day Aug. 3 with a double shotgun. all (413) 594-9295 . . . Tekoa CC hosts the Women's Golf Classic & Fashion Show Aug. 25. Proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Westfield. Call 9413) 562-2301 for more information.


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L.A.'s French Jews react to Toulouse killings
French Jews in Southern California reacted with sadness and disgust, but not surprise, to the shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, that left three children and one teacher dead.
"In France you are scared – you cannot even wear a kippah on the street," said Francky Perez, who moved with his wife from Paris to Los Angeles three years ago to allow their children, now 6 and 7, to express their Judaism in a safe environment. "Even if what happened in Toulouse turns out not to be anti-Semitism, you cannot pretend that hate doesn't exist in France. It's a reality."
At press time Tuesday, the gunman remained at large. On Monday, a man on a motorcycle opened fire as students and parents were entering Ozar Hatorah at the start of the day, then chased students into the school as he continued shooting. Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two sons, Gavriel, 3, and Aryeh, 6, were killed. The school's principal, Rabbi Yaacov Monsonego, saw his 7-year-old daughter Miriam killed in front of him. A 17-year-old boy is in critical condition.
The area in southwestern France remains under heavy security.
"We're all absolutely shocked. A tragedy like this shows the worst of human nature, if we can still talk about human nature in this case," said David Martinon, France's consul general in Los Angeles.
French investigators have linked the shooting at the 200-student school to two shootings in the area last week that killed three soldiers and left another critically injured. The soldiers were of North African and Caribbean descent.
"Even though the anti-Semitic aspect of the murders at the school is evident and absolutely horrible, it is difficult to draw a conclusion from all three incidents," Martinon said. "We have to let the police do their work and arrive at their results."
Martinon said that while anti-Semitism is undeniably an issue in France, the government works closely with law enforcement and the Jewish community to address it.
Whether the shooting was the work of a crazed gunman or an organized neo-Nazi or anti-Israel cell, it should raise alarms for Jews all over, said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
"What we do know is that this is a new level of evil, because when a shooter on a motorcycle targets innocent children … this is a wake up call," Hier said. "This is not a swastika on Jewish school or a synagogue; this is murder and mayhem."
The Anti-Defamation League said law enforcement does not believe there is any increase in the threat level to American Jewish institutions, but the watchdog organization warned of possible copycat attacks and reminded schools and institutions to review standing security procedures.
Miriam Prum-Hess, director of the Centers for Excellence in Day School Education and Educational Engagement at the Los Angeles Bureau of Jewish Education, said she received phone calls from schools concerned about security.
At Kadima Academy in West Hills, the administration tightened security and kept a close eye on the front gate, according to head of school Bill Cohen.
Kadima middle-school students wrote letters of support to the students in Toulouse, and several schools said special prayers for the victims and survivors.
France, which has one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe, had 389 reported acts of anti-Semitism in 2011, according to Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France.
France is working hard to fight anti-Semitism, according to a press officer at the French consulate in LA. The country is figuring out how to contend with a new breed of anti-Semitism, coming mostly from Muslim immigrants, while continuing to stanch anti-Semitism that comes from extreme right elements. The number of anti-Semitic incidents dropped 43 percent between 2009 and 2010, the press officer said.
Recent events build on the still-bitter legacy of Vichy France of the World War II era, when French military and police cooperated with the Nazi roundup of Jews.
But this week, French people of all backgrounds united in horror in response to the killing of Jewish children, with strong support from President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been an ally of the Jewish community.
Martinon said he has strong relationships with Jewish leaders in Los Angeles.
There is a sizeable Franco-Jewish community in Los Angeles, but its members prefer to blend into existing institutions rather than form their own organizations, said Francky Perez, who runs French programming for Jewish Life TV in Los Angeles, and works at the Jewish radio station in France. He also has a band in France and is a DJ for the French Jewish community in Los Angeles.
Perez points to he case of Ilan Halimi, who in 2006 was kidnapped in Paris and tortured for 24 days by a group calling itself Gang of Barbarians, which targeted Jews. Halimi died after his brutalized body was strapped to a tree.
Perez said an old video of Ariel Sharon urging Jews to leave France is again circulating among French Jews.
"We always knew that France is the most anti-Semitic country in the world. We've known that for centuries," said Julien Bohbot, owner of Delice Bakery on Pico Boulevard, who lived in France in the 1970s and 80s.
Bohbot said many of his compatriots stopped by his French kosher bakery on Monday morning after they heard of the shooting.
"Everybody who came in this morning was devastated and so saddened," Bohbot said. "The French have great food and wine and cheese, but deep inside there is still anti-Semitism."
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Didn't they watch, Jurassic Park?
Those suckers really look like the could throw down
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Not sure if this is a good idea or pointless to be honest. If we bring back the auroch, we'll need the wolves and all the other predators. And there was a reason man hunted them to extinction :/
Didn't they watch, Jurassic Park?
Those suckers really look like the could throw down
Nice. Then they can try the Bos:
It would be nice to see what Grok actually hunted for food. Cows give the impression that they would have been easy to hunt, until you see a pumped bull.
With a big set of horns, that is not an animal you would tackle lightly. Never mind a bigger version...
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EAST ORANGE — East Orange police released a composite sketch today of a robbery suspect who has targeted at least three women waiting alone at bus stops at night.
Police also released an updated description of the man, described as a 5-foot-7 black male with dark complexion, between ages 18 to 20 and last seen wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
The suspect weighs about 140 pounds, has short black hair, no facial hair and a distinctive gap between his front teeth, according to police.
Earlier this month, Police Chief William C. Robinson sought the public's help to find the suspect. The suspected robber allegedly held the women at knife point, tried to force them to a secluded area and demanded money, according to police spokesman Sgt. Andrew Di Elmo.
At least three women have been accosted in the same part of East Orange, in the areas of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to William Street and North Munn Avenue to Prospect Street, police say.
There have been three incidents since last month, but no additional incidents reported since Robinson held the news conference asking for the public's help, Di Elmo said today.
Anyone with information should contact the Anonymous Crime Tips Hotline at (973) 266-5041 or the Violent Crimes Task Force at (973) 266-5060.


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Poor ol' Joe Biden means well, but he just can't help himself. His foot must taste pretty good.
Biden was speaking at a Seattle fundraiser, touting Obama's impressive leadership style when he went into this historical reference about the challenges new presidents often face soon after taking office. He was basically calling on supporters to stick with the new team, if they win, through thick and thin. Not necessarily controversial territory here, but you know what happens when the excerpts hit the fan.
Why do these guys keep forgetting there's press coverage in Washington state?
Here's a transcript of the latest gaffe....


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A number of Ligue 1 managers have received praise in recent years for achieving success with limited budgets; however, one top-flight boss his slipped under the radar despite establishing one of France's smaller teams as one of the better footballing sides in the league.
Indeed, Rudi Garcia and Claude Puel have been the subject of much acclaim for turning Lille and Nice into exciting and vibrant attacking sides with youth at their core, but one manager who continues to go unrecognized is Lorient's Christian Gourcuff.
Fifty-seven-year-old Gourcuff re-joined the Brittany club for his third spell as boss in 2003. At the time, Les Merlus were struggling to achieve promotion from Ligue 2 just a year after securing the greatest triumph in their history, a 1-0 win over Bastia in the 2002 Coupe De France Final.
It took Lorient just three more years to engineer a return to Ligue 1, and the shrewd and intelligent Gourcuff has since set about working his magic in guiding Lorient to a string of excellent league finishes.
The Bretons were impressive in their first season back in the top division, as then-young guns Jeremy Morel, Christophe Jallet, Mickael Ciani and 21-year-old Andre-Pierre Gignac helped them to secure a mid-table place.
Gourcuff's youth-driven coaching philosophy continued to bear fruit, with the likes of Laurent Koscielny, Morgan Amalfitano and Kevin Gameiro inspiring Lorient to a seventh-place finish in the 2009/10 season, a campaign that is undoubtedly the highlight of his time in charge.
Gameiro can be perhaps considered Gourcuff's star pupil. The striker netted a stunning 43 goals in two seasons for the club, but financial constraints forced him and Amalfitano to follow Koscielny—the defender who moved to Arsenal in 2010—through the exit door before the start of last season.
The loss of such considerable talents was a devastating blow to Gourcuff's squad, and they narrowly avoided relegation by just one point on the final day of the 2011/12 campaign. Still, it is Gourcuff's reaction to that near-miss that underlines just why he is the most underrated manager in Ligue 1.
Lorient's hierarchy was not panicked by the poor performance of last term and chose to back the manager, who in turn used the increased funds to bring Alain Traore and Benjamin Corgnet to the Stade du Moustoir.
The more expensive arrivals have made a difference, but Gourcuff has remained faithful to his young players. Midfielders Enzo Reale, Mathias Autret and Maxime Barthelme have all made multiple appearances this season, and 24-year-old Gabonese defender Bruno Ecuele Manga is in his third season as captain.
Gourcuff has again been vindicated by his decision to stick with his tested formula of building a side around a group of inexperienced yet talented individuals. Les Merlus are once more embedded within the top half of Ligue 1 and are seven points off a potential European berth.
All this has been achieved despite a nightmarish season on the injury front. Ecuele Manga, Traore and Corgnet have all spent lengthy periods in the treatment room, and the lack of reinforcements has challenged Gourcuff to extract the best from some of the lesser lights on the squad.
It is a task that he has proved more than worthy of meeting, and testament to that is the form of Jeremie Aliadiere, the former Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Celtic forward, who has scored 13 goals and 10 assists in all competitions so far.
Now in his 10th year in the hot seat with his local club, Gourcuff can look back on a period of relative success, in which he has helped Lorient take the next step following their most famous triumph. He has built a side capable of playing attractive, free-scoring football and maximized the potential of a host of promising talents.
He remains a somewhat under-appreciated coach in the eyes of many observers, but 11 years after winning the only major honor in their history, Lorient are just two steps away from another Coupe De France Final.
How fitting it would be if Gourcuff could emerge from the shadows and cement his place among the French managerial elite by securing glory at the Stade de France in the competition that started Les Merlus' upward spiral.


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HAMMOND - Southeastern Louisiana University Director of Athletics Dr. Joel Erdmann announced Tuesday the addition of two senior staff members, each with ties to the state.
Joining the Athletic Department is Baton Rouge native David Lichtenstein, who will serve as Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs, and Hope Williams, who worked at UNO and will serve as Assistant Athletic Director for Academic Success.
The hiring of Lichtenstein and Williams are both subject to approval from the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors.
Lichtenstein, a Baton Rouge High graduate, will oversee all aspects of the athletic department's external relations, including tickets, fundraising, marketing and promotions.
"David has a progressive record of professional advancement in collegiate athletic marketing," Erdmann said. "He is a Louisiana native who has gained valuable experience at strong athletic departments in various parts of the nation. He returns to a state that he loves and is excited to help us continue to build support for a tremendous university and athletic program."
Lichtenstein, a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA), spent the previous four years as Assistant Director of Athletics at Morehead State. Lichtenstein joined the MSU staff after serving as Director of Marketing and Promotions for the athletic department at Northern Illinois.
He also has served as assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions at UTEP, marketing and promotions manager for athletics at South Dakota State, as a marketing coordinator for athletics at New Mexico State, and in the athletic marketing and promotions departments at Oregon and at LSU.
Lichtenstein assisted in all phases of the MSU athletic program, especially in the areas of marketing, promotions, corporate sponsorships and event management. He was instrumental in fundraising campaigns for MSU athletics, including the development of the annual Eagle Excellence Auction and Golf Tournament.
Lichtenstein holds a bachelor's degree from Arkansas and a master's degree from Ohio State. He was a letterwinner in swimming, beginning at Tulane before finishing at Arkansas.
Williams, a Chicago native, spent the past two years at Colorado before returning to the state of Louisiana.
"We are very excited to have a person of Hope's professional experience in the area of Student-Athlete Academic Support and Success," Erdmann said. "She has a proven record of success at prominent Division I institutions. Her professional abilities are complimentary by her personal characteristics and interpersonal skills."
Williams, who worked at UNO in 2005, worked as an Associate Director of Academic Services at CU where her responsibilities included serving as Lead Academic Coordinator for football as well as Academic Coordinator for Women's Basketball and Volleyball. She also coordinated the Mentor/Tutor Program in the Herbst Academic Center.
Prior to her arrival at CU, Williams was Director of Student Athlete Support Services at UNO. While on the Lakefront, Williams served on the Chancellors Diversity Cabinet and directed the academic unit for athletics before and after Hurricane Katrina, guiding the Privateer men's basketball team to its highest semester cumulative GPA in recent history.
In the 2007-08, Williams was selected to participate at the NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females. The yearlong institute was held at the NCAA National Headquarters in Indianapolis and included four sessions throughout 2007-08, and a weeklong session in July 2008.
From 2001-05, Williams was on the athletics student services staff at Iowa where she served as Assistant Director and Lead Academic Coordinator for Hawkeye football and women's basketball. She also assisted with coordinating the Student-Athlete Minority Focus Group.
In addition to her athletics responsibilities, Williams served as Treasurer of the African American Staff Council at Iowa.
Her work prior to Iowa includes more than 16 years in college and university student development and athletics academic support. During that time Williams worked at Northern Illinois as Academic Coordinator for Student-Athletes, Augustana College as Assistant Dean of Students, and Marycrest College as Director of Academic Advising. She also served as an intern for the Chicago Bears during the 1998 football season.
A 1985 graduate of St. Ambrose University, Williams played on that school's first women's basketball team. In 1995, she participated in the inaugural NACWAA/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement. She also holds a Certificate in Community Development Finance from Harvard.


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To begin, I am grateful for my children—but not only in the ways that you might imagine (of course I am thankful for their health and happiness). Every single day, my children challenge me to be a better person—to be more patient, to listen more attentively, to be empathic about their challenges, however small they may seem relative to my adult challenges.
My son teaches me that you can play hard, fight hard, and then simply move on, holding no grudges. My older daughter is a reminder not to pre-judge: Even though your bedroom perpetually looks like it was hit by a hurricane, you can somehow still walk out of it looking ultra-fashionable. And, my younger daughter offers the important lesson that no matter how hard you work (and she does work hard), getting enough sleep is just as important…even if your sleep begins at 1am and ends at 1pm. How have your children made you a better person?
Of course, I am not just a mother. I am a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, an aunt, a psychologist, a writer…and a chocoholic. Each of these roles in my life challenges me to consider the parts of myself with which I am satisfied, and to work on changing those that do not reflect my best self. Every one of the central roles in my life also reminds me about the importance of the hard work that is necessary in order for me to become better at each of these important relationships (except for my relationship with chocolate—it seems to require little work other than restraint!).
I want to be the best wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, and aunt that I can possibly be. I want to be sure that I am truly helping the kids and adults who entrust me with their life struggles, and I want to touch the lives of those who read my books and articles.
I do not always find it easy to do all of this, and I'm sure that you, too, don't find it simple to reach the relationship goals that you set for yourself—whether they are as a mom or a wife, or whether they are with chocolate or a messy room. But our aim is to do the best that we can, and to keep trying to do better. In the process of recognizing that we are not perfect, we must forgive those in our lives for their imperfections so that we can all move forward together harmoniously.
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BEACHWOOD -- It does happen occasionally that a person pursued by police is totally innocent of wrongdoing, but it's still imperative to follow police instructions.
Once police were able to sort things out it was discovered that a criminal gave police a phony Social Security number, that turned out to belong to the car owner. The same criminal was later evading an arrest warrant and that was why police stopped the car.


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The former Alabama player and coach will be one of the color analysts on the basketball version of the SEC Network, a collection of local over-the-air affiliates, and on ESPNU.
That's good news for SEC fans who worried that, with the conference's new TV deal with ESPN, unfamiliar voices would be enlisted to comment on the action without having experienced it themselves in the past.
More good news: Joe Dean Jr. is back. The Birmingham-Southern AD, who played at Mississippi State and coached at Kentucky, will continue to sing his version of ``string music.'' He'll be a game analyst for the SEC Network, as will former Vanderbilt player Barry Booker and former coach Bob Wenzel.
The familiar team of Brad Nessler and Jimmy Dykes will work the main SEC games on Super Tuesdays and Saturdays on ESPN and ESPN2, the network said.
ESPN got it right in so many ways with these assignments. Dean's as good as it gets in that chair, and Gottfried has a chance to get to that level.
The more television Gottfried does, the more tempting he may find it not to return to the sideline, much like his friend and fellow former UCLA assistant Steve Lavin. Gottfried's always been glib, and he knows the league.
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Recently, I became aware that our Saranac Lake village mayor represents our community as a member of an organization that is misleadingly named: Mayors Against Illegal Guns. This blatantly anti-Second Amendment group is an organization fronted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Rabideau's membership cannot be compared to joining the Elks Club, Rotary Club or some other organization where he would be privately representing himself. As a member of this mayors' group, he is representing our community and furthering the political goals of that organization.
I sent a personal and private email to Mayor Rabideau, shared some data about MAIG and respectfully asked him to resign from the group. I told him I would be happy to discuss it further with him if he would like. His response was to take exception to my request, informing me that he supports MAIG and also supports the Second Amendment "100 percent."
My request of Mr. Rabideau was, "As the mayor of the 'Capital of the Adirondacks,' where legal gun ownership is a proud aspect of our traditions and recreation, I ask that you resign from Mayors Against Illegal Guns and reassure the many legal gun owners of our community that you support their Constitutional rights and traditions." Since our mayor claimed to support the Second Amendment "100 percent," I also asked if he belonged to any organizations (like local fish and game clubs, shooting organizations or the NRA) that defend our right to firearms under the Second Amendment. He responded to my question simply: "U.S. Army veteran."
MAIG continues to claim that they are only concerned with "illegal" guns. However, their work to impose new gun restrictions on legal gun owners is quite clear:
-Opposition to concealed carry reciprocity between states: This applies only to legally permitted gun owners and only if all local laws are followed. These are law-abiding gun owners. MAIG opposes the right to self-defense for traveling legal gun owners.
-Legal transport of firearms: If a legal gun owner wishes to carry his firearm on a commercial airline as checked baggage (in a locked case and unloaded), it is permitted. A regulation requiring Amtrak to accept firearms under these same conditions was sponsored by Sen. Wicker, R-Miss. Even the Brady Campaign announced it would not oppose the legislation; MAIG opposed the bill which would support the legal gun owner.
-Mandated microstamping of expended ammunition rounds: A demonstrable failure by any objective measure, this will cost taxpayers large sums of money to implement and brings with it many legal concerns regarding investigative and admissible trial evidence. MAIG continues to support microstamping. The technology is based upon the laser-engraved firing pin of a gun striking the ammunition and marking it before the expended shell is ejected from the firearm. The hope was that police could then pick up the ejected shells on a crime scene and trace the weapon to the criminal. Here are the problems: Firing pins can be removed and modified with a simple file in less than 10 minutes. Expended ammunition of the same caliber from any public shooting range could be picked up and scattered at a crime scene to confuse police and falsely implicate legal gun owners. The stamping is unreliable, subject to variations in ammunition, and the unique microstamp is frequently indecipherable. Both the Association of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners and the University of California-Davis have provided studies concluding that the technology does not work. Thus many police organizations nationwide do not support legislative enactments of microstamping, while, of course, some do. I would suggest that readers explore the political connections between individual police departments and MAIG mayors.
-Repealing the Tiahrt Amendment: The Tiahrt Amendment prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) from releasing gun-tracing data to the public. Rather, such data is shared only with law-enforcement agencies or prosecutors in connection with a specific criminal investigation. Counter to MAIG's effort to repeal, the ATF and the nation's largest law-enforcement organization, the Fraternal Order of Police, support the amendment. Both organizations claim that repealing the amendment would jeopardize ongoing investigations and threaten the lives of undercover law enforcement.
-New restrictions on all private sales of legal firearms at gun shows. MAIG is lobbying for regulations which would impact 2 percent of all guns sold in America, requiring that private individuals now perform background checks on all buyers before selling a firearm. Note that we are not talking about pistols; these are private sellers of long guns. These regulations will drive gun shows, like the one sponsored by our Saranac Lake Fish and Game Club, out of existence.
-Recommends a ban on the importation of all "non-sporting" firearms and ammunition: Who decides what a "non-sporting" firearm is? Is any handgun a "sporting" gun? This is simply another version of the now-expired Brady Bill.
Over the last four years, the United States Supreme Court has made landmark decisions supporting Second Amendment rights (DC v. Heller [2008] and McDonald v. Chicago [2010]). Gun ownership has been on the rise, especially among women. FBI statistics estimate that violent crimes decreased nearly 6 percent between 2009 and 2010, including a 5 percent decrease in the number of murders. This is a 37-year low. New York City's murder rate rose 15 percent even as it boasts some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
Mayor Rabideau will most likely defend MAIG by parroting MAIG's untruthful claims that their work is broadly supported by law enforcement and has minimal costs associated with the regulations. He also may praise a few "common sense" regulations like the reporting of lost or stolen firearms. Everyone supports the reporting of lost or stolen firearms. However, these types of legislation need to be structured so that the reporting requirements are reasonable and prudent. Otherwise, legal gun owners may suddenly find themselves labeled criminals. "Reasonable" and "prudent" are not terms that I would associate with MAIG. Again, all these lobbying efforts focus on legal gun owners and have nothing to do with "illegal guns."
Saranac Lake has a long and proud history of hunting and recreational shooting. It is part of our heritage and our economy. More than just a tradition, it is a Constitutional right. Get involved. Publicly and privately ask our mayor to resign from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's MAIG immediately.
Raymond A. Scollin lives in Saranac Lake and is chairman of the village's Republican committee.


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There was some good news and bad news Tuesday night regarding NBC's reality TV smash "America's Got Talent."
The bad news: The show got off to a rocky start as 10 of the Top 40 acts who competed in Los Angeles really proved the talent level this season is pretty thin.
The good news: Local singer Jessica Price, of Freeport, stood head-and-shoulders above most acts, distinguishing herself as an early favorite.
That means Price - who sang a slowed-down version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" -- will likely survive the first cut.
• Review Gonzo's live blog, with minute-by-minute discussion of Tuesday's "America's Got Talent"
Judges Sharon Osbourne, David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan all were impressed with her performance.
"Jessica, how you feeling," British judge Morgan said.
"Good," Price said nervously.
"You should feel good, that was fantastic," he added. "The only criticism I want to make is you just don't smile enough. You're not confident enough. You have all the ingredients a star needs."
"You took the stage, and you know what, I think you have a chance of winning this competition," Hasselhoff said.
Even host Jerry Springer has become a big fan: "There is never, ever a reason for you not to have confidence any more, you were phenomenal."
Viewers of the top-rated TV show voted Tuesday night by calling a toll-free phone number and on logging on to NBC.com to determine the top 5 acts from the first night. Ten more acts compete at 8 p.m. Wednesday on NBC, followed by two more nights of performances next week.
Producers are whittling down the show to a Top 20. That means five acts from each night will move on.
The other favorites from Tuesday night's show: Aspiring opera singer Neal E. Boyd from Missouri and dance team Extreme Dance FX from California.
Other performers included: Dance group The James Gang, Britney Spears impersonator Derrick Barry, martial arts kid Alex "Elite" Pyles, dancer/singer Ronny B, drum/percussion act The Cadence, magician Shimshi and male dance act the D.C. Cowboys Dance Company.
It was also a not-so-good night for Cassie "Miss PussyKatt" Truskowski of Grand Rapids, who is a burlesque and circus performer. She was one of eight acts vying for a wild card spot in the Top 40. At the end of the show, while all wild card acts stood on stage, it was announced by host Jerry Springer that singer Donald Braswell II of Texas would take that spot.
Tonight, 10 more acts perform live at 8 p.m. on NBC. They include popular acts such as 4-year-old cutie pie/singer Kaitlyn Maher, violin act Nothin' But Stringz, soul/R&B singer Queen Emily and singer Eli Mattson. The others: Elvis impersonator Joseph Hall, drag queen Shequida, burlesque dance act Slippery Kittens, costumed characters the Zooperstars, singer Daniel Jens and dancing musician Jonathan Arons.
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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Tuscaloosa County Park & Recreation Authority will present the 38th annual West Alabama Christmas Parade and Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony this evening downtown Tuscaloosa.
The events are at 6:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m., respectively, and both are free and open to the pubic.
An online Facebook competition and PARA staff members selected the theme of the annual parade, "Candy Canes and Christmas Carols." A committee of representatives in the community selected the Grand Marshals from nominations received.
The tree lighting ceremony will take place on the steps of the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse. This year's tree is a 60-foot Leland Cypress donated by Paul Snyder and family from the Flatwoods community in Northport. This marks the third tree donation by the Snyder family for the event. It was installed on the Courthouse lawn with a 25-ton crane and features 680 lights, 500 ornaments, red bows and candy canes.
Retired Tuscaloosa County public defender Bobby Wooldridge will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the tree lighting event. The schedule of entertainment with choral music is as follows:
- Tuscaloosa City Schools with Director Jeff Schultz
- Grand Marshals "flip the switch" to light the tree
- Holy Spirit Elementary School Choir with Director Annie McClendon
- Westwood Elementary Chorus with Director Merry Livingston
The parade, recognized as West Alabama's largest, will include 126 floats, decorated vehicles, nine bands, marching groups along with costumed characters and horse groups. The parade route begins on Greensboro Avenue at 11th Street, travels east to University Boulevard, turns north and ends at the corner of University Boulevard and 19th Avenue.
For the second year in a row, WVUA-TV will air the parade in its entirety. The live broadcast will begin at 6:30 p.m. as the parade begins.
The parade will be replay on WVUA-TV on Dec. 14 at 5 p.m. according to WVUA-TV officials.
The Downtown T-Town window decoration contest will be judged today beginning at 1 p.m.
Parade and Window Contest Winners will be announced on WVUA-TV on tonight at 10 p.m. Parade trophies may be picked up at the PARA Building after Dec. 10.
Parking is available in the city's Intermodal Facility/Parking Deck located at the corner of 7th Street and 22nd Avenue, and in the parking lot on the corner of Greensboro Avenue and University Boulevard. Additional parking is available along the parade route.
Portable toilets will be located in two points along the parade route. The first location is in the Jemison House parking lot on Greensboro Avenue. The second location is in the city parking lot at the corner of Greensboro Avenue and University Blvd., which will also feature a handicapped accessible toilet. Both are open to the public.
A "Lost and Found" station for children and other items is located in the PARA Building close to the corner of Greensboro Avenue and 6th Street.
For safety issues it is requested that downtown traffic slow speed and re-route on Greensboro Avenue between 15th Street and University Boulevard beginning at 5 p.m. as pedestrians and traffic will be lining up for the parade and the best viewing opportunities.
Grand Marshals for tonight's parade are Davis "Buddy" Burton and Fitzgerald Washington.
Burton is a graduate of the University of Alabama and is retired from 45 years at JMF where he served as accountant, shareholder and managing shareholder. He is a founding member of the Community Foundation of West Alabama. Leadership positions shared with civic and charitable organizations include the Tuscaloosa Tennis Association, West Alabama Softball Hall of Fame, Salvation Army, United Way of West Alabama, Tuscaloosa Industrial Development Authority and Tuscaloosa Civitan Club.
Washington is a graduate of Shelton State Community College. He is employed as general sales manager with Buffalo Rock Pepsi. His current civic leadership includes Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama, where he is 2013 Chairman and was instrumental in launching the Minority Business Council, Alabama Beverage Association, Black Warrior Council of the Boy Scouts, BB&T Bank Advisory Board, University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies-Board of Visitors, DCH Health Systems Foundation board of directors, Stillman College UNCF Chairman and Shelton State Community College Board of Directors.


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Trying to fix my travel schedules for the rest of the year I was leisurely surfing around airline websites and came upon another RyanAir offer, this time they were promoting their new Online Checkin policy with some sale fares that were very cheap AND included all the taxes, fees and surcharges. The FR offering from Finland is not very good with only a handful of routes, bad schedules and often not that cheap fares. And getting to Tampere is another major hassle for somebody like me who is living in the Capital Region of Finland. Oh well, of course there are alternatives, and my beloved Riga airport suited just fine. There were a number of good fares with FR available, so I booked a few for the autumn. The first of these was RIX-CRL, which cost the princely sum of 13 EUR including priority boarding and credit card fees (and it also finally prompted me to get a Visa Electron card to cut down on these fees). My first idea was to spend a few hours in Charleroi (having been to Brussels many many times before) and then taking the train up to BRU and catching a flight home from there.
However I couldn't resist checking additional FR flights ex-CRL, and I found myself booking CRL-MAN for the same price of 13 EUR with a schedule that fit quite nicely with the RIX-CRL flight. To get me to RIX I booked a 40 EUR el cheapo ticket on BT - they are getting more desperate for cash and the 40 EUR fares seem to have become much more common than before when the standard low fare for HEL-RIX was around 60-70 EUR. Well I'm not complaining. Getting home from Manchester proved to be a much more challenging as AY wanted ridiculous amounts of money for the direct MAN-HEL flight that I'd preferred and no LCCs really fit my plans either. Finally I settled for SK via CPH for around 160 EUR which wasn't cheap at all. Via ARN would've been a few Euros cheaper (the airport fees for ARN are a bit less than at CPH) but I preferred to fly on another MD-80 series and besides I've already flown MAN-ARN before so another route was preferred.
A few weeks later FR announced that all the MAN routes apart from DUB would be dropped, luckily this would be from the beginning of October onward so it didn't affect me.
With a departure time of 8.45 waking up wasn't too hard - unlike the 5.25 BT departure I've taken a few times which is just brutal. Normal morning rituals and at 7.30 I hop on to the bus, reaching the airport 15 minutes later. This is the first time I'm flying out of HEL since the terminals were reorganized in the beginning of August - the domestic terminal is now called T1 and houses mainly Star Alliance carriers and some other foreign ones, and the old international terminal is T2 with AY and other Oneworld airlines plus assorted charter carriers etc. Air Baltic is handled by SAS Ground Services in HEL, so it is T1 for me. My first impression is that things are not quite finished yet, despite the split happening already a month ago. There are pieces of scaffolding around and the whole place just has a very unfinished feel to it.
Just for the heck of it I try the self-service machine, which never works with the el cheapo BT bookings - the official reason is that they put a note to the PNR for the check-in agent to charge for any hold baggage if you don't pay for it online and this note messes up the machine. Today is no different, so I have to join the queue which doesn't look too long but in the end turns out to be dog slow. There aren't too many agents on duty and in a brilliant display of situation management there are two separate desks for baggage drop even though these aren't busy at all and the agents are just sitting still for most of the time. There are three desks open for regular economy, but one of them is clogged by a hockey team flying to Ottawa checking in massive bags of hockey equipment - I think there are around 20 huge bags each of which needs a separate overweight tag etc. There seem to be a number of people with perverse ticketing problems requiring phone calls, consultations with a supervisor - the works. There's also a lady trying to travel on an expired passport and this results in a long argument with the agent should she be allowed to travel or not. In the end she is given her boarding pass and her luggage accepted, but the whole thing just takes up a lot of time.
After half an hour in the queue, with half an hour to go until the scheduled departure time I start getting nervous. I'm still three people away from the end of the queue, but luckily some other people are going to Riga as well and ask an agent about it. The answer is a bit worrying, as she says "I think the flight is already closed, I need to make a call to see if they accept you.". Apparently they do, so we get to skip the rest of the line, get quickly checked in (I complain again about the self-service issue as I have done many times before) and run quickly upstairs to the security check. The whole security area seems to have been rebuilt as there are now far more lanes than previously. There are no lines, so it's a quick affair and then straight to gate 13 and to the waiting bus downstairs. The little I see about the "new" T1 airside is not very pretty - more scaffolding, temporary plywood walls and almost a complete lack of any shops or restaurants. Oh well, maybe they'll get it finished by the end of the year.
I'm not even the last to board the bus as a few more people come after me. There are less than 25 people in the bus including a deadheading BT steward in full duty uniform - looks like another flight loosing money for BT. We drive through the depressing early autumn drizzle to the apron on the south side of the terminal. This flight was supposed to be on a 737, but I see none around. I'm very delighted to see that we actually pull in front of TF-JMN, the Air Iceland Fokker 50 leased to BT since this May. I've seen this beauty - she is in full Flugfelag Islands or Air Iceland livery - in RIX a few times and now I'm about to board her!
Seat 7A
8.39 - 9.43
Once again I'm the first to board the plane (I tend to do this a lot) and greet the smiling steward with "I'm very happy to fly on this plane!" which nets me a confused expression as he probably doesn't share my enthusiasm. There's a second female FA standing at the back galley as well. With the low load boarding is a quick affair, even though there are some weird seat assignments - some people actually have seats for row 19, which of course does not exist on the Fokkers. Looks like they got checked in when the flight was still loaded to the system as a 737.
The plane features old style thick blue cloth seats, the shade of the blue is somewhat lighter than the dark blue on the BT Fokkers.
We depart a good 6 minutes before schedule, pushing back on our own engine power. Taxi to runway 04R eats up that advantage, so we start our take off roll exactly on the scheduled departure time. The weather being horrible we disappear into the murk in no time:
The skies remain overcast for the whole flight, only over the Gulf of Riga there are a few openings but views are limited to water (and some mighty waves), so no photos this time. Here's a cabin shot inflight:
As I had no time to grab any coffee or water from the airport I buy both from the BOB cart. The coffee is actually rather nice and water is ... well, water.
Half an hour into the flight our Estonian captain comes on, announcing (in English and Russian) some weather information in RIX - basically the same crap weather as in HEL with 14 degrees, 3 kilometers visibility and winds from the south which means we should be landing on runway 18. Remaining flight time is another half an hour.
This proves to be correct, almost exactly 30 minutes after the announcement we gently touch town on a wet runway 18 and taxi to the southern apron, where an ancient rattling bus takes us to arrivals.
Riga airport
I make a beeline to the transfer stairs that take you to the main level. Once again the airport seems quite busy, although it is not as packed as during the peak June and July holiday season. With a little over an hour to go I do some shopping (more cigs for the mother in law actually) and have a quick snack at the coffee shop, taking a few pictures of this beauty:
The CRL flight is departing from the bus gates below the B pier where I make my way around 40 minutes before departure. The place is packed as there is a full BT flight to FCO boarding at the next gate and people are already queuing for boarding our flight. And this is just the bus, not the plane for crying out loud! I'm happy about my decision not to fly FR anymore unless I have priority boarding. Very soon they announce priority boarding, so I make my way to the correct queue where there are around 10 people. We board the thankfully more modern bus and soon it becomes apparent that they are actually providing a dedicated bus for priority boarders which is nice (WizzAir, you should learn!). What is not nice that we end up waiting for over 30 minutes in the bus with no explanation given. At least the driver turns off the engine after some people complain about the diesel fumes in the back. Finally at the scheduled departure time of 11.05 the bus starts and drives us the few hundred meters around the building to the waiting 737-800.
Lots of green tails parked on the south apron:
Seat 31A
11.38 - 12.43
Everybody on the bus rushes to the front stairs so I do what I always do and board using the back stairs. On board the FA is having trouble finding a working pen to tick off my boarding pass (so low-cost, so ryanairesque!), so she just tears the paper a bit. I sit on one of the last rows wondering about why all the other people are crowding and queuing in front of the plane. Human nature, what a fascinating subject.
The ugly cabin:
The rest of the passengers soon follow on another bus of the non-priority kind:
They settle down surprisingly fast, and I find myself surrounded with a noisy bunch of Belgian teenagers who are yelling obscenities at each other (well, for all I know they could be citing Bible verses as my French doesn't really get past the "merci beaucoup" level). The load factor looks surprisingly low for FR and for a while I'm actually hoping that the two seats next to me will remain empty. Those dreams are shattered by the arrival of a second bus which makes the plane nearly full. I get a pair of old Latvian men sitting next to me, which wouldn't so bad if the one next to me didn't reek of fresh mushrooms. He clearly ate quite a bunch of those for his breakfast, and didn't bother to brush his teeth (if he has any). I don't like mushrooms, not the taste and definitely not the smell. I resort to turning all the air vents on top of us to full blast which actually works and makes the smell go away. Inflight entertainment for these guys consists of the menu card which they go through in great detail many times during the flight, with the other one apparently translating things into Latvian for the other one. Not that they buy anything from the menu... Oh well, whatever tickles your fancy.
A mysterious third bus appears with a handful of late pax who have some trouble finding seats. In the end all the seats seem to be occupied - I'm puzzled by how FR always manages to do that. Most of the flights on FR that I've been on have been full or very near capacity at least.
We finally start moving 33 minutes late, with no explanation given about the delay at all, let alone an apology. Quick taxi to the threshold for runway 18 and off we go.
Even though it has stopped raining the weather is still very depressing and in no time at all we disappear into the clouds.
The cloudy skies remain for the whole flight, only a few openings here and there showing the Baltic Sea north of Germany and some random German country side.
I spend the whole flight watching a movie on my IPod Touch which causes some curiosity in my seatmate (even as much as to get him to look away from the wonders of the menu card). It's a standard FR flight, they try to sell many things to you at inflated prices, make multiple announcements about these and offer special deals. I'm not interested at all this time, just being satisfied with my bottle of water. Luckily the headphones block much of the announcements.
Time flies when you're flying (errr...) and soon I feel the engines easing and descent starting, around 1h30mins into the flight. We descent very gently, and 15 minutes later the seat belt sign is switched on and landing in 15 minutes announced. Too bad I didn't get to finish my movie, bummer. The cloud base is low here as well, so it's only during finals that I'm able to see the ground and snap some photos. The guys next to me decide to turn on their mobiles during final approach and apparently a number of other people do as well as the cabin fills with a cacophony of beeps, no doubt welcoming their owners to roaming in Belgium. The cabin crew couldn't care less, even though they must hear the beeps.
We touch down rather hard on runway 25, followed by heavy breaking and exiting the runway on the far end. No "On time arrival" fanfare this time but thanks to generous padding in the schedules we are only a few minutes late. A WizzAir A320 from BBU lands after us and follows us to the terminal:
The taxiway setup is interesting as the new terminal building has been built on the other side of the runway from the old, tiny one but the new taxiways are not yet ready. So we taxi on the wrong side of the runway almost the full length before crossing back to the apron side:
...and parking in front of the jetwayless terminal:
Charleroi Airport
No bus this time, just walking across the apron.
EI-DWA at CRL:
When exiting the baggage claim the customs officers actually require everybody to open their bags and let them peek inside. The aviation magazines, books, water bottle, kilo of amphetamine and the carton of cigs in my bag is apparently no cause for concern so I'm just waved away.
Having around 2 hours to spare I first take a quick walk around to get a feel of the airport. This terminal was opened in January 2008 and still feels new. It does feel cheap as well, as not all the details are very finished and you see raw concrete etc. one some places. Still a decent low cost airport and far nicer than some of FR's el cheapo destinations:
I grab a sandwich for lunch, and since I'm in Belgium I can't really leave without sampling some of the local fine brews, can I? The prices in the weirdly named cafeteria "Paul" are very much inflated, but luckily the Irish pub doesn't charge a premium for beer.
An hour before departure I decide to go airside. Security is quite tight, despite getting rid of everything metallic apart from the zip of my jeans I still beep and the guy (too bad it wasn't a gal!) pats and wands me quite thoroughly. They even have the mystic shoe detector machine that almost chokes on my smelly feet but in the end gives me the green light. Come to think of it they have the same machines at BRU airport as well so maybe it is a Belgian thing.
Airside there is a large store selling everything from duty free to magazines, toys and souvenirs and an equally large cafeteria, some gates and not much else. I grab some chocolate from the store as you can't really pass Belgium without doing that - those chocolates are world class and proceed to the non-Schengen side. At the queue to the passport control there are a number of familiar faces from the RIX flight, so I'm not the only one doing this connection today. The non-Schengen side is even tinier with three gates and a basic snack bar. A large bunch of very hangovery-looking middle aged British guys are downing beer with both hands, tell-tale signs of a bachelor party or "boys weekend out" if you ask me. Oh well, I decide to have one beer for me as well. I barely have time to drink half of it when the agents appear to our gate and a very orderly queue immediately forms in front of it - ahh, the quintessence of British living: queuing in an orderly fashion.
While waiting, a JetairFly B737-800 arrives, later departing for Nador in Morocco:
There's a separate priority lane of course, so I make my way there together with a handful of others and am invited to board right away.
Seat 31F
15.01 - 15.10
Well, not exactly board as we are lead down two flights of stairs into a bare concrete corridor that has the same musky smell as my late grandmother's basement where she used to store potatoes for the winter. The last flight of stairs is cordoned off, so we are blocked into this corridor with more and more people pushing down. At least the door to the apron is wide open so the smell isn't overwhelming. Another 15-20 minutes passes here, until a ramp agent comes and lets us proceed to the apron. Once again I board from the rear stairs - the back galley FA actually has a working pen this time. I settle for the right hand side this time.
A few FR planes have arrived in the mean time:
Gradually the plane fills, and it looks like MOL did it again - all the seats are taken. The bachelor party folks spread around me, with the one next to me asking if I'm a nervous flyer. I answer "Nope, I fly far too much to be one". He says that he is, and he turns out to be a nice guy and we have some chit chat about various things. After telling him that I'm on the track to logging around 125 flights this year he asks "Yes, you definitely fly much - are you a pilot?" I answer that I couldn't - they wouldn't let me drink beer while on board if I was... He's also quite puzzled about the fact that I'm flying to MAN just to catch another two planes home to HEL - I don't have the heart to tell him that I actually departed from there the very same morning and took another two flights just to get on this one .
We depart one minute after the scheduled time, taxiing to runway 25 doesn't take much time and shoot to the overcast sky. The nervous guy looks very nervous indeed, with eyes tightly closed and sweating palms. After we level out he says that the take offs are the worst, the level flight and landings when there are no bumps are okay for him.
The skies have cleared a bit so there are sights from the ground to be seen. Soon after take off we fly past Ghent:
and reach the North Sea coast over Knokke, with the river Scheldt estuary clearly visible:
Crossing the short sea stretch doesn't take much time and soon we make landfall just north of the Thames Estuary.
We continue onwards towards Leicester and start descending directly over EMA airport. It looks like the northbound lanes on the M1 motorway are blocked by a huge traffic jam around the airport. Bad shot of Leicester city:
I have just enough time to finish off my movie and listen to a few tunes after the seat belt sign comes on 50 minutes into the flight. The crew doesn't have time to finish the BOB service, so the few last rows including mine are skipped, which is fine by me anyway. We descent over the southern part of the Pennines, which affords some nice views:
A left turn follows, pointing us towards the southwest and of course runway 23R of MAN. The right hand side where I'm sitting gets some nice views of the Manchester-Salford metro area:
At 15.10 we touch down on 23R, use up the whole runway for slowing down before taxiing past the Avro RJ-X display to our stand in front of T1 next to a couple of EI A320s going to ORK and DUB.
Oh yeah, this time the "Another early RyanAir arrival" fanfare is played in full blast which is followed by loud hand clapping and cheering from some of the Brits around me.
Eurowings CRJ-200 to DUS:
Manchester Airport
Entering the terminal there is a long corridor to take us to immigration and what a sight that is. The immigration queue stretches for over a hundred meters along the other pier of T1:
I don't really believe my eyes at first. I could use the transfer lane to get directly back to airside and bypass this madness as I'm connecting, but I really want to get some fresh air outside so I decide to try my luck and join the queue. Surprisingly things are moving fast, but since there are hundreds of people here it still takes time. After ten minutes I'm in the actual immigration hall:
...and another ten minutes takes me to an unsmiling officer who couldn't really care less about my ID. What an anticlimax.
Then it's off to find a decent, non-fast food place to eat a proper meal. The T1 arrivals offerings look a little poor, so I decide to walk over to T3 - I remember there being a decent-sized food court on the second floor. Unfortunately it is gone now, or at least moved to airside as there is a new security check point in its place. Landside T3 doesn't seem to offer much of anything so I backtrack to T1.
Is it just me or are most British airports confusing as hell and not very passenger friendly? T1 seems to lack any escalators or stairs, so to get to the departure level one has to use the same elevators as for the car parks, which are very slow and packed with people. Oh well, the departure level doesn't have a single restaurant so it is back to the arrivals area, where grudgingly I settle for Joe's Kitchen and Coffee House which turns out to be a quite decent restaurant and the Chili Con Carne surprisingly tasty.
With two hours to go until my next flight I once again fight the elevator scrum and reach the departures floor in one piece. The whole security point has been rebuilt from my last time here in 2006. There are automated barriers where you scan the bar code on your boarding pass to open the doors - fortunately my self-printed web check-in one works just fine. There are tons of security lanes, but only a handful are open, but since there aren't too many people I'm through in no time at all.
Looks like the BAA-influenced trend of turning airports into shopping malls has made it into Manchester T1 as well. After security you are dumped into a shopping atrium, and the only way to reach the gates, restaurants and other amenities is through the giant duty free store. Well, their strategy seems to work since I can't resist a good deal for some champagne, coupled with the favorable (to us Eurofolks) EUR-Sterling exchange rate which makes it downright cheap.
The bar upstairs offers some apron views so I park myself there, nursing a few pints in the progress. Too bad there's not much to see, action here is quite slow and it has started to rain again (what a surprise!). The evening AY flight to HEL is showing "Go to gate" at the same time I see the Embraer 190 landing - is AY trying to do a FR-like turn around here or what? For my flight to CPH the same is displayed around 45 minutes before departure when they announce gate 24. It's not too far from the main atrium, so I decide not to hurry, making my way there 20 minutes later.
As soon as I reach the gate they page me and some other pax to contact the gate staff. For a while I'm hoping for an op-up and hand my BP over to the nice older gate agent who over strikes my original seat 7F and writes 8F there instead, explaining with "They changed the configuration of the plane". I ask if I could have 1A instead, which causes a chuckle at the people around me but he just smiles and answers with "Unfortunately not, sir. Enjoy your flight.".
The online check in was showing an MD-87 for this flight, but the actual equipment is an MD-82 instead. Luckily one that I've haven't been on before - I've covered quite a few SAS MDs so new ones are getting rare.
MD-82 LN-ROU "Ring Viking"
Seat 8F
19.04 - 21.41
Right after the seat changes we are invited to board, once again I'm the very first person to board Ring Viking. The SK cloth seats are very comfortable and offer good legroom (especially after FR!). Looking at the cabin you'd be hard pressed to see that LN-ROU is actually over 23 years old, having been delivered to SAS in June 1986!
There is one row of business class and rows 2-7 are reserved for economy extra, with only a handful of people there. Economy looks like to be around 70% full, luckily the middle seat next to me being empty.
We push back six minutes before schedule after a company 737-600 to ARN:
and taxi past Terminal 2:
to runway 23L for departure. Emirates 777-300ER holding short for us:
A very powerful but quiet take off, in true MD-80 fashion follows. These birds are very quiet up front, which I prefer. However try sitting next to the engines around row 32 and things are very different indeed . We make a lazy right turn circling the city to the north and make a beeline towards the North Sea coast.
Once again views are pretty much overcast for most of the journey, but I manage to spot a few flames from the oil platform-Almost full moon:
I try to read for a bit but soon start drifting off into sleep. I wake a few times when the first officer gives out a rather long speech which I mostly miss - I just make out that we have a good tailwind and the whole flight will take 1h30mins. I'm finally awakened by the FA asking me to put my IPod away for landing - looking out of the window I see the night has fallen and we are flying quite low, bypassing Copenhangen city on the northwestern side. From here we fly over the Øresund, before making a tight right hand turn to join the traffic flow into 22L. The views over the Copenhagen area are very moody with millions of lights shining in the darkness. Then we glide down to the runway, landing around 20 minutes before schedule, taxi past the the plane for my next flight to the non-Schengen D-pier. A BA A321 arrives right after us on the next gate.
Copenhagen Airport
Deboarding is fast, and the walk to immigration wakes me up from my slumber. Immigration is painless, as it usually is here, despite the large numbers of passengers from the BA flight. There aren't too many flights around any more, just the late night departures to ARN, HEL, OSL and BKK so the airport is rather deserted and quiet - apart from the BKK-bound passengers, many of whom seem to be in a rowdy mood. Feeling a bit peckish again I grab a hotdog from the fortunately still open hot dog place and am horrified by the prices that seem to have gone up once again. Almost 10 EUR for a beer and a hot dog is highway robbery if you ask me.
The departure gate for the final flight of the day is A7, which is very far from the D-pier. However I appreciate the walk since it gives me a chance to stretch my legs. On the way I see OH-SAL at the gate - after 4 new planes today it was about time to get a well-travelled bird, this will become my 8th flight on "Orivesi".
ARJ-85 OH-SAL "Orivesi"
Seat 15A
22.34 - 1.02 (+1)
Boarding is underway as I get to the gate, so I board pretty much straight away. Load is quite high, with only a few empty seats here and there - not next to me, unfortunately. Boarding is finished in no time at all - I guess everybody's just eager to get home and sleep.
We push back 6 minutes before schedule, with an announced flight time of 1h20mins, and take off from 22R just two minutes later. Departure is the standard one for HEL flights - first straight towards the southwest, then a lazy left hand turn, passing the famous bridge on the eastern side and directly overflying Malmö city.
The Russian couple next to me is confused about the on board offerings and their prices (so am I, so am I) and in the end settle just for the free tea and their own packaged food (no mushrooms!) since the selection at the sales cart is rather limited at this time of night. I know I will regret it but I can't resist buying a white wine to knock me out to sleep and celebrate the successful travel day. It has the intended effect, and I fall asleep listening to some mellow tunes, only being woken by the flight attendant asking me to shut down my IPod for landing for a second time today. I see that we are on finals to runway 15 as expected for a late night arrival, and land a few minutes later, almost 20 minutes before schedule.
We taxi quickly to gate 13 at T1 and deboard. Walking to the baggage claim and exit I get a better look at the T1 facilities or rather the lack of them. The whole place is deserted, which is to be expected since ours is one of the very last arrivals of the day. There's a very makeshift looking bar and not much else, apart from the plywood and construction equipment. The baggage claim hall is unfinished as well. Being far too tired to mess around riding a bus home I splurge on a taxi. The nice and chatty young driver gets me home in 10 minutes, where I am around 1.30 AM, with a full workday ahead of me.
Another day well spent, although the late arrival felt like a killer the next day. The direct AY flight would've been much better as it would've gotten me home already a bit after 23.00. Oh, I'm actually taking that one the next time from MAN, in early November. I was lucky to score 4 new planes and one new airport for my log, that's always refreshing.
Air Baltic was great with that special Air Iceland equipment, although to be honest inside it didn't feel that much different from a regular BT Fokker, even the same musky smell was there. I just hope they'd do something regarding the check in situation in HEL - either fix the bookings so that the machines work or preferably add HEL to the list of OLCI-enabled stations.
RyanAir is RyanAir. You get exactly what you pay for - I have no problem with them when the fares are this low. I know exactly what I will get and that's fine. However the ground handling is what really let them down this time - how hard would it be to make some announcements when there's a delay - instead of just letting people sit in the bus with no information? Or do something regarding the stupid boarding setup in CRL where you have to wait in the smelly corridor, again with no information?
SAS and Blue 1 - I've flown almost 200 flights on them combined so I know what to expect. Nice, friendly crews (most of the time), interesting and comfortable planes (this time, some of the new 737 seats are truly horrible however) - just shame about the BOB in flight service. Both flights were early today, both departure and arrival which is pretty well done.
Happy flights everyone and looking forward to comments!
My next trip and thus TR will be HEL-RIX-TKU-OUL-HEL in a week's time.


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LANSING, MI —Lt. Gov. Brian Calley is leading a group of business, government and economic development leaders on a six-day trip to the Netherlands to encourage investment in Michigan and strengthen cultural and business relationships.
Michigan, particularly the Grand Rapids and Holland area, has deep historical and cultural ties to the Netherlands. West Michigan even has an honorary Dutch consul, who also is going on the trip.
"Michigan's long-standing ties with Dutch companies have resulted in good jobs here and we look forward to further strengthening these highly productive relationships," Calley said in a statement. "We will be delivering the message that Michigan is more business-friendly than ever and the best state in the North American market to compete and grow."
They leave on Saturday and return the following Friday. They'll visit with representatives from the finance, agricultural production, technology and automotive sectors in Dutch regions including The Hague, Amsterdam and Zeeland.
More than 40 people are making the trip, including House Speaker Jase Bolger, Sen. Arlan Meekhof, and representatives from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Grand Valley State University.
Participating companies include Haworth, Huntington Bank, Celebration Cinema, and Ernst & Young and others. Several participants are bringing their spouses.
The MEDC is paying for its staff members and Calley, while companies and other economic development groups will cover their own costs. Most of Bolger's and Meekhof's expenses are being covered by the West Michigan Global Initiative, with some coming from their own pockets. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is paying for its director and a staff member to attend.
The trip builds on relationships built during a visit from several Dutch business leaders to the state last fall. The visit was organized by the West Michigan Global Initiative, a privately funded business-led organization that fosters partnerships between Dutch and Michigan business leaders.
"At the end of the day we want to increase economic activity on both sides of the ocean, help create new jobs, strengthen our economies and build lasting friendships," said Chris Knape, spokesman for the group.
The United States and the Netherlands are the world's top two agricultural exporters by dollar value, so Michigan ag leaders want to talk about sharing research and development.
Economic development officials also want to meet with Dutch firms that have facilities in southeast Michigan. They hope to convince one automotive supplier with three Michigan locations to choose the state for its next expansion, said Mark Kinsler, the MEDC's vice president for international business development.
Michigan companies exported $332.8 million in merchandise to the Netherlands last year, down 12 percent from 2011. Chemicals accounted for nearly a third of Michigan's exports to the Netherlands last year, followed by computer and electronic products, transportation equipment and machinery (except electrical).
The country is Michigan's 18th largest export market and is the seventh-largest country for direct investment in the state in terms of projects.
The Netherlands trip follows Gov. Rick Snyder's trade mission to Italy and Germany in March 2012 and his export mission to China last September.
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Although Governor General David Johnston said goodbye to Prince Albert on Tuesday night, a grounded flight kept him in town for an extra day.
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Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his Sharon Johnston sat together Mayor Jim Scarrow at the Alfred Jenkins Fieldhouse, on Tuesday evening. They presented three people the Governor Generalãs Caring Canadian Award for service in the community. The three individuals to receive the award were Fern Lloyd, Talia York and Barbara Hogeweide.
Although Governor General David Johnston said goodbye to Prince Albert on Tuesday night, a grounded flight kept him in town for an extra day.
ãThey got up in the morning, and walked from the Holiday Inn to the river and back ã that was their morning exercises, so they do a lot of walking,ã Mayor Jim Scarrow said of Johnston and his wife Sharonãs extra morning in the city.
They had intended on spending Wednesday in northern Saskatchewan, but limited visibility kept them in Prince Albert until about 2 p.m., when they departed for Regina.
After their morning walk, the Johnstons went out for breakfast, where two trustees from the Northern Lights School Division recognized them from pictures printed in Wednesdayãs edition of the Daily Herald.
After confirming his identity, the trustees invited him to speak at their annual teachersã convention, which was taking place in the city, an invitation Johnston accepted.
ãHe was fabulous with the teachers. He really has an affinity to young people ã particularly in the north, and I think he was disappointed that they werenãt going there,ã Scarrow said.
With teachers from the Northern Lights School Division serving northern Saskatchewan, his presentation provided a means of reaching these communities, despite missing out on visiting them due to his grounded flight.
ãIt was a great event, and I think he was really tickled that he could reach out to that community,ã Scarrow said.
During his extra time in Prince Albert, Johnston also visited City Hall for a second time.
Scarrow calls the Governor Generalãs visit to Prince Albert, which was organized by the city, a success.
ãIt was outstanding,ã he said. ãThey are truly, truly nice people. Everywhere they went they shook more hands than the people would expect.ã
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Altmar, NY -- The 252 or so registered voters in Altmar head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether they want the village's dissolution plan to take effect.
The dissolution plan, researched and written by the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester with help from a local dissolution committee, contains information on what will happen to village assets, what village and town taxes will look like, what services will be provided and what town staffing will look like if the village government is abolished.
Voters will vote only on whether the plan should go into effect. Residents already approved abolishing the village in a vote Nov. 20, 2010.
If village voters accept the dissolution plan during the Dec. 6 vote, Altmar will be abolished June 1, 2013. If voters reject the plan, Altmar remains a village. But residents could submit another petition at any time to begin the dissolution process again.
If abolished, Altmar would be the first municipality in the Central New York four-county area to dissolve since a new state law took effect to make the process easier. Camillus residents voted Nov. 8 not to dissolve.
Voters will see wording similar to the following at the polls: "The voters of the village of Altmar, having previously voted to dissolve, shall the dissolution plan take effect? YES or NO
Here are some highlights of the dissolution plan:
Village taxes: Village residents will see substantial tax savings if Altmar is dissolved. The plan states village residents with houses assessed at $50,000 would see village/town taxes go from $486 a year to $304 a year. If the town of Albion receives state money for municipalities that consolidate, Altmar residents would see yearly town taxes of $269.
Town of Albion taxes: Albion residents living outside Altmar wouldn't see much change in taxes. The plan states town residents with a house assessed at $50,000 would see taxes go from $250 a year to $261 without state consolidation aid, but from $250 to $226 with the state money.
Fire department: The village's largest asset. The dissolution plan calls for the department to become an independent fire department.
Chris Valens of the state Department of State, said this means the fire department would be owned by the town of Albion. The fire department cannot own the assets of the fire department. The town would lease fire department assets back to the department, usually for about $1 a year.
The town would contract with the independent fire corporation to provide protection to the service area. The town would collect taxes from residents for fire protection and pay the fire department the amount listed in the contract.
Valen also said while the department would be independent when dissolution occurs, the town board could change that. He said the town board can decide to keep the independent department or switch to a fire district, which would be its own body governed by an elected board of fire commissioners.
Village liabilities: The plan states the village has no lawsuits against it and has no long-term debt.
Village assets: The insured value of village equipment is $64,400 and village fire equipment is $898,600. Street light poles, conduits and fixtures owned by National Grid. Village assets will be turned over to Albion when the village dissolves.
Debt: The principal on village debt as of May 31 is $151,206 for two fire trucks.
Services maintained: Services provided by the village that will be provided by the town if the village dissolves include local government representation, clerical and administrative services (no additional pay for town employees), code enforcement, road, storm sewer, building maintenance, street sweeping and related services, mowing of municipal building grounds and cemetery and fire and emergency medical services.
Services discontinued: Brush and leaf pick up, sidewalk maintenance. Sidewalks will be maintained by village residents. A town law is supposed to be developed concerning sidewalk replacement.
The dissolution process began last year when resident Bryan Myers submitted a petition to the village board asking for a vote of residents on whether the village should be abolished. Residents voted 80 to 74 to abolish the village.
But then on Sept. 17, a petition signed by 102 people was submitted to the village forcing a vote on the dissolution plan. The plan was approved by the village board Aug. 3.
Here are the members of the Altmar dissolution committee: Mayor Corey W. Holcomb; Village Clerk Margaret Bailey; fire chief Carl W. Holcomb; Village Trustee Tom Reff; Town Supervisor Carl E Anson Jr.; Town Board Member Ronald Eldred; resident Philip G. Bortz. Staff from the Center for Government Research were project director Charlie Zettek and project manager Vicki Brown.
For more information
To read the entire dissolution plan or a summary of the plan, go to this link.
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What's the World's Drinking Game? It sounds like something my friends and I would enjoy while watching the Worlds.
Go to FSUniverse and do a search. That's how I found it. I don't know if I can directly link to it or not. It looks like it'll be fun. My brother and I are eating Kahlua cake instead of drinking it straight.
I keep getting Flight Simulator Universe? Can you post a link? Thanks, by the way!
The link is www.fsuniverse.net. I always accidentally type in .com. I've really enjoyed that site as a spoiled person for this Championship.
Happy Hunting!!
Thank's Doggygirl! Looks like we'll be getting pretty wasted on Saturday night.
I just now went and actually searched for the drinking game thread and read it. ROFLMAO!!!!! Too funny. Yes, all players will definitely be wasted long before the final free program flight begins.
Does anyone know why they won't allow you to register? I registered last November but don't post much and now they won't let me use my ID or password? Can anyone give me info on how they do things over there?
I recall seeing something when I registered on Sunday (just under the wire!) that they close down registrations while World's are going on. I think it has to do with concerns about site traffic during the competition and the load on their server.
As an example, while events are going on they have rules such as only pushing "refresh" no more than once every five minutes, and they also restrict posting to sponsors only (I think that means people who donate to the site) once the number of people on line reaches 500.
It's been interesting since a lot of the members are from Europe, and are posting comments as they are watching on TV while I'm only able to listen to the audio feed from Eurosport. So it seems many people go on-line to get some "live action feedback" during the events.
It's interesting that you were registered before, and aren't now. We should find out how that works to make sure we are registered in the right time frame for the next big season.
Mean time, I wish I could copy that post because it is absolutely hilarious. But of course that's against policy at both ends, so won't do that. Just trust me, Dick and Peggy's remarks (and other standard things) are pretty predictable in the US coverage model. That's sort of the basis of the joke, and you would DEFINITELY be hammered by the end of it all if it were a "real" game.
I couldn't get into the thing to read it, either, but I had a feeling it probably had something to do with Peggy & Dick. With Dick Button, I would imagine it would have something to do with the amount of times he says his chosen word or phrase of the night; he has a tendency to use it with every single skater and it seems to vary with each competition and each night -- but you can usually figure out what it's going to be about halfway through the second skater shown.:D
I think I'm actually going to try this Friday night
It sounds like a good way to get a fun night started!!!
Johnny, you're definitely on the right track. Heck, we would ALL be hammered if we simply took a sip every time Dick says "that was first rate" or "that layback position needs improvement."
Peggy gushing about Sasha being unbeatable before she even skates, or re-runs of Dick's spins from back before we were born require chugging.
Take a sip when Suzie does an "Ice Move." Chug if the "Ice Move" is done in a harness. LOLOL!
OK - I've probably stepped over the line already, but since this is just a fun thing and not a serious report about a skater's performance I hope I will be forgiven.
Kara...I am MIGHTY JEALOUS that you can play on Friday night!!! No coverage here in the US that I know of on Friday night. So....I guess I'll have to play tonight! That will give me tomorrow to recover, and then play again on Saturday.
Mmmh, Kahlua cake sounds delicious! What about posting the recipe for that in the "Le Cafe"-forum? :DOriginally posted by childfreegirl
My brother and I are eating Kahlua cake instead of drinking it straight.
I'm sort of playing (not really, but do have an adult beverage in hand LOL) and am LOSING by having to take sips every time Dick mentions "flailing arms" and "nit picking."
Heheh I have a recipe for Bailey Brownie....Interested?Originally posted by Evdokia
Mmmh, Kahlua cake sounds delicious! What about posting the recipe for that in the "Le Cafe"-forum? :D
Here it is....
Posted: 21 Mar 2004 00:01 Post subject:
Bailey's brownies...yummy!
3 oz unsweetened baking chocolate
1/2 c. butter
1 c. granulated sugar
2 eggs, beaten
3 T. Bailey's Irish Creme
2/3 c. flour
Dash of salt
2/3 C. chocolate chips
Melt unsweetened chocolate with butter (I use the microwave - 'bout two and a half minutes in a pyrex bowl). Mix well, until chocolate is completely melted. Cool.
Beat sugar and eggs together in mixing bowl. Add Bailey's and cooled chocolate mixture. Mix well. Stir in flour, salt and chocolate chips. Pour into greased and floured 8-inch square baking pan. Bake at 325 for 35 minutes (test with wooden pick). Cool completely (about 1 1/2 hours).
Pierce brownies with wooden pick randomly. Drizzle Bailey's over the brownies then frost (I drizzle about the same amount as what I put in the mix - 3 T.).
3 T. softened butter
4 T. Bailey's
3 c. powdered sugar
In mixing bowl combine Bailey's and butter. Mix well. Gradually add confectioners sugar and beat until spreading consistency. Frost cooled brownies.
(Sometimes I don't frost 'em at all. They're good with just a sprinkling of powdered sugar over 'em.)


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