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Is that just at night, or does that number signifcantly increase, especially during business hours and holidays?

The manning on all companies is the same on the day tour and on the night tour. There is more "running" during the day, but more possibility of life loss (people sleeping) and delayed discovery at night. The 5th man on 60 engine companies will probably be "taken" by the city at the end of this union (UFA) contract.

Certain times the manning goes up, during anticipated storms. Not to be a harbinger of doom, but we've been sitting in the office trying to figure out, what would happen if we lose as many companies as the mayor wants to shut down. Probably going to see a lot of times we go into Fallback. We're also waiting to see if there are more cuts on our end of the job.

I think what Seth was getting at, and please correct me if I am wrong, but is that 4000:1 ratio measuring just residents (and others spending 24 hours or more at a time) in the city, or does it include all the employees and tourists that come in simply for the daytime hours. I am assuming that the actualnumber of people in NYC during the daytime hours is higher than it is at night.

I was able to pick up this one as well as the Harvey from this site. Been looking for the rest of the fireboats, think there are only 4 others, as well as the display covers. Of course I cant seem to find them for this cheap.

Saw TL-21 traveling East on Route 80 in Ohio yesterday.

Yes it was, right off of Rt 1.

Thank you for the reply.

It's about time they did something. This was bound to be a failure. I find it interesting that Leno's show has been performing, according to NBC, "exactly as we predicted it would". Guess nobody thought about what those lower ratings in the 10 PM hour would do for the other shows that follow. Couple that with the traditionally low ratings for a new show in a new latenight slot (Conan on at 1135) and it spells disaster. I used to enjoy Leno's Tonight show tenure. I never watched his 10 PM show though. I thought Conan on at 1235 was a great show. Now it is unwatchable at 1135. Way to destroy not only two shows but throw your entire network down the crapper NBC. You cancel shows like Southland, and put shows like Law and Order: Special Victims Unit behind the eight ball by forcing them to air before the 10 oclock hour.

Bravo NBC. If you didnt have Chuck coming back, and the Olympics coming up, there are few reasons to even watch your network during primetime anymore.

Thanks for looking , tried out my new Nikon D60 camera.

Holiday present?

Very good looking shots.

This looks to be right in front of the post office, no?

Oh, and I might add that other forums I've been studying and other webmasters I've been talking to use a reputation system and it works very well for them once members get used to it and you fine tune it to your particular forum.

A couple of forums that I am on use a rep system. The ones that "work well" seem to be a positive only system with a sliding scale of how many "points" you can add to a persons reputation based on post numbers or how long you have been a member. I have yet to see a negative reputation system work, however. None of the sites that I frequent that have these systems actually do anything with the points, though. They just show up next to the members screenname.

Once you take and pass the tests there's a fee for the drivers license. Last summer I renewed my class B and it was $168.00. If you get the hazmat endorsement it's an additional $140.00 for the background checks. Since I renewed I believe the license fees went up due to the MTA debacle last year.

Wow. That's expensive. State of CT is $60 for a "four year" Class B license. My license was issued 8-1-09 and expires 8-11-12. So unless my math is wrong, the first year was only 11 days long.

(Anyone remember the LODD fire in Pittsburgh where the front was at street level but the rear was a couple of floors below and no one knew).

Yeah, the Bricelyn St fire. First thing I thought about when the topic of 360 walkarounds came up. Other factors contributed to the three line of duty deaths, but that was a big one at that fire.

Everyone should read more about that fire: http://www.interfire.org/res_file/pdf/Tr-078.pdf

Good job Captain!

This is why people should learn CPR, you never know who you may have to help. I've always felt that CPR should be taught in High School and offered routinely in every community. NYS wants to make some money...make every driver pay $5 every two years to take a CPR class to keep their license!

We were taught CPR in middle school. When I say we, I mean everyone in my grade. I think it was eigth grade.

This time window was established to prevent confusion and a loss of continuity when posts were edited long after they were posted. Editing in many cases caused subsequent messages to lose their meaning or relevance.

I totally understand the reasoning behind it, and agree that it can lead to confusion further into the thread. That is why I quote the message that I am replying to. It just seems like an awfully short window for me to edit my posts. In fact, editing isnt working at all on my end at the moment. On top of that, one can apparently delete one's posts long after the window for editing has expired.

Is there a time out for howlong we can edit our posts? Posts I made yesterday no longer have the "Edit" button, but posts I make today do.

One other thing i noticed, is the banner advertising teh advertising possibilities seems to show up when not logged in, but I get a red x when I am logged in.

Not to be a post whore or anything, but I dont like the fact that the links in the recent threads list on the opening page take you to the most recent post int he thread, rather than the beginning of the thread. Can we get some means to go to the beginning of a thread, or the first unread post in a thread?

Also, I cannot apprently edit the above nessage to delete the extra "s".

This issue should now be resolved. Please advise if it is.

That issues appears to be addressed. Looks good.

However, now the icon below your and Chris192's avatar, and above the add as a friend and PM buttons is showing up as a broken image.

Looks great, of course it will take a bit for me to get used to but so far so good from my side of it all. Thanks for everything!

This post is showing up as 2 pages of blank space under the text. Additionally, when I mouse over the reply or quote buttons they dissappear. If I click where one used to be, it works and when I move the mouse they reappear. I am using I am using IE 7.0.5730.11 .

Does the DMV offer drivers tests in other languages?

CT apparently does. From here:

http://www.ct.gov/dmv/cwp/view.asp?a=805&q=318042

Knowledge tests are given in the following languages:

Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somalian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

The DMV gives oral tests in English only.

Havent seen any steet or road signs in languages other than English though..

I wonder if there's a generational and/or cultural factor going on here? I'm a bit older than you, and I was born and raised in Scotland. And I can assure you there was hardly a kid in the school without a penknife or clasp knife in his pocket (and yes, it was mostly - but certainly not exclusively - the boys who carried them). They were never regarded or used as weapons, so I think to dismiss my position as 'ridiculous' is based on ignorance. It simply was never an issue.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if carrying a knife as an everyday object was, and still is, common in the USA - especially outside the cities. Rural areas, farm kids.

As for the rule... I frankly don't know; I haven't read the rule and neither have you. If the rule is being interpreted to define that knife as a 'weapon', then (in my view) the rule is being interpreted wrongly, perhaps by an over-zealous administrator.

If (as you would say in your view) the interpretation is correct, then it doesn't deserve punishment. "That's technically against the rules, don't do it again. If you really need to keep the knife in the car, ask - and we can give you dispensation to do so". Reasonable proportionate response?

I have maintained since this thread started that I thought that the punishment was overly severe. The only rules I am able to find on their website are for the elementary and middle schools. Both of these specify knives as weapons. According to the punishments listed in the Middle schools rulebook, this punishment was way overboard.

Your statement that nobody ever used a knife as a weapon is simply ridiculous. There is no possible way for you to know that.

Now, that's where we do differ. You seem to assume the definition of 'weapon' is as obvious and unarguable as the sun rising every morning, and dismiss my position contemptuously as a fantasy world. Some knives ARE weapons. Most are not. Most are tools. Size has nothing to do with it. To me, a system of logic which insists that a knife/fork/spoon camping set is clearly and obviously a weapon is incomprehensible. We won't agree, but can you see (however dimly) where I'm coming from?

So, a knife is not a weapon. That is a ridiculous position to take, but you are entitled to your position. If you want your kids carrying knives to school, that is your business, as long as the school allows it.

Bottom line here, whcih you dont seem to get, is that the school set a rule on what was allowed on its property and what wasnt. This kid broke the rule. He deserves to be punished.

I don't recall saying that; I have not personally read the rule, but it would appear he broke it. I was applying the same hypotheticals to the boy's defense as opposed to using them to hang him.

So he broke the rules yet doesnt deserve to be punished?

Ok, lets stop debating hypotheticals/philosophies here (what can be used as a weapon, zero tolerance, how dangerous life can be etc etc)...lets go with facts: the knife was not on his person, he admitted it, and he displayed no intent to use it. The young man can display ample reasons to have the knife and is clearly not keeping it for shits and giggles. We can argue about the rule until we're blue in the face. But since everyone insists on arguing on what might have been how about this: A young man of clearly good charachter (as a Scout and a person I was brought up to belive and do believe that being an Eagle scout and a soldier both mean a great deal) is in a bad situation that "may" negatively effect his chances of serving our nation in the respectable and honored way of his chosing/desire. That is just as upsetting as finding a weapon in the classroom. I'm really glad that as a citizen I was protected from a somenone who saved a life, is a leader, and wants to lead other defending my freedom...anyone detect any sarcasm???

Are you saying that he did not break the schools rules as they now stand?

What, exactly, is the point of trying to make a kid keep a keychain Swiss Army knife (for instance) locked in a car, when they can go to the cookery classroom and pick up a fish knife or a meat cleaver? Or a chisel from woodwork? Or any bloody classroom in the school and pick up scissors?

If you decide you want to have a rule against students having anything that could be a POTENTIAL weapon then I'm sorry you can't - such a rule is incompatible with educating humans once they get past pre-K. Unenforceable. Canute Syndrome. Actual weapons - things designed to hurt and kill - are a small class which can be described and controlled. Potential weapons can't.

Wow. God job totally misconstruing my viewpoint. When did I ever say anything about "potential" weapons being banned? Of course everythign can be a weapon, when used in that manner. That is obvious to anyone. My point, which you apparently missed was that the powers that be at the school (school board?) has decided to ban weapons from the school grounds. Perhaps in your fantasy world, a knife is not a weapon. But here on planet Earth a knife most certainly is a weapon. As is a gun. Just because it is small does not make it not a weapon. Since a Derrigner is a small gun, by your logic would it not be a weapon? Come on, use some common sense. As for those "potential weapons" that you seem hell bent on bringing up, my guess is that if someone tried to take that fish knife or meat cleaver out of cookery class, or take that chisel out of the Woodshop, that any school with a bit of sense would consider that a weapon, when not in its intended atmosphere. What would you think if you saw a kid brandishing a fish knife in algebra class? "Oh, thats ok. It is just a potential weapon. He is probably going to cut some fish later." Again, you need to have some common sense.

The school set the policies and rules long before this incident. They were made available to everyone. This kid broke the rule. He should be punished. If you had bothered to read the entirety of my posts you would have seen that I have repeatedly stated that I do not agree with the rule the way it is presently worded, nor do I agree with the punishment that was meted out.

You seem to favour an authoritarian viewpoint - you want to have strict rules that make no sense, and you're big on enforcing them; everything is a 'weapon' to you, even if not designed or used as such. I'm sorry, we don't seem to inhabit the same universe, and I really can't understand your point of view. I prefer freedom.

Please do not attempt to tell me what viewpoint I favor, escpecially when you are dead wrong. The only point that you actually got correct, is that I believe rules should be enforced. You are also correct in that we don't "inhabit the same universe". I live on planet Earth. Not sure where you are from. Someplace where everyone is allowed to carry fish knives in algebra class, I suppose. Again, please go back and reread my posts where I explicitly state that I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE ENTIRETY OF THIS RULE OR THE PUNISHMENT THEY HANDED DOWN. I most certainly do not favor "strict rules that make no sense". I beleive that the school board has every right to limit what comes on school grounds. I believe that weapons ahve no place in the classrooms. It seems that you think that every kid should be armed while attending school. Is that what you mean by you "prefer freedom"? I personally would rather not see another Columbine. But mabe that is just me.

It's the same story with schools - some schools at least, it's shock horror call the SWAT team if a kid has a penknife or a camping cutlery set - errrr excuse me do you think the school isn't already full of far more dangerous potential weapons? Or do kids in high school still have to ask the teacher to cut the paper because they can't be trusted with scissors? It's ONLY about paranoia, authoritarianism and control freakery. That kind of thing MUST be refused and resisted.

I say again, the emperor has no clothes.

When did the arguemnt that everyone else is doing it why cant I become valid for anything? Just because there are probably more weapons in the school, the school shouldnt enforce their rules when they find one? That makes no sense at all. While I agree that the punishment was extremely severe, more so than it perhaps should have been, the issue here, I think, is the rule itself. There should be a seperation of weapons on your person, inside the building vs locked up and secured in a vehicle in the parking lot. Providing that the weapon is legal.