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WTNH SCHOOL CLOSINGS

January 26, 2011 by · Comments Off on WTNH SCHOOL CLOSINGS 

WTNH SCHOOL CLOSINGS, (WTNH) – When the bus drivers have until Monday morning at Oxford, the temperature was in double digits, double digits below zero.

All buses have begun, but they did not do very far from the court. Monday was a snow day at Oxford, without the entire shovel, but a lot of headaches. Once implemented school buses, diesel fuel began to freeze in the reservoir, which means the closing of elementary and middle schools of the day.

“Once in place gels, they do not start at all,” a bus driver said. While the cold of winter has frozen the day for students, there are people like John Famiglietti Eastwood Towing busier than ever.

“I do a lot of towing, many jump starts, especially with diesel trucks. Yep cold. Pretty, “said Famiglietti.

A Classic coach works in Southbury, they have a stack of car batteries and truck inside.

“Selling a lot of batteries, towing a lot of cars, put the batteries in their diesel trucks to the processing in the fuel. We must have done about 26 service calls so far today, and we still a list of more to get to. “Mongelli James Classic Works said the coach.

The maintenance crew spent the day working on buses replaces filters and a thinning of fuel, so it should be all systems go in the morning.

Source: http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/cold-temps-too-much-for-oxford-buses

Wfsb

January 7, 2011 by · Comments Off on Wfsb 

Wfsb, Hartford Children’s Theatre presents “Annie” opened Friday and until 16 January to Hoffman Auditorium, Saint Joseph College, 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford. Performance this weekend from Friday at 19 pm on Saturday at 10 am and 14 pm and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Performances continue Jan. 14 at 19 pm Jan. 15 at 10 am and 14 am and 2 am on January 16 celebrities Connecticut Scot Haney (from WFSB Channel 3) and Kate Bolduc (Greater Hartford Arts Council CEO) appears for a show on January 8 to 14 hours in the roles of “Bert Healy” and “Star to Be.” Notes are $ 18 and $ 13 for senior and students 17 and under. Information: 860-249-7970 or http://www.hartfordchildrenstheatre.org. A celebration opening party will take place Fridayat 6 am Stroll on the red carpet and be photographed with “Annie,” “Daddy Warbucks” and “Miss Hannigan” enjoy New York City on the theme of trafficking and have your caricature done to the wall at Sardi’s.
AdvertisementThe Mashantucket Pequot Museum presents a Family Health & Wellness Fair Saturday 11:00 to 3:00 p.m. Several organizations and vendors will provide information, services, activities and products to promote healthy lifestyles. Museum admission is $ 15 (ages 16 to 54) and 13 elderly (55 years and older), $ 10 children 6-15, children under 6 are free. Museum members are free. The museum is at 110 Pequot Trail, Mashantucket. Snow date is Jan. 15. Information: http: //www.pequotmuseum.org.

Disney On Ice Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey Continues this week and next at two Connecticut locations. Shows at XL Center Hartford tonight and Friday at 19 pm on Saturday at 11 am, 3 and 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday at 1 and 4:30 p.m. Performances at Arena at Harbor Yard Bridgeport begin Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. and continue on January 13 at 10:30 am and 7:00 p.m., 14 January at 7:30 p.m., January 15 at 10 am, 2 and 18 hours on January 16 to 11 hours, 15 hours and 17 January to 1 am Tickets are $ 15, $ 20 and $ 25, $ 45 for VIP and $ 60 for the front seats. Seats opening tonight in Bridgeport on Wednesday and 12 are each, excluding VIP and front row. Prices do not include the cost of the city or service charges. Tickets: 800-745-3000 or http://www.ticketmaster.com. Information: http://www.disneyonice.com.

Source: http: //articles.courant.com/2011-01-06/entertainment/hc-family-events-0106-20110106_1_senior-citizens-opening-night-seats-performances

Philadelphia Weather

December 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Philadelphia Weather 

Philadelphia Weather, (AP) – The beautiful weather contributed to party stay an experience not so bad in much of the country Thursday, with even more people are moving than last year, but the chance to travel could be short.

A storm would bring snow and ice to parts of the heart Friday to offer a rare white Christmas in Nashville on Saturday and perhaps sock swaths of the Northeast on Sunday.

“People who go to grandma’s house,” said Bobby Boyd, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Nashville, “need to go.”

Eric and Tatiana Chodkowski, of Boston, were conducted Thursday with their children, aged 2 and 4, to see relatives in New York. They said forecasts for snow on Sunday was whether they were doing at the time, as expected.

They found the roads congested, but manageable Thursday, and most people find the country’s airports to be in the same way.

Planes took off in the wind, but the sky to welcome New York LaGuardia Airport as Steve Kent ready to fly to Denver for a ski trip with family, scoffing at the puny lines.

“I do not find it so difficult,” he said. “I think Thanksgiving is more difficult.”

At airports, security lines long feared over Thanksgiving, when almost everyone is on the same day, never materialized, and we do not expect that day. Spread nature of year-end holidays means things will not be quite so cramped.

Travelers may notice that the airport controllers take closer insulated beverage containers such as empty thermos, because the airlines were warned of a potential terror tactics by involving an administration official said.

The official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive issues of security, said there is no information about an active terror plot. The Homeland Security Department regularly alerts law enforcement on the changing tactics of terror.

The Air Transport Association expects 44.3 million people on U.S. flights between December 16 and January 5 – up 3 percent over the same period a year ago but still below the volume of travel ‘before the recession. The average ticket price and is 421, up 5 percent.

Vino Volo Wine Room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport receives more passengers, manager Mark Del Duco, said Thursday.

“The atmosphere of Christmas is gone this year than last year, he said, estimating that sales are up this 10 percent this season compared to last year as travelers spend more freely financially confident.

Mike Lukosavich, Harrison Township, Mich., was surprised the first leg of his trip was moving so smoothly when he stopped at the rest area on Highway in Elmore, Ohio, Ohio, near Toledo.

He, his wife and their 8-month daughter were heading to see family in Parkersburg, West Virginia His headache did not come when he saw gas prices by about a gallon and 3.

“It’s something you have to do to see the family,” said Lukosavich, 33.

The AAA Travel has provided overall increase of about 3 percent this year, with more than 92 million people intend to go over 50 miles somewhere between now and January 2. Over 90 percent said they would be driving.

Maria Romero, a cashier at the Chevron Food Mart just off Interstate 15 in Barstow, Calif., said she has seen an increase in passenger numbers there, especially families and people of outside the state.

“It’s wonderful. We need it, “she said.”The busier the better.”

Some passengers were not pleased with their mode of transport. Anthony Lauro joined nearly 100 people lined up Thursday morning for a coach in Montreal related to the Port Authority of New York and the bus station from New Jersey to Manhattan. He faces a race of eight hours to see his girlfriend there.

“Flying in Canada is astronomically too expensive,” he said.

Help matters that the party’s most densely populated country has got a break in time on Thursday with rain finally stopped in California and a few days in the East.

But the storm was a concern in parts of Thursday abdomen of the nation.

Steve Brown, 50, of Elm Creek, Nebraska, left Tuesday afternoon and drove all night to beat the storm as it made its way east. Brown, a grain carrier, took her two children to see her mother on the dairy farm in Ohio where he grew up.

“I was about to go home or she would pick me,” Brown said during the rest area Elmore, where adults full of coffee while the children, traveling in pajamas, Tater Tots loaded on.

After the record snow falls in the East and a treacherous Christmas travel season last year, the average time travel can mess seem to be on many minds?

At LaGuardia, Mike and Martha Lee Mellis expected to go to Aspen, Colorado with their three young sons. They feared a repeat of the ski trip last winter when a blizzard struck when they were transferred to Chicago on the way home.

“We had to go through Philadelphia, and I had to rent a car and house everyone drives at 11 at night,” recalled Mike Mellis.

His wife had tried to forget, saying: “I blocked everything.”

Mulvihill reported Haddonfield, NJ contributed to this report were Associated Press writers David Goodman in Detroit, Eileen Sullivan in Washington and Samantha Bomkamp; L. Lucas Johnson II in Nashville, Tennessee; Verena Dobnik in New York, Michelle Price in Phoenix, Mark Pratt in Boston, and John Seewer in Elmore, Ohio.

Copyright © 2010 the Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Today Show

December 14, 2010 by · Comments Off on Today Show 

Today Show, It was a hot summer night in July 2002 when Menifee elementary school teacher Gabrielle Smith and Director of International Sales District Peter Tehrani first meeting. Smith was with friends enjoying a night when Tehrani was presented. Her strong British accent was music to the ears of Smith and she was hooked. Although both were already married with children, they are not afraid to fall in love again.

Less than a year of meeting they exchanged vows, have combined their families and moved to Murrieta to live happily ever after.

On July 3, 2009, Tehrani path of happiness after all became chaotic, robust and almost impossible to navigate. The couple sat sipping coffee in their kitchen, cooking breakfast when Peter complained he did not feel well. He felt dizzy and said that the room was spinning. He went to bed. Even if Pierre was healthy, avid runner who has eaten well and not smoking, Gabrielle thought he was having a heart attack. She called an ambulance and rushed him to Inland Valley Hospital.

The Tehran was in the ER for six hours while the state-Pierre worsened and he could not breathe. Peter suffered a stroke. A blocked artery in his neck cut blood flow to the brain. He was taken to hospital in Loma Linda. He could not breathe by himself, and his body went into a condition called locked-in syndrome. Locked-in syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by complete paralysis of voluntary muscles in all parts of the body, except for those that controls eye movement. It is usually a complication of a stroke in the base of the pons in the brainstem. Doctors said that if Peter Gabriel had survived, it was how he spent the rest of his life imprisoned in a body he could not move.

While Gabrielle about to make her husband’s rights last reading of the doctors asked if resuscitation has been an option if the state of Peter is weakened. Gabrielle said her quality of life was dark, so she asked Peter what he wanted. With only his eyes, Peter said he wanted to live.

“That’s Peter. He is a motivator, always lively, goal oriented. He does not leave, “said Gabrielle.

Four weeks later, Peter began to show his doctors that he could beat their chances. He started moving his head and thumb, and he was weaned from the ventilator. In October 2009, he moved his hands.

Peter spent seven months in three different hospitals. He did not let the doctors and therapists tell him what he can or can not do. He showed them what he could do.

“By the grace of God and the determination he is home,” said Gabrielle. “The race seriously damaged his motor skills,
But the rest of his brain is fully intact. ”

Still unable to walk or talk, Peter can move much of his right and slowly gaining momentum and feeling on his left side.

Gabrielle was so proud of her husband’s struggle to recover and beat the odds, she wrote to the producers of the Today morning show on NBC for a chance to win a trip to New York and Kathie Lee Gifford write a song about her husbands story.

November 29 producers called Gabrielle and announced live on television, she won. The producers flew to New York to Tehran this evening.

It was the first trip the couple since the stroke. They stayed in a hotel overlooking the Rockefeller Center. They saw the lighting of the Rockefeller Christmas tree, shopping, people watched and enjoyed the holidays.

Thursday, Tehran went to NBC Studios for their meeting with Gifford and actor Justin Long – a fill in co-host Hoda Kotb.

Gifford and David Friedman wrote a song for Gabrielle entitled “Happily Ever After”. Broadway performer John Treacy Egan has sung.

“The song was great,” said Gabrielle. “It was written as if it was the voice of John’s to say thank you.”

An excerpt from the song said: “Sometimes I dream about everything we planned and cannot help but long for the fairyland, but then you touch me with so much love I could cry and it I know I’m still your man.”

Peter, who can now use an alphabet table to talk, said: “The song captured how I feel fine.”

Gabrielle said when she and Peter married; they married without condition, for better or for worse. Peter nodded; they decided that was what marriage was about.

It is not difficult to see the love of Tehran have for each other. Peters love can be seen through his eyes. They are still in many respects the same torque as before the stroke. They tease, laugh, bicker and from time to time.

“I am the disorder according to Peter,” said Gabrielle. “If he sees socks on the floor, I pick them,”

The couple has an amazing ability to communicate that goes beyond words. New goal is to wean Peter the feeding tube and eat and drink in January. In summer 2011 Peter wants to sit in the hot sun by the pool with his wife and children and sipping a Corona.

“We are on a different path now. It can not be happy whenever we initially expected, but it’s always a good way, “said Gabrielle.

Hartford Courant

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Hartford Courant 

Hartford Courant, Dave Altimari Hartford Courant is Dannel Malloy Democratic headquarters in Hartford tonight, and that the initial report.

The mood at the headquarters of Malloy’s followers feared that saw the first results come in. While Democrats running for U.S. senator, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general and candidate George Jepsen seemed fine, Malloy was a little behind in the first results.

A Democratic lawmaker said Malloy internal polls showed that in recent days that the trend toward independent voters Blumenthal and Foley, an ominous sign. The legislator said that preliminary figures from the major cities and medium-sized enterprises, where Malloy has to do and indicated participation was good.

Malloy was putting the results into a nearby hotel room at the Residence Inn with his family while other Democrats met in the Board of the Company on Pratt Street.

Casting a shadow over the whole race was confusion problems with the ballots in Bridgeport. Malloy and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley of Greenwich both have their own lawyers in court on the emergency hearing related to the ability to keep 12 polling stations open until 10 pm Bridgeport Malloy needs large numbers in the heavily Democratic city for win.

“One night I received a lot longer,”said the legislator.” This will be a close race either way.”

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