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Eastern York Grad/SU Fan Continues to Improve After Battle with Leukemia (yorkdispatch.com; Strohecker)
The great thing about sports is that they can often give you some relief from the harsh realities that every day life can bring.
Whether it's engulfing yourself in an event on television for a couple hours or playing a pick-up game with friends in the park, athletics can help you escape many problems.
Such was the case for Brandon Hohenadel, when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2012 as a senior at Eastern York High School. In between chemotherapy sessions and his bone marrow transplant last spring, Brandon's outlet was basketball, a sport he played up through his freshman year at Eastern.
While he was still too frail to play the sport, he watched it on television, following two of his favorite teams, Villanova and Syracuse. When he finally worked up the strength to begin exercising again, the basketball court served as his gym.
It was there that he got back to, not only living a much more typical life, but back to his normal strength. He regained his strength and stamina to the point where playing pick-up games with his friends hardly affected him anymore.
"At first, I'd get really winded pretty quick and I wasn't able to do very much," he said. "I didn't really have any leg strength and I'd get fatigued really easily. But now I can do pretty much what I always could before — jump and run like I used to. So my conditioning is pretty good now. Back to normal."
Brandon even had the opportunity to go up to Syracuse this past December and got to meet the men's basketball team before one of its practices and then sit court side at the Dec. 22 game against Colgate.
But that was all information that he revealed when The York Dispatch first did a story on his condition last year.
Since then, his condition has only improved. The Eastern York grad has been in remission now for more than a year and just a year removed from his transplant, both of which are giant milestones in his path to recovery.
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Why a Syracuse Streetlight Costs Over $1500 Per Year (PS; Knauss)
The Salvation Army office in Syracuse pays $146 a year for ornamental streetlights in its downtown neighborhood. Now the bill could go up to $3,997.
The cost of fancy streetlights
Here's a breakdown of the annual charges for an ornamental streetlight on North Salina Street in Syracuse. National Grid owns each component except the pole, which is owned by the city. On some lights, the city also owns the concrete base.
Source: City of Syracuse
The nonprofit agency is one of roughly 2,900 homes and businesses affected by a massive reboot ofspecial lighting districts under discussion at city hall. The Common Council will conduct a public hearing on the plan at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
Related item: How much will you pay?
At issue is who pays for the ornamental streetlights scattered across downtown and in several neighborhoods. The special lights cost more than $1.9 million a year.
Why are they so expensive?
Instead of buying the lights, in most cases Syracuse leases them from National Grid. In addition to electricity to power the lights, the utility charges an annual lease payment - technically, a "facility charge" - that is based on the cost of replacing each element of the streetlight.
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Star Trek Star Shot Two Snipers on D-Day and Was Shot Seven Times in WWII (warhistoryonline.com)
Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children of William and Sarah Doohan, who emigrated from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.His father was a pharmacist, veterinarian, and dentist; his mother was a homemaker. Doohan’s father reportedly invented an early form of high-octane gasoline in 1923. Doohan’s 1996 autobiography recounted his father’s serious alcoholism. The family moved to Sarnia, Ontario, and Doohan attended high school at the Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School (SCITS), where he excelled in mathematics and science. He enrolled in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in 1938.
Military service
At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Doohan went to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night.
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Eastern York Grad/SU Fan Continues to Improve After Battle with Leukemia (yorkdispatch.com; Strohecker)
The great thing about sports is that they can often give you some relief from the harsh realities that every day life can bring.
Whether it's engulfing yourself in an event on television for a couple hours or playing a pick-up game with friends in the park, athletics can help you escape many problems.
Such was the case for Brandon Hohenadel, when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in December 2012 as a senior at Eastern York High School. In between chemotherapy sessions and his bone marrow transplant last spring, Brandon's outlet was basketball, a sport he played up through his freshman year at Eastern.
While he was still too frail to play the sport, he watched it on television, following two of his favorite teams, Villanova and Syracuse. When he finally worked up the strength to begin exercising again, the basketball court served as his gym.
It was there that he got back to, not only living a much more typical life, but back to his normal strength. He regained his strength and stamina to the point where playing pick-up games with his friends hardly affected him anymore.
"At first, I'd get really winded pretty quick and I wasn't able to do very much," he said. "I didn't really have any leg strength and I'd get fatigued really easily. But now I can do pretty much what I always could before — jump and run like I used to. So my conditioning is pretty good now. Back to normal."
Brandon even had the opportunity to go up to Syracuse this past December and got to meet the men's basketball team before one of its practices and then sit court side at the Dec. 22 game against Colgate.
But that was all information that he revealed when The York Dispatch first did a story on his condition last year.
Since then, his condition has only improved. The Eastern York grad has been in remission now for more than a year and just a year removed from his transplant, both of which are giant milestones in his path to recovery.
...
Other
Why a Syracuse Streetlight Costs Over $1500 Per Year (PS; Knauss)
The Salvation Army office in Syracuse pays $146 a year for ornamental streetlights in its downtown neighborhood. Now the bill could go up to $3,997.
The cost of fancy streetlights
Here's a breakdown of the annual charges for an ornamental streetlight on North Salina Street in Syracuse. National Grid owns each component except the pole, which is owned by the city. On some lights, the city also owns the concrete base.
Source: City of Syracuse
The nonprofit agency is one of roughly 2,900 homes and businesses affected by a massive reboot ofspecial lighting districts under discussion at city hall. The Common Council will conduct a public hearing on the plan at 5:30 p.m. Monday.
Related item: How much will you pay?
At issue is who pays for the ornamental streetlights scattered across downtown and in several neighborhoods. The special lights cost more than $1.9 million a year.
Why are they so expensive?
Instead of buying the lights, in most cases Syracuse leases them from National Grid. In addition to electricity to power the lights, the utility charges an annual lease payment - technically, a "facility charge" - that is based on the cost of replacing each element of the streetlight.
...
Star Trek Star Shot Two Snipers on D-Day and Was Shot Seven Times in WWII (warhistoryonline.com)
Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children of William and Sarah Doohan, who emigrated from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.His father was a pharmacist, veterinarian, and dentist; his mother was a homemaker. Doohan’s father reportedly invented an early form of high-octane gasoline in 1923. Doohan’s 1996 autobiography recounted his father’s serious alcoholism. The family moved to Sarnia, Ontario, and Doohan attended high school at the Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School (SCITS), where he excelled in mathematics and science. He enrolled in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in 1938.
Military service
At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the 13th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Doohan went to England in 1940 for training. His first combat was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night.
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