Shopping bag reusability hierarchy

Reduce, re-use, and recycle. But watch out when it comes to reusing shopping bags to carry your pumps while you commute to work in your New Balance sneakers. It’s important to coordinate. Not every bag goes well with your North Face jacket. Here are a few different sorts of bags, listed from lowest to highest level of yuppie acceptability:

Wal-Mart: Never acceptable. Why were you shopping at Wal-Mart to begin with? Why were you even in that part of town? I would put Sears in this category as well, if only because their bags are butt-ugly. Black bags from the liquor store and take-out bags with smiley faces should also never be reused.

Jewel/other thin grocery style bag: Only as a last resort. Trashy, and shows you don’t give a shit about the environment, because you clearly forgot your canvas bags at home last shopping trip.

Aldi: Still pretty trashy, but not as much, ’cause these are thick and durable. Shows that you’re cheap, since you shop at Aldi, but that’s kinda in fashion, so it’s passable.

Target: Your bag must at least meet the Target standard in in order to avoid cut eye.

Mall store: The more expensive the store, the more reusable the bag, except that paper beats plastic almost every time (fancy plastic shit like you’d get at Urban Outfitters can occasionally beat paper).

Major department store: Unless it’s from Macy’s, you’re all good. If it’s from Macy’s, you will lose points from the sort of dipshits that whine about the loss of Marshall Field’s, so carry with caution.

Trader Joe’s/Whole Foods: Hipster status symbol. Most rush-hour commuters will approve muchly. You may not care about the environment, but you care about looking like you do, and that’s good enough for credit.

Designer boutique: Clearly, you have a lot of money. Use this bag until it falls apart.

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  3. Having seized home-ice advantage by splitting the first two games of their Western Conference Stanley Cup playoff semifinal in Vancouver, the Blackhawks were counting on the ear-splitting support of their home crowd to help them take control of the series as it resumed at the United Center on Tuesday night.

    But it was going to take more than crowd noise. The Canucks led 3-1 after two periods, on Mason Raymond’s goal in the first period and second-period scores by Steve Bernier and Henrik Sedin.

    Brian Campbell scored the Blackhawks’ lone goal in the second.

    The shots on goal were even at 14 apiece, but most of the action was in the Hawks’ end as Vancouver appeared to be the sharper, faster team.

    Related links
    Hear the Hawks game, live on WGN-AM
    Blackhawk-Canucks game log
    NHL playoffs: Blackhawks vs. Canucks Photos
    Hawks’ Toews says shoulder’s fine
    Blackhawks’ speed burns opponents
    Luongo: We could all play better
    Blackhawks set for Game 3 The second period opened with the Canucks on the power play, Patrick Kane having gone off for hooking late in the first. They needed just a minute to score when Bernier poked a rebound of Henrik Sedin’s slap shot past Nikolai Khabibulin for a 2-0 lead at 1:00.

    The lead grew to 3-0 roughly seven minutes later during a four-on-four that featured some of the most wide open skating of the series. The Sedin brothers got loose in front of Khabibulin, and Henrik’s rebound of Daniel’s shot trickled through the goaltender’s pads and across the line at 8:40.

    But sizable deficits have been nothing new for the Hawks in this series, and they responded on the power play with Campbell’s blast that slipped past Roberto Luongo as Dustin Byfuglien screened him at 11:09.

    Raymond opened the scoring at 15:34 of the first, after Vancouver survived a Hawks power play. Kevin Bieksa pried the puck away from Ben Eager in the Hawks’ end and slipped it to Ryan Kessler, who found Raymond wide open to Khabibulin’s right. Raymond ripped a shot that found the net over Khabibulin’s left shoulder for a 1-0 Vancouver lead.

    The hitting was heavy at both ends through both periods.

    The United Center had been hockey-less since April 25, when a three-goal first period staked the Hawks to a 5-1 victory over Calgary in Game 5 of their first-round series. They finished off the Flames in Calgary two nights later and moved on to face the Canucks, who had advanced with a first-round sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

    The red-clad crowd of 22,659 was ready to its part, at its seats and clearly revved up long before Jim Cornelison’s exuberant rendition of the national anthems. From the ovation that greeted Hawks legend Bobby Hull, it seemed he was going to skate a few shifts rather than drop the ceremonial first puck.

    In Vancouver, the Hawks sort of shrugged off the old adage about not fixing something that ain’t broke. After relying on their younger, fresher legs to skate rings around the plodding Flames, they have adopted a more physical approach to dealing with the Canucks, sending big-bodied Byfuglien and others directly at Luongo in an effort to harass and unsettle the man acknowledged to be the world’s best goaltender.

    Byfuglien has been a constant and distracting presence on Luongo’s doorstep, and try as they might the Canucks have been unable to dislodge him.

    There’s no arguing with the results from the Hawks’ vantage point — they scored nine goals in the two games at Vancouver, eight of them on Luongo’s watch.

    The Canucks, mindful of the fact that Luongo is their meal ticket, took exception to those tactics and were a chippy bunch in Game 2, penalized 14 times for 52 minutes, including three misconducts.

    The Hawks, as they had done against the cranky, irritable Flames, stood their ground and retaliated only when necessary, drawing 13 penalties worth 50 minutes. Traditional non-combatants such as Havlat and Jonathan Toews found themselves being belabored as the final seconds ticked away, suggesting the Canucks intended to keep up the rough stuff, with more minutes for tough guy Bieksa as the series shifted cities.

    Sure enough, Bieksa instigated some vigorous after-the-whistle jostling with Andrew Ladd and Havlat on successive first-period shifts, but no punches were thrown and no penalties called.

    Coach Joel Quenneville insisted the Hawks would not be distracted or goaded into anything silly. He said they would remain focused on the task at hand, concentrate on each game as it came up and continue to see where this improbable season takes them.

    So far there has been no faulting that approach, even if it did change course bit.

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  4. Having seized home-ice advantage by splitting the first two games of their Western Conference Stanley Cup playoff semifinal in Vancouver, the Blackhawks were counting on the ear-splitting support of their home crowd to help them take control of the series as it resumed at the United Center on Tuesday night.

    But it was going to take more than crowd noise. The Canucks led 3-1 after two periods, on Mason Raymond’s goal in the first period and second-period scores by Steve Bernier and Henrik Sedin.

    Brian Campbell scored the Blackhawks’ lone goal in the second.

    The shots on goal were even at 14 apiece, but most of the action was in the Hawks’ end as Vancouver appeared to be the sharper, faster team.

    Related links
    Hear the Hawks game, live on WGN-AM
    Blackhawk-Canucks game log
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    Blackhawks set for Game 3 The second period opened with the Canucks on the power play, Patrick Kane having gone off for hooking late in the first. They needed just a minute to score when Bernier poked a rebound of Henrik Sedin’s slap shot past Nikolai Khabibulin for a 2-0 lead at 1:00.

    The lead grew to 3-0 roughly seven minutes later during a four-on-four that featured some of the most wide open skating of the series. The Sedin brothers got loose in front of Khabibulin, and Henrik’s rebound of Daniel’s shot trickled through the goaltender’s pads and across the line at 8:40.

    But sizable deficits have been nothing new for the Hawks in this series, and they responded on the power play with Campbell’s blast that slipped past Roberto Luongo as Dustin Byfuglien screened him at 11:09.

    Raymond opened the scoring at 15:34 of the first, after Vancouver survived a Hawks power play. Kevin Bieksa pried the puck away from Ben Eager in the Hawks’ end and slipped it to Ryan Kessler, who found Raymond wide open to Khabibulin’s right. Raymond ripped a shot that found the net over Khabibulin’s left shoulder for a 1-0 Vancouver lead.

    The hitting was heavy at both ends through both periods.

    The United Center had been hockey-less since April 25, when a three-goal first period staked the Hawks to a 5-1 victory over Calgary in Game 5 of their first-round series. They finished off the Flames in Calgary two nights later and moved on to face the Canucks, who had advanced with a first-round sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

    The red-clad crowd of 22,659 was ready to its part, at its seats and clearly revved up long before Jim Cornelison’s exuberant rendition of the national anthems. From the ovation that greeted Hawks legend Bobby Hull, it seemed he was going to skate a few shifts rather than drop the ceremonial first puck.

    In Vancouver, the Hawks sort of shrugged off the old adage about not fixing something that ain’t broke. After relying on their younger, fresher legs to skate rings around the plodding Flames, they have adopted a more physical approach to dealing with the Canucks, sending big-bodied Byfuglien and others directly at Luongo in an effort to harass and unsettle the man acknowledged to be the world’s best goaltender.

    Byfuglien has been a constant and distracting presence on Luongo’s doorstep, and try as they might the Canucks have been unable to dislodge him.

    There’s no arguing with the results from the Hawks’ vantage point — they scored nine goals in the two games at Vancouver, eight of them on Luongo’s watch.

    The Canucks, mindful of the fact that Luongo is their meal ticket, took exception to those tactics and were a chippy bunch in Game 2, penalized 14 times for 52 minutes, including three misconducts.

    The Hawks, as they had done against the cranky, irritable Flames, stood their ground and retaliated only when necessary, drawing 13 penalties worth 50 minutes. Traditional non-combatants such as Havlat and Jonathan Toews found themselves being belabored as the final seconds ticked away, suggesting the Canucks intended to keep up the rough stuff, with more minutes for tough guy Bieksa as the series shifted cities.

    Sure enough, Bieksa instigated some vigorous after-the-whistle jostling with Andrew Ladd and Havlat on successive first-period shifts, but no punches were thrown and no penalties called.

    Coach Joel Quenneville insisted the Hawks would not be distracted or goaded into anything silly. He said they would remain focused on the task at hand, concentrate on each game as it came up and continue to see where this improbable season takes them.

    So far there has been no faulting that approach, even if it did change course bit.

    [email protected]

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  5. Having seized home-ice advantage by splitting the first two games of their Western Conference Stanley Cup playoff semifinal in Vancouver, the Blackhawks were counting on the ear-splitting support of their home crowd to help them take control of the series as it resumed at the United Center on Tuesday night.

    But it was going to take more than crowd noise. The Canucks led 3-1 after two periods, on Mason Raymond’s goal in the first period and second-period scores by Steve Bernier and Henrik Sedin.

    Brian Campbell scored the Blackhawks’ lone goal in the second.

    The shots on goal were even at 14 apiece, but most of the action was in the Hawks’ end as Vancouver appeared to be the sharper, faster team.

    Related links
    Hear the Hawks game, live on WGN-AM
    Blackhawk-Canucks game log
    NHL playoffs: Blackhawks vs. Canucks Photos
    Hawks’ Toews says shoulder’s fine
    Blackhawks’ speed burns opponents
    Luongo: We could all play better
    Blackhawks set for Game 3 The second period opened with the Canucks on the power play, Patrick Kane having gone off for hooking late in the first. They needed just a minute to score when Bernier poked a rebound of Henrik Sedin’s slap shot past Nikolai Khabibulin for a 2-0 lead at 1:00.

    The lead grew to 3-0 roughly seven minutes later during a four-on-four that featured some of the most wide open skating of the series. The Sedin brothers got loose in front of Khabibulin, and Henrik’s rebound of Daniel’s shot trickled through the goaltender’s pads and across the line at 8:40.

    But sizable deficits have been nothing new for the Hawks in this series, and they responded on the power play with Campbell’s blast that slipped past Roberto Luongo as Dustin Byfuglien screened him at 11:09.

    Raymond opened the scoring at 15:34 of the first, after Vancouver survived a Hawks power play. Kevin Bieksa pried the puck away from Ben Eager in the Hawks’ end and slipped it to Ryan Kessler, who found Raymond wide open to Khabibulin’s right. Raymond ripped a shot that found the net over Khabibulin’s left shoulder for a 1-0 Vancouver lead.

    The hitting was heavy at both ends through both periods.

    The United Center had been hockey-less since April 25, when a three-goal first period staked the Hawks to a 5-1 victory over Calgary in Game 5 of their first-round series. They finished off the Flames in Calgary two nights later and moved on to face the Canucks, who had advanced with a first-round sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

    The red-clad crowd of 22,659 was ready to its part, at its seats and clearly revved up long before Jim Cornelison’s exuberant rendition of the national anthems. From the ovation that greeted Hawks legend Bobby Hull, it seemed he was going to skate a few shifts rather than drop the ceremonial first puck.

    In Vancouver, the Hawks sort of shrugged off the old adage about not fixing something that ain’t broke. After relying on their younger, fresher legs to skate rings around the plodding Flames, they have adopted a more physical approach to dealing with the Canucks, sending big-bodied Byfuglien and others directly at Luongo in an effort to harass and unsettle the man acknowledged to be the world’s best goaltender.

    Byfuglien has been a constant and distracting presence on Luongo’s doorstep, and try as they might the Canucks have been unable to dislodge him.

    There’s no arguing with the results from the Hawks’ vantage point — they scored nine goals in the two games at Vancouver, eight of them on Luongo’s watch.

    The Canucks, mindful of the fact that Luongo is their meal ticket, took exception to those tactics and were a chippy bunch in Game 2, penalized 14 times for 52 minutes, including three misconducts.

    The Hawks, as they had done against the cranky, irritable Flames, stood their ground and retaliated only when necessary, drawing 13 penalties worth 50 minutes. Traditional non-combatants such as Havlat and Jonathan Toews found themselves being belabored as the final seconds ticked away, suggesting the Canucks intended to keep up the rough stuff, with more minutes for tough guy Bieksa as the series shifted cities.

    Sure enough, Bieksa instigated some vigorous after-the-whistle jostling with Andrew Ladd and Havlat on successive first-period shifts, but no punches were thrown and no penalties called.

    Coach Joel Quenneville insisted the Hawks would not be distracted or goaded into anything silly. He said they would remain focused on the task at hand, concentrate on each game as it came up and continue to see where this improbable season takes them.

    So far there has been no faulting that approach, even if it did change course b

  6. Having seized home-ice advantage by splitting the first two games of their Western Conference Stanley Cup playoff semifinal in Vancouver, the Blackhawks were counting on the ear-splitting support of their home crowd to help them take control of the series as it resumed at the United Center on Tuesday night.

    But it was going to take more than crowd noise. The Canucks led 3-1 after two periods, on Mason Raymond’s goal in the first period and second-period scores by Steve Bernier and Henrik Sedin.

    Brian Campbell scored the Blackhawks’ lone goal in the second.

    The shots on goal were even at 14 apiece, but most of the action was in the Hawks’ end as Vancouver appeared to be the sharper, faster team.

    Related links
    Hear the Hawks game, live on WGN-AM
    Blackhawk-Canucks game log
    NHL playoffs: Blackhawks vs. Canucks Photos
    Hawks’ Toews says shoulder’s fine
    Blackhawks’ speed burns opponents
    Luongo: We could all play better
    Blackhawks set for Game 3 The second period opened with the Canucks on the power play, Patrick Kane having gone off for hooking late in the first. They needed just a minute to score when Bernier poked a rebound of Henrik Sedin’s slap shot past Nikolai Khabibulin for a 2-0 lead at 1:00.

    The lead grew to 3-0 roughly seven minutes later during a four-on-four that featured some of the most wide open skating of the series. The Sedin brothers got loose in front of Khabibulin, and Henrik’s rebound of Daniel’s shot trickled through the goaltender’s pads and across the line at 8:40.

    But sizable deficits have been nothing new for the Hawks in this series, and they responded on the power play with Campbell’s blast that slipped past Roberto Luongo as Dustin Byfuglien screened him at 11:09.

    Raymond opened the scoring at 15:34 of the first, after Vancouver survived a Hawks power play. Kevin Bieksa pried the puck away from Ben Eager in the Hawks’ end and slipped it to Ryan Kessler, who found Raymond wide open to Khabibulin’s right. Raymond ripped a shot that found the net over Khabibulin’s left shoulder for a 1-0 Vancouver lead.

    The hitting was heavy at both ends through both periods.

    The United Center had been hockey-less since April 25, when a three-goal first period staked the Hawks to a 5-1 victory over Calgary in Game 5 of their first-round series. They finished off the Flames in Calgary two nights later and moved on to face the Canucks, who had advanced with a first-round sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

    The red-clad crowd of 22,659 was ready to its part, at its seats and clearly revved up long before Jim Cornelison’s exuberant rendition of the national anthems. From the ovation that greeted Hawks legend Bobby Hull, it seemed he was going to skate a few shifts rather than drop the ceremonial first puck.

    In Vancouver, the Hawks sort of shrugged off the old adage about not fixing something that ain’t broke. After relying on their younger, fresher legs to skate rings around the plodding Flames, they have adopted a more physical approach to dealing with the Canucks, sending big-bodied Byfuglien and others directly at Luongo in an effort to harass and unsettle the man acknowledged to be the world’s best goaltender.

    Byfuglien has been a constant and distracting presence on Luongo’s doorstep, and try as they might the Canucks have been unable to dislodge him.

    There’s no arguing with the results from the Hawks’ vantage point — they scored nine goals in the two games at Vancouver, eight of them on Luongo’s watch.

    The Canucks, mindful of the fact that Luongo is their meal ticket, took exception to those tactics and were a chippy bunch in Game 2, penalized 14 times for 52 minutes, including three misconducts.

    The Hawks, as they had done against the cranky, irritable Flames, stood their ground and retaliated only when necessary, drawing 13 penalties worth 50 minutes. Traditional non-combatants such as Havlat and Jonathan Toews found themselves being belabored as the final seconds ticked away, suggesting the Canucks intended to keep up the rough stuff, with more minutes for tough guy Bieksa as the series shifted cities.

    Sure enough, Bieksa instigated some vigorous after-the-whistle jostling with Andrew Ladd and Havlat on successive first-period shifts, but no punches were thrown and no penalties called.

    Coach Joel Quenneville insisted the Hawks would not be distracted or goaded into anything silly. He said they would remain focused on the task at hand, concentrate on each game as it came up and continue to see where this improbable season takes them.

    So far there has been no faulting that approach, even if it did change course b

  7. Why do you continue to post such inane and pointless comments on UU? You don’t care about the ‘hood so STFU.

    When you are asleep the snatch monkey plays!

  8. Why do you continue to post such inane and pointless comments on UU? You don’t care about the ‘hood so STFU.

    When you are asleep the snatch monkey plays!

  9. I’m also not sure why you would continue to reply to this post, considering it has nothing to do with any of your blather. I *do* have an e-mail address. Hell, there are two of them listed at the top of my right sidebar. Get a fucking life, bitter busybody.

  10. I’m also not sure why you would continue to reply to this post, considering it has nothing to do with any of your blather. I *do* have an e-mail address. Hell, there are two of them listed at the top of my right sidebar. Get a fucking life, bitter busybody.

  11. NEW YORK – Maintenance workers scrubbed desks and door handles today in a flu swine outbreak that shut down three New York City public schools and left an assistant principal hospitalized in critical condition on a breathing tube.

    Education Department spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said maintenance crews were thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting two middle schools and one elementary school in Queens where hundreds of students were sent home sick this week.

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the school closures Thursday evening, saying four students and the assistant principal at the Susan B. Anthony middle school in Hollis have documented cases of swine flu.

    The mayor said the assistant principal, Mitch Wiener, may have had pre-existing health problems — but on Friday, Wiener’s son Adam said his father had only suffered previously from gout, which he said was unrelated to his current condition. He said his father is now suffering from kidney failure, dehydration and a lung infection.

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    Officials debate production of H1N1 vaccine “I don’t know where people got that,” Adam Wiener, 23, said Friday morning as he prepared to return to the hospital where his mother and one brother were holding a vigil.

    “The only pre-existing condition he has is gout, which is unrelated to complications he’s experienced now.”

    Adam Wiener said his father had been sick since at least last weekend with flu-like symptoms “but we didn’t think anything of it.” Then early Wednesday, he said, the family called 911 after his father began “hallucinating and wasn’t coherent.”

    Wiener’s case marks the most severe illness in the city since the city’s first known cases of swine flu appeared in late April. At least five schools in the city were closed then, but all have since reopened. Officials say the students who have fallen ill in this latest surge of illness appear to be experiencing mild symptoms, similar to routine flu.

    Bloomberg said the three schools — with more than 4,000 students altogether — would be closed for at least a week because “there are an unusually high level of flulike illnesses at those schools.”

    “There are documented cases of H1N1 flu at one of them,” the mayor said, using the formal name for swine flu.

    New York City’s first outbreak occurred when hundreds of teenagers at a Roman Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico, where the outbreak began.

    At first, the virus appeared to be moving at breakneck speed. An estimated 1,000 students, their relatives and staff at the St. Francis Preparatory School fell ill in a matter of days.

    But the outbreak then seemed to subside. Additional sporadic cases continued to be diagnosed, but the symptoms were nearly all mild. The sick children recovered in short order and St. Francis reopened after being closed for a week.

    The middle school with the confirmed cases is two miles from St. Francis.

    People at the Susan B. Anthony school said students started going home sick on Tuesday and Wednesday, alarming parents.

    “I’m worried,” said Dino Dilchande, whose sixth-grade son goes to the school. “The city should have taken more precautions. We should have been notified earlier.”

    Administrators posted a sign on the door from the Health Department informing students and teachers that the school would be closed for a week. The school is in the Hollis section of Queens, a neighborhood known for producing several rappers including the group Run-DMC.

    At the start of the flu outbreak in the United States, government health officials recommended that schools shut down for two weeks if there were students with swine flu. But when the virus turned out to be milder than initially feared, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped that advice but urged parents to keep children with flu symptoms home for a week.

    So far, the virus has not proved to be more infectious or deadly than the seasonal flu.

    CDC officials said schools may decide to close if there is a cluster that’s affecting attendance and staffing.

    Adam Wiener said his father has been mostly unconscious because of sedation since Wednesday evening, breathing with the help of a ventilator.

    One of Wiener’s 18-year-old twin sons, Jordan, said his father had been awake briefly and asked him about his leg, which he had injured playing baseball.

    “He’s always about his kids first,” Jordan Wiener said Friday. “He was asking me how I was feeling and how my season’s going.”

  12. NEW YORK – Maintenance workers scrubbed desks and door handles today in a flu swine outbreak that shut down three New York City public schools and left an assistant principal hospitalized in critical condition on a breathing tube.

    Education Department spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said maintenance crews were thoroughly cleaning and disinfecting two middle schools and one elementary school in Queens where hundreds of students were sent home sick this week.

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the school closures Thursday evening, saying four students and the assistant principal at the Susan B. Anthony middle school in Hollis have documented cases of swine flu.

    The mayor said the assistant principal, Mitch Wiener, may have had pre-existing health problems — but on Friday, Wiener’s son Adam said his father had only suffered previously from gout, which he said was unrelated to his current condition. He said his father is now suffering from kidney failure, dehydration and a lung infection.

    Related links
    About the swine flu Multimedia
    Full coverage on the swine flu
    Swine flu 101: What it is, how to prevent it
    Face masks not a sure bet against flu
    Interactive map: Swine flu’s spread
    How Relenza, Tamiflu fight influenza
    Flu batters restaurants in Mexico
    Photos: Swine flu causes global concern
    Photos: The swine flu scare of 1976

    NYC closing schools to deal with big flu outbreak
    Some schools and businesses reopen in Mexico
    Do Heidi and Seal think the swine flu epidemic is hilarious?
    Officials debate production of H1N1 vaccine “I don’t know where people got that,” Adam Wiener, 23, said Friday morning as he prepared to return to the hospital where his mother and one brother were holding a vigil.

    “The only pre-existing condition he has is gout, which is unrelated to complications he’s experienced now.”

    Adam Wiener said his father had been sick since at least last weekend with flu-like symptoms “but we didn’t think anything of it.” Then early Wednesday, he said, the family called 911 after his father began “hallucinating and wasn’t coherent.”

    Wiener’s case marks the most severe illness in the city since the city’s first known cases of swine flu appeared in late April. At least five schools in the city were closed then, but all have since reopened. Officials say the students who have fallen ill in this latest surge of illness appear to be experiencing mild symptoms, similar to routine flu.

    Bloomberg said the three schools — with more than 4,000 students altogether — would be closed for at least a week because “there are an unusually high level of flulike illnesses at those schools.”

    “There are documented cases of H1N1 flu at one of them,” the mayor said, using the formal name for swine flu.

    New York City’s first outbreak occurred when hundreds of teenagers at a Roman Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico, where the outbreak began.

    At first, the virus appeared to be moving at breakneck speed. An estimated 1,000 students, their relatives and staff at the St. Francis Preparatory School fell ill in a matter of days.

    But the outbreak then seemed to subside. Additional sporadic cases continued to be diagnosed, but the symptoms were nearly all mild. The sick children recovered in short order and St. Francis reopened after being closed for a week.

    The middle school with the confirmed cases is two miles from St. Francis.

    People at the Susan B. Anthony school said students started going home sick on Tuesday and Wednesday, alarming parents.

    “I’m worried,” said Dino Dilchande, whose sixth-grade son goes to the school. “The city should have taken more precautions. We should have been notified earlier.”

    Administrators posted a sign on the door from the Health Department informing students and teachers that the school would be closed for a week. The school is in the Hollis section of Queens, a neighborhood known for producing several rappers including the group Run-DMC.

    At the start of the flu outbreak in the United States, government health officials recommended that schools shut down for two weeks if there were students with swine flu. But when the virus turned out to be milder than initially feared, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped that advice but urged parents to keep children with flu symptoms home for a week.

    So far, the virus has not proved to be more infectious or deadly than the seasonal flu.

    CDC officials said schools may decide to close if there is a cluster that’s affecting attendance and staffing.

    Adam Wiener said his father has been mostly unconscious because of sedation since Wednesday evening, breathing with the help of a ventilator.

    One of Wiener’s 18-year-old twin sons, Jordan, said his father had been awake briefly and asked him about his leg, which he had injured playing baseball.

    “He’s always about his kids first,” Jordan Wiener said Friday. “He was asking me how I was feeling and how my season’s going.”

  13. I’ll post comments wherever I damned well please. Seriously. What the fuck do you care. Just ignore them, if you don’t like them. Are you deranged? Why are you so obsessed with me. I mean, I’m flattered, and all…

  14. I’ll post comments wherever I damned well please. Seriously. What the fuck do you care. Just ignore them, if you don’t like them. Are you deranged? Why are you so obsessed with me. I mean, I’m flattered, and all…

  15. Why should I? I don’t care if you keep trolling, clearly. I could just ban your IP. Troll your heart out. I’m done with this, because I have better things to do, but feel free to waste as much of your time as you like.

  16. Why should I? I don’t care if you keep trolling, clearly. I could just ban your IP. Troll your heart out. I’m done with this, because I have better things to do, but feel free to waste as much of your time as you like.

  17. Two people were killed and another seriously hurt in a two-car accident that forced closure of a portion of rain-slickened North Lake Shore Drive early this morning, officials said.

    The crash happened at about 3 a.m. and involved a 1998 BMW sedan and a 2004 Chrysler Crossfire hatchback traveling at a “high rate of speed,” said Chicago Police Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti.

    The cars lost control and collided with each other, Ursitti said. There was a driver with a passenger in the BMW and the just a driver in the Chrysler.

    The passenger — identified as Nicholas Shaner, 20, of the 400 block of North Sacramento Avenue — was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

    The driver of the of the Chrysler — Brett Goldstandt, 21, of the 1300 block of North Hoyne Avenue — died at 2:39 p.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The BMW’s driver was taken to Illinois Masonic in serious-to-critical condition after the crash, fire officials said.

    The police major accident investigation unit is investigating the crash.

  18. Two people were killed and another seriously hurt in a two-car accident that forced closure of a portion of rain-slickened North Lake Shore Drive early this morning, officials said.

    The crash happened at about 3 a.m. and involved a 1998 BMW sedan and a 2004 Chrysler Crossfire hatchback traveling at a “high rate of speed,” said Chicago Police Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti.

    The cars lost control and collided with each other, Ursitti said. There was a driver with a passenger in the BMW and the just a driver in the Chrysler.

    The passenger — identified as Nicholas Shaner, 20, of the 400 block of North Sacramento Avenue — was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

    The driver of the of the Chrysler — Brett Goldstandt, 21, of the 1300 block of North Hoyne Avenue — died at 2:39 p.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The BMW’s driver was taken to Illinois Masonic in serious-to-critical condition after the crash, fire officials said.

    The police major accident investigation unit is investigating the crash.

  19. You’ll notice that was written more than a month ago. I’ve been busy. Right now, better thing to do = working at my job, making money.

    But are you 100% serious all the time? That’s a shame.

    I’m still waiting for you to tell me why what I do with my time matters to you so much in the first place. Don’t *you* have better things to do?

    *yawn*

  20. P.S. you still don’t seem to have located my e-mail address. Scroll up. Are you slow, or what?

  21. You’ll notice that was written more than a month ago. I’ve been busy. Right now, better thing to do = working at my job, making money.

    But are you 100% serious all the time? That’s a shame.

    I’m still waiting for you to tell me why what I do with my time matters to you so much in the first place. Don’t *you* have better things to do?

    *yawn*

  22. P.S. you still don’t seem to have located my e-mail address. Scroll up. Are you slow, or what?

  23. my girlfriend prefers to fasten me up with an abetta & gunderson canvas saddle bag: made of heavy duty canvas, leather enforced grommets to connect to the saddle, with rain flaps over the bag secured to two 1″ quick release buckles. (anything leftover she can’t fit, she just stuffs in her shirt.)

  24. my girlfriend prefers to fasten me up with an abetta & gunderson canvas saddle bag: made of heavy duty canvas, leather enforced grommets to connect to the saddle, with rain flaps over the bag secured to two 1″ quick release buckles. (anything leftover she can’t fit, she just stuffs in her shirt.)

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