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KinderCare Learning Center (Cooper Lake #167)

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Computer Kids – Houston TX Licensed Center – Child Care Program

Description: As an early childhood environment we set the stage for the type of learning that will take place within the classroom. It’s where the main activities of the day happen, such as playing, eating, sleeping, and washing hands. We go beyond these basic activities to provide a high quality environment for young children that supports a program’s philosophy and curriculum. We believe that by focusing on specific elements within the classroom environment will support curriculum and therefore help foster children’s learning.

Additional Information: Has Drop In Care; Has School Age Summer Care; Has Drop In Care; Has School Age Summer Care; Financial Info: Multi-Child Discount;

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• License Number:
  CCLC-53592
• Capacity:
  169
• Age Range:
  Infant (0 -12 months), Toddler (13 months – 2 years), Preschool (3 years – 4 years), Georgia’s Pre-K (4 Years), School Age (5+)
• Achievement and/or Accreditations
  QualityRated_Participant; NAEYC
• Quality Rated Star:
  1
• Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
  Yes
• Type of Care:
  Before-school Program|After-school Program|Summer Camp|Georgia’s Pre-K; Full Time|Part Time
• Transportation:
  To/From School

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AMA Supercross: An Unusual Development in Salt Lake City

As predicted before the start of the penultimate AMA Supercross event in Salt Lake City, the track created at Rice-Eccles Stadium appealed to reigning 450SX champion Eli Tomac of Kawasaki. But another won the decisive race.

MOTOR RACE, April 25, 2021 – Eli Tomac first found the key to speeding through the short stadium track built on Thursday at Rice-Eccles Stadium, where he became world champion a year ago. The design of the track turned out, as they say, “convenient for Tomac – he likes that.” Indeed, Eli completed the best lap in Q1 in 46.980. The second qualifying was already slower at 47.123 and Tomac admitted he made a couple of mistakes in this session.

Eli Tomac dominated the qualifiers and won his qualifying heat cleanly

However, he was objectively the fastest, which he proved in the second qualifying bout. Tomac won the heat against Malcolm Stewart and Ken Roczen. In this race, the Team HRC pilot lost 8 seconds on 8 laps to both leaders, which is not typical for Roczen. But in Salt Lake City, the German always had problems… with stamina due to heavy breathing.

The second part of the battle was in Heat 1 – and again, between Chase Sexton and Cooper Webb. This time, Webb easily drove away from Sexton and finished 1st. Rounding out the top 5 in the heat was Marvin Musken, from whom no one expected any surprises in the decisive race… decisive race will start. Here it is important to be in the right position on the first lap, so entering the 1st turn is so important. Malcolm did what I did, so he followed me the whole race and had a good chance of catching me as I made a couple of small mistakes. I will try to speed up in the decisive battle.

But at the decisive moment, as usual, everything went wrong and turned upside down.

Ken Roczen wins AMA Supercross Stage 16 start

Ken Roczen had a brilliant start from the inside and easily won the Holeshot, taking the lead after the first corner. Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Marvin Musken also got off to a great start, clearing the inside lane and getting on the Honda wheel. Third behind Webb was Joy Savagey, a private KTM team driver. But Savadzhi could not stand the pace imposed by the leaders of the championship and soon made a mistake, fell and let 10 opponents go ahead at once. Savage’s place was immediately taken by Anderson.

Roczen’s main rival in the championship – Cooper Webb, this time got lost in the crowd before the 1st turn, and when he escaped, he pursued Anderson for a long time. Seeing the situation, Roczen went to the lead. He tried to pick up speed and get away from the KTM: he did not see which one from the factory rival team was hanging on his wheel.

Marvin Musken on his way to victory in Salt Lake City

Musken pursued 14 laps in a row…

Justin Barsha also failed to take part in the fight, making the same mistake as Savadzhi, but in a different turn : GasGas pilot slipped and missed the bike, immediately being the last in the field. Barsha got to the finish line 14th, ahead of nine rivals during the race.

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Eli Tomac dropped out of the fight for the podium on the first lap

Things didn’t work out for Tomac either. He lost the start and ended up in the thick of the rivals before the first corner, made a mistake, slipped – and immediately found himself 9-m on the first lap, which determined the course of the entire race for him. A short stadium lap, a technical design of the track – this affected the imminent appearance of laps (already on the 8th lap !!!), and they really prevented Eli from moving forward. At the finish line, Tomac was only 10th, having missed every opportunity to improve the situation.

Meanwhile, at the head of the field, the pursuit of Roczen continued. Webb had to fight two duels before to gain admission to the leaders. 4-5 laps he butted with Malcolk Stewart (with varying success), but in the end he passed the Yamaha pilot and immediately caught up with Anderson. Husqvarna managed to get through quite easily – on the 12th lap, Anderson was already exhausted. Webb, on the other hand, clearly got a second wind – the championship leader finally began to catch up with his partner in the KTM factory team!

Roczen was able to get away from his pursuers by 3.5 seconds at first, but began to make small mistakes. All of them, in the end, added up to the advantage that Marvin Musken received – the KTM driver got close to Roczen on lap 14.

Ken Roczen makes a fatal mistake and falls

And on the same lap 14 everything changed in an instant! In the same turn, where at the beginning of the race he buried his nose in the ground Savagzhi, Roczen made the same mistake . .. Myusken instantly became the leader. While Roczen was lifting the bike, Cooper Webb also managed to pass by, as well as Stewart Jr., who followed him. Even Chase Sexton and Dylan Ferrandis, who were more than 10 seconds behind the leaders at the time, passed Roczen. Ken completely lost his breath and rhythm, as a result, and he could no longer catch up with his rivals. Circular – four people at once did not make the task easier. Roczen finished 6th, having lost all hope of making up for losses in the final two rounds of AMA Supercross…

Musken finishes 1st and looks back at Cooper Webb

Musken managed to get past his teammate and win the Salt Lake City race, but Cooper Webb finished 2nd in just 0.3 seconds, with Stewart rounding out the podium – and that’s the end of the story!

Webb managed to increase his lead over Roczen to 22 points with 23 available in the draw with one race to go. The game is done. Although no one can officially call Cooper the 2021 AMA Supercross Champion, he only needs to earn 2 points to celebrate his second 450SX title a week later on May 1st.

Cooper Webb was 1 point short of winning the 2021 championship by stoppage

AMA Supercross 450SX Championship position before the final:

1. Cooper Webb (KTM) – 362 points
2. Ken Roczen (Honda) – 340 (- 22)
3. Eli Tomac (Kawasaki) – 312 (-40)
4. Justin Barsha (GasGas) – 273
5. Aaron Plessinger (Yamaha) – 249
6. Jason Anderson (Husqvarna) – 236
7. Malcolm Stewart (Yamaha) – 230
…

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Sketch of Dan Cooper

Photo: AP

Sketch of Dan Cooper

Photo: AP

Magician with hat

November 24, 1971, Thanksgiving Eve in the USA. A middle-aged man walks up to the Northwest Orient Airlines check-in counter at the Portland, Oregon airport. White shirt, black tie with pearl barrette, dark suit and light black coat. Moccasins are on her feet, a hat is on her head, and sunglasses cover her face.

Business attire, good manners and courtesy – this is how the cashier and dozens of other people interviewed by the police and the FBI would later describe him.

An elegant man asked (and, of course, he was sold) a ticket for the next flight to Seattle, Washington, the business capital of the neighboring state, which is only about half an hour away. Buying for $ 20 a ticket for flight 305, he introduced himself as Dan Cooper. The next day, this name will be mentioned in newspapers, sounded on TV channels and on the radio around the world.

Northwest Orient Airlines hijacked

Photo: AP

Northwest Orient Airlines hijacked

Photo: AP

Dan Cooper, if that was his real name, waited to board and took his seat – 18C at the tail of the plane. In addition to him, there were 6 crew members and 35 passengers on board, despite the fact that the aircraft was designed for 94 seats. At 2:50 pm local time — right on schedule — the plane took off from Portland Airport.

A man in a suit lit a cigarette (then it was not forbidden) and ordered himself a glass of bourbon and soda. He looked completely relaxed.

When 23-year-old flight attendant Florence Schaffner brought him an order, he handed her a note. The girl decided that the man wanted to meet her, and the note contained a phone number or hotel address. Such attempts to make pleasant acquaintances with flight attendants were common at the time, and so Schaffner put the note in her pocket without reading it.

After a couple of minutes, Cooper again called Schaffner to him, motioned for her to approach him, and whispered in his ear, “Miss, you better read this. I have a bomb.” With these words, he pointed to his briefcase.

Schaffner opened the note: “I have a bomb in my briefcase. I use it when needed. Sit in front of me. Your plane has been hijacked.” The stewardess, not believing, asked to open the briefcase. Cooper did not object: when the briefcase opened, Schaffner saw eight red objects that looked like sticks of dynamite, as well as a lot of some kind of wires and light bulbs.

This is what bombs look like in the movies – for a girl, this sight was quite convincing.

In addition to the threat to blow up the plane, the note also contained Cooper’s demands: $200,000 in cash, and only in 20-dollar bills, four parachutes, and a tanker with jet fuel at the Seattle airport.

The girl gave all these demands to the pilots, who contacted the ground services. An operation began to fulfill all the requirements of the invader.

While the FBI was collecting $200,000 at $20 from all nearby banks in Seattle, the Northwest Orient Airlines plane continued to circle in the sky. The passengers had no idea that they were the hostages of a terrorist with a bomb, and Cooper himself continued to calmly drink bourbon and communicate with Florence Schaffner.

“He wasn’t nervous at all and looked friendly. He was not rude or cruel. Rather, he was calm and thoughtful all the time, ”the second stewardess Tina Macklow later recalled. Moreover, the hijacker honestly paid for the drunk bourbon and even left a tip for the flight attendants.

Finally, the special services collected the necessary amount and obtained parachutes, and the tanker was already at the airport. Boeing with Cooper on board began to decline. As soon as the plane landed, Cooper asked to turn off the lights in the cabin, as well as lower the window shades so that the authorities would not be tempted to use snipers.

Money and parachutes were handed over to Cooper by an airport employee through a door at the back of the plane. Returning to the cabin, the hijacker announced that all passengers, as well as flight attendants Florence Schaffner and Alice Hancock, could leave the liner. Now he had only crew members and stewardess Tina Macklow as hostages.

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Passengers released by Dan Cooper at Seattle Airport

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Northwest Orient Airlines flight attendant (right) was interrogated by an FBI agent immediately after flight

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Passengers released by Dan Cooper at Seattle Airport

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Northwest Orient Airlines flight attendant (right) was interrogated by an FBI agent immediately after the flight

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The refueling of the plane took a little longer, which made Cooper nervous for the first time. But the authorities did not dare to storm the plane with the hostages and let it take off.

Mexico City is the new destination. However, the pilots explained to Cooper that an aircraft designed for regional transportation simply would not be able to fly to the Mexican capital without another refueling. The man in the suit agreed.

The plane was supposed to land for the second time at Reno Airport (Nevada). The pilots immediately notified the ground services about this. And the FBI considered that it was there that it would be possible to finally capture the criminal. In the meantime, just in case, two F-106 fighters were raised into the air to escort Boeing.

Cooper ordered the pilots to fly the plane at a very low altitude – no higher than 3000 m. Civilian aircraft stopped flying that low back in the 1930s, when the cabin pressurization technology was invented. Modern civil aviation uses altitudes in the region of 10,000 meters to be above the clouds and avoid adverse weather conditions.

And the weather in Seattle that day was, as if evil, terrible: thunderstorm, downpour, squally wind. Therefore, none of the authorities seriously believed that Cooper would try to use the parachutes that he demanded.

But the polite hijacker turned out to be much bolder than his opponents thought. He asked the pilots to fly the plane at a speed of about 185 km / h – this is the minimum possible speed for the normal flight of the liner. And Tina Macklow ordered to go into the cockpit, close the door behind him and not peep.

20 minutes after the start of the flight, the indicator on the instrument panel showed that the door at the rear of the aircraft was open. And a couple of hours later, Boeing Northwest Orient Airlines landed safely at Reno Airport.

Neither Cooper, nor his briefcase, nor even the bourbon glass he drank from, was in the cabin.

The only thing he left as a memento for the investigators was a black tie with a pearl hair clip.

Cooper apparently jumped out of the plane and used a parachute. But even the fighter pilots did not notice how he left the board. No one has ever seen Dan Cooper again.

Dan Cooper hijacking press conference, 26 Nov 1971

Photo: AP

Dan Cooper hijacking press conference, November 26, 1971

Photo: AP

Wild Wild Air

and did not end with the capture of the criminal. Many tried to repeat Cooper’s success, some even almost completely copied his actions, except that they were not called Dan Cooper and did not ask for bourbon on ice. But all attempts turned into failure, and some hijackers cost both freedom and life.

Not a single terrorist with a bomb will be able to board an aircraft today. The airport security system provides for several stages of inspection and scanning of each passenger. But things were different in the 1960s.

Dan Cooper is not the first person to attempt to hijack a plane in the US. In fact, in those years it was almost a common thing for American civil aviation.

Between 1948 and 1957, there were only 15 aircraft hijackings worldwide. Between 1958 to 1967, 48 aircraft were already captured – again all over the world. But from 1968 to 1972, the number of hijackings exceeded 130 – and these are only American aircraft. At times, hijackings in the United States happened every week.

In 1968, during a Senate hearing, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Irving Ripp stated that it would be easy for intruders to hijack any aircraft:

“It is impossible to search every passenger. If you have a man on board who wants to go to Havana and he has a gun, that’s all he needs.

Then Florida Senator George Smathers proposed what seems to be the obvious solution today – to install metal detectors or X-ray machines at airports. Moreover, Ripp argued, such have already been successfully used in prisons and at specially protected facilities in the United States.

But the FAA spokesman thought the idea was crazy. “It will have a very bad effect on the psychological state of the passengers… It will scare people to death. In addition, people will begin to complain about the invasion of their privacy, ”Ripp said. This is where the debate about the need to scan passengers ended.

And after a couple of weeks, a senator from Mississippi was under the gun of another plane hijacker. The hijacker of the liner eventually surrendered, and the senator was not injured. But as soon as the talk turned to the threat to the lives of representatives of the authorities, those same authorities for the first time seriously thought that the problem had to be somehow solved.

There were a great many options on how to decide. One is more exotic than the other.

For example, the US Senate seriously considered the possibility of organizing free one-way flights to Havana. Most of the hijackers in those years were people who were dissatisfied with their position in the United States and believed that communism being built in Cuba was a guarantor of freedom and opportunity. But Fidel Castro, who, of course, was flattered by the desire of the Americans to flee to Liberty Island even by hijacking planes, did not accept the proposal of the senators.

While politicians were discussing measures against plane hijackers, airlines found a solution for themselves. They continued to be guided by the principle “the lives of passengers and crew are most precious” and adopted the rule – to comply with any requirements of the hijackers.

In case of an unscheduled trip to Cuba, all cabins were equipped with Caribbean Sea charts, regardless of the intended destination of the flight. The pilots were briefed on landing procedures at Jose Marti International Airport (Cuba) and given cards with phrases to help them communicate with the Hispanic hijackers. And controllers in Miami now have a dedicated phone line to communicate with their Cuban colleagues.

Of course, this approach only stimulated the intruders, and hijackings became more frequent: 11 hijackings in the first six weeks of 1969 – a record frequency.

Then the FAA decided to finally address the problem and created a special anti-theft unit. And it immediately began to receive thousands of letters from ordinary citizens who were tired of traveling with terrorists.

Caring citizens offered all sorts of things: install traps outside cockpits, arm flight attendants with tranquilizer darts, force passengers to wear boxing gloves so they couldn’t hold weapons, play the Cuban national anthem before takeoff, and then arrest anyone who knew text.

These proposals were not supported. But there was something that seriously interested: to build a mock-up copy of the Jose Marti Airport in an open field in South Florida. In this way, it was supposed to deceive all the hijackers who dreamed of escaping the country to Cuba: they would be brought to the airport, where the FBI would be waiting for the attackers instead of the Cuban authorities. The idea was discussed at the FAA for a long time, but in the end, the American authorities abandoned it as too expensive.

It wasn’t until 1971, after the masterful hijacking of Boeing Northwest Orient Airlines by Dan Cooper, that the US authorities agreed to implement the security measures in air transport that are now known to everyone. For the first time, airlines have been allowed to screen both passengers and their baggage.

And all Boeing 727 aircraft were equipped with a system to prevent the hatch in the tail section of the aircraft from opening during flight, just in case.

The measures taken allowed, albeit not immediately, to end the era of mass hijackings in the United States. So, in 1972, 31 attempts were made to hijack a plane (15 of them were Cooper’s followers who wanted to repeat his trick). And in 1973 there were only two such attempts – and both by mentally ill people. People in their right mind were now in no hurry to hijack planes in the United States.

Leap into the unknown

Immediately after the Boeing landed at Reno Airport, the FBI launched an investigation into the incident and the search for the perpetrator. A hijacker in a suit left behind 66 fingerprints on the plane. But none of them matched those in the FBI and police databases.

The DNA from the tie Cooper left on the plane when he left was to be compared with the DNA of the suspects. And there were hundreds of them: it could be any Dan Cooper 40-50 years old, or it’s possible that the hijacker simply came up with this name on the go or borrowed it from a comic book hero popular in Canada (which forced the investigation to take into account Canadian citizens as well).

The best place to start looking for Cooper was where he was supposed to land. The problem was that no one saw Cooper jump from the plane, and no one knew where he landed.

Using Boeing 727 flight data and taking into account the time the door opened, the FBI conducted an experiment by repeating the flight and dropping a 90-kilogram load from the back door. It was determined that Cooper could land somewhere in the Lake Mervin reservoir area (Washington). The area was carefully inspected, and all local residents were interviewed.

FBI officers figure out where Dan Cooper could land

Photo: Clark / AP

FBI officers figure out where Dan Cooper could land

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The FBI even searched the bottom of the reservoir that Cooper drowned. But the investigators did not find any body or traces of the criminal.

But in 1980, nine years after the incident, eight-year-old Brian Ingram, who was vacationing with his family on the banks of the Columbia River, found a half-rotten bag of money. The same ones that were issued to Cooper – the banknote numbers matched.

But of the $200,000 that the hijacker received, only $5,000 surfaced in the river. This means that either Cooper really crashed while jumping, and the rest of the money simply has not yet been found, or he himself threw away the bag with a small amount to throw the investigation off trace.

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Money discovered by Brian Ingram

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The suspects in the Cooper case were anyone who matched the description and had military training, especially skydiving. In addition, interrogations turned out to be either those who themselves called themselves the same Dan Cooper, or those in whom neighbors and even relatives began to recognize the famous hijacker.

For a time, the FBI’s own prime suspect was Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., a US Army veteran who served two terms in Vietnam. He had all the necessary skills. Moreover, he also hijacked the plane – six months after Cooper. He was able to jump out with a parachute, but forgot his notes on the plane, according to which he was easily identified.

He was sentenced to 45 years in prison, which, however, he did not serve. McCoy escaped from prison by ramming through the gates in a hijacked garbage truck. Three months later, he was discovered and shot to death in an attempt to arrest him. Later it turned out that at the time of the hijacking in Portland, he had an alibi: he was in Las Vegas that day.

Find the same Dan Cooper for 45 years, which lasted the investigation, the FBI could not.