text: The words "genius" and "tragedy" are often misused, but it can be said without a doubt that motorcycle designer John Britten was an undisputed engineering genius, and that his death in 1995 of skin cancer at age 45 was a significant tragedy for the motorcycling world. The brilliant bikes he developed were enough to ensure his enduring status by their technological excellence and avant-garde engineering alone; the fact that they also won major races around the globe, defeating established manufacturers with far greater available resources, only adds to his legend. That Britten motorcycles were designed and built in faraway Christchurch, on New Zealand's South Island, enhanced their otherworldly mystique. Operating in such remote isolation, Britten had little choice to do it alone, and his way. Britten suffered a severe reading disability that made book learning laborious, so he learned to trust his intuition and experience more than what some book said was right. (Though he did hold a mechanical engineering degree, eventually completing a four-year night school program.) This was the root of his innovative nature. He used cutting-edge materials, like carbon fiber. He developed his own girder fork, rather than use someone else's telescopic unit. He dispensed with conventional wisdom entirely, using the engine as a fully stressed chassis member, locating the rear shock behind the front wheel, hiding the radiator under the seat to reduce frontal area, and embracing EFI when the technology was in its infancy. John Britten was an innovator above all else. After spending his early twenties as a hippie dropout making and selling glass lamps and handmade furniture, Britten joined his father's business and became one of New Zealand's leading property developers—and an avid motorcyclist on the side. Already a successful vintage racer, Britten was testing some of his esoteric ideas about chassis design with a Ducati-powered prototype in the mid-'80s when he teamed up with an engineer named Bob Denson, who produced an air-cooled, 60-degree V-twin engine under the Denco name. In 1986, Britten debuted his first eponymous motorcycle, the Denco-powered "Winged Wonder," known for its distinctive, futuristic bodywork. The "Winged Wonder" was John Britten's first attempt at a monocoque frame. Aerodynamic bodywork was influenced by experiments with his hand-built glider. The "Winged Wonder" was John Britten's first attempt at a monocoque frame. Aerodynamic bod Britten's first V1000 looked almost conventional with its full fairing. The best result was at Daytona in 1991, where Paul Lewis finished second to Ducati's Doug Polen. Britten's first V1000 looked almost conventional with its full fairing. The best result wa Kiwi Ingenuity: The V1000 was designed, built and raced by Britten (center) and a handful of loyal countrymen. It defeated the world's biggest manufacturers. Kiwi Ingenuity: The V1000 was designed, built and raced by Britten (center) and a handful The most remarkable aspect of that first Denco-Britten was its chassis—a Kevlar/carbon-fiber monocoque that used the engine as a stressed member, with an under-seat fuel cell and the rear shock mounted horizontally beneath the engine. Inspired by the KZ 7 "Kiwi Magic" America's Cup sailboat that used similar Kevlar/carbon-fiber construction, and informed by fellow New Zealand designer Steve Roberts' similarly configured, Suzuki-powered "Plastic Fantastic" TT Formula 1 racer from 1983, Britten's monocoque design consisted of 26 separate pieces that were bonded together, weighing just more than 26 pounds. The 1000cc, 120-horsepower Denco twin was fearsomely fast but fragile in competition, inspiring Britten to soon build his own engine. Britten's design was cutting-edge in every way, utilizing fuel injection, a narrow valve angle and arrow-straight intake tracts. More importantly, it was designed to double as a fully load-bearing structure, giving the designer a completely free hand with the chassis configuration and opening the door to the "frameless" construction that defines the radical Britten V1000 that followed. Reliability problems prevented that first V1000 from achieving anywhere near its full potential, but instead of giving up, Britten started over with a clean sheet to design and build the "Mark II" version that finally proved the genius of his radical thinking. The eight-valve twin was left mostly as-is, and Britten manufactured all the components in house, save for the pistons and gearbox (sourced from Suzuki). Both 1000cc and 1100cc versions were built, delivering 160- and 171-bhp respectively, far exceeding even the best available performance of the factory Ducatis. The bulk of Britten's energy, however, was focused on optimizing the radical chassis. The bike was redesigned completely to be as slim and aerodynamic as possible, with most of the bodywork stripped away to leave the booming engine and proprietary suspension systems in clear view to the world. Up front appeared Britten's own carbon-fiber girder fork design, similar to the Fior wishbone but with optimized geometry. All the carbon-fiber components, including the monocoque body, fork "blade," swingarm and even the wheels, were formed using Britten's unique and now-patented "wet-laying" method. The first test of the Mark II was far from encouraging—the fork snapped off, with a TV camera on-board no less! Alterations were made to the design, however, and the bike's potential was apparent during its very first racing outing, at the Daytona Battle of the Twins event in 1992. Despite a cracked cylinder in practice that caused New Zealand-born rider Andrew Stroud to start from the back of the grid, the Britten was soon running at the front and wheelying past Pascal Picotte's works Ducati on the infield straights, until rain caused the race to be stopped. A flat battery (after the ignition was mistakenly left on during the break) was all that prevented Stroud and Britten from winning that event. The team made up for that mistake by winning the Battle of the Twins round at Assen later that year, followed by second place in the Pro Twins category at Laguna Seca. This was just the beginning of the Britten's incredible stretch of Twins-racing success. There was no BOTT race at Daytona in 1993, so instead Britten concentrated on setting a series of World Speed Records, including the 1000cc marks for standing-start quarter-mile, kilometer and mile, as well as the flying mile. When BOTT returned to Daytona in 1994, it was Britten-mounted Stroud standing at the top of the Speedway's podium—a feat he repeated again in 1996, '97 and '98. Brittens also dominated the 1994 New Zealand Formula 1 national championship with rider Jason McEwan. True racing success arrived in 1995, when Stroud won the BEARS (British, European and American Racing Series) World Championship rounds at Daytona, Thruxton, Zeltweg, Brands Hatch and Assen, dominating on an international stage. Stephen Briggs, on a customer's Britten, clinched second in the series. It was a fairytale ending for the eccentric man from Christchurch, and it wasn't a moment too soon: John Britten passed away just three weeks after Stroud was crowned champion, following a brief battle with melanoma. His death meant the end of several projects under development, including a planned Britten Supermono with a liquid-cooled, six-valve single that used structural carbon-fiber crankcases to produce a roadracer weighing less than 200 lbs., ready to race. As it stands, the Britten Motorcycle Company built just 10 V1000/1100 Mark II motorcycles in their distinctive blue-and-pink livery that was inspired by a piece of decorative glass Britten owned and admired. The V1000 has no frame. The front suspension unit and the rear subframe attach directly to the cylinder heads—a design copied by Ducati's 1199 Panigale two decades later. The V1000 has no frame. The front suspension unit and the rear subframe attach directly to Britten believed in the superiority of carbon fiber to save weight and increase strength. The V1000 used the material extensively, including in the swingarm and wheels. Britten believed in the superiority of carbon fiber to save weight and increase strength. Tuned, equal-length exhaust headers, powder-coated violet to coordinate with the sign-of-the-times blue and pink paint job, have a serpentine look. Tuned, equal-length exhaust headers, powder-coated violet to coordinate with the sign-of-t John Britten achieved a great deal in his short life. Those fortunate enough to have known him will remember his boyish smile, his shy stammer, his admiration for anything different or unusual, and his uncompromising drive for success. His memory is honored by any avant-garde two-wheeled design done right—especially one that's proven on the racetrack. MC Tech Spec Evolution The second-generation evolution of the V1000, with a minimalist carbon-fiber monocoque body and experimental front and rear suspension. Rivals Bimota Tesi, Ducati 888, Harley-Davidson VR1000, Moto Guzzi Daytona 1000, Saxon-Triumph. Tech Price NA Engine type l-c 60-deg. V-twin Valve train DOHC, 8v Displacement 999cc Bore x stroke 98.9 x 65.0mm Compression 11.3:1 Fuel system Britten/Franklin EFI Transmission 5-speed Claimed horsepower 160 bhp @ 9700rpm Claimed torque NA Frame Carbon-fiber monocoque Front suspension Britten double-wishbone parallelogram girder fork with single Ohlins shock Rear suspension Single, pullrod-operated Ohlins shock Front brake Dual AP four-piston calipers, 320mm discs Rear brake AP two-piston caliper, 210mm disc Front tire 120/60-17 Michelin Radial slick Rear tire 180/67-17 Michelin Radial slick Rake/trail 23 deg./3.8 in. Seat height NA Wheelbase 56.3 in. Fuel capacity NA Claimed curb weight 318 lbs. Color Blue/pink Verdict 5 out of 5 stars Original, innovative and above all, effective, John Britten's mechanical masterpiece is still ahead of its time! « | 1 | 2 | View Full Article By Alan Cathcart Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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A native of Flintville, TN, Harmening came to MTSU after having served his country well in WWII, earning three Bronze Stars and a Distinguished Service Medal. He was a walk-on and made the team from among 70 or more players who tried out in 1946. He was captain of the team in both his junior and senior years, and was an all-conference (VSAC) performer in his junior season.
During his career at MTSU, he played for three different Hall of Fame coaches, Dr. E.K.Patty, Coach Bubber Murphy and Coach Charlie Greer. Harmening also lettered in baseball in both his sophomore and junior seasons.
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In the early spring of 1975, a pair of long-time supporters of Middle Tennessee State University's athletic program decided that the University should honor its greatest athletes. Homer Pittard, alumni director, and Gene Sloan, public relations director, came up with the idea and asked sports information director Jim Freeman to join them in setting up an athletic hall of fame.
After getting approval for the Hall of Fame from President M. G. Scarlett, the trio began laying the groundwork to select the first inductees. Others, including Bob Womack and Joe Nunley, were also involved.
"We decided not to have categories but to put all candidates in one group," said Freeman. "We also decided against inducting a large group to start with and felt that three per year was the ideal number. That way, everyone got a good share of the spotlight."
The nominating and voting for the first several years was done by members of the old "T" Club, now reorganized and called the Varsity Club. Nominations were solicited, and the the list of candidates was mailed to the voters. They selected Horace Jones, Charles "Bubber" Murphy and Teddy Morris as the initial inductees in 1976.
The Blue Raider Hall of Fame was originally housed in the old Blue Raider Room under the west side of the football stadium. It had to be torn down when then stadium was expanded in 1998. After several years without a home, the Hall of Fame moved into the new Rose and Emmett Kennon Sports Hall of Fame building in 2004.

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The weekend death of a student at the Naval Submarine School in Groton is under investigation.
The Day of New London reports Monday that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the death of 25-year-old Seaman Apprentice Joshua Allen Woods of Memphis, Tenn. The Navy said Woods was unresponsive when his roommate found him in his bed at their barracks room Saturday morning.
The Navy said the roommate notified school supervisors and Woods was taken by ambulance to a New London hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Woods' funeral was Monday in Tennessee, where he was buried with military honors at the Western Tennessee State Veterans' Cemetery.
The Navy said Woods began the basic enlisted submarine course in May 2012 and graduated in January. He was awaiting his new assignment.
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Tonawanda News — The monthly gathering of the Northtowns Soccer Club on Oct. 12 started out routinely enough: Approval of the previous meeting's minutes, acceptance of the treasurer's report, details on ordering new team uniforms.
But the session became anything but cut-and-dried when talk moved to new business and a club official talked openly about fees paid to some board members and how this might create a potential problem for the non-profit, all-volunteer organization with the Internal Revenue Service.
Then, a month later, an item about the meeting appeared in the Tonawanda News' reader "Sound Off" opinion column claiming Frank Huber, the club's workhorse vice president, was receiving $4 of every $120 player registration fee and that other club officials "also benefited financially."
The item was signed, "concerned coach."
The Northtowns Soccer Club, founded in the 1970s to promote youth soccer in Western New York, suddenly was caught up in a controversy nobody expected or wanted to talk about.
But an inquiry by The News into the club finances — including fees paid to club officials, and a review of the organization's 990 federal tax-exempt forms for 2008, 2009 and 2010 — moved club officials to explain the club's fiscal affairs and why no one need be alarmed.
Club President Jerry Sullivan confirmed that Huber received $4 from each player's participation fee because he handled the time-consuming tasks of registering players and coaches, scheduling soccer games and maintaining the organization's website, among other things.
He said Huber received about $25,000, largely to cover expenses — not the $50,000 mentioned in the "Sound Off" item — over the eight years he served as the club's vice president of house before stepping down from the position at the October meeting.
Sullivan said the per player stipend to the vice president of house began when Huber assumed the hybrid role within the group, at a time when committed members were in short supply.
"Because I had no one to take over the administration. It was a colossal job and he transformed everything into the electronic world, and eliminated all the paperwork," he said.
He said the club official who scheduled referees received a payment of about $30 per week, and there were token stipends to coaches for conducting workshops and paid coaches and others who had received certification as athletic trainers.
Sullivan acknowledged that while the stipends amounted to only a few thousand dollars, they were not specifically reported as compensation to club officials on the organization's annual report filed with the IRS. Nor were 1099 income report forms issued to Huber or others who were paid $600 or more during the year — as required by the IRS.
Sullivan described the club's action as unintentional omissions, and said efforts were underway to correct the club's tax-exempt records.
Huber declined to comment about the stipends he received when contacted by The News, referring a reporter to Sullivan.
But Al Caruso, a founder of the soccer club who is no longer active in day-to-day operations, joined Sullivan in supporting Huber, dismissing concerns over his stipend for organizational duties.
"I wouldn't do it for $4,000 a year," Caruso said. "It's a pain in the neck."
Caruso estimated when he ran the league, the person in Huber's job put in about 20 hours per week, making it difficult to keep the position filled because of the low payment for the amount of work involved.
The next monthly meeting of the Northtowns Soccer Club is Thursday. Sullivan said he would discuss the matter directly with the membership then.


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I have been getting too many emails and IMs from readers that tell me that they'd like to weigh in on my blog posts but can't because the thread had degenerated into a shit-flinging contest. So let me remind you of sfbg.com's policy on comments.
Comments that have nothing to do with the topic, that are nothing but ad hominem attacks, or that include offensive language or hate speech, are subject to being deleted. We want this to be an open forum, but we also want to keep it (relatively) civil (and relevant).
Unless the topic of my blog post is "does Johnny Angel Wendell (or Tim Redmond/Bruce Brugmann/The SFBG/Another poster) suck or do they rule?" your irrelevant comments are going to go.
We wouldn't converse with each other in person this way. That is the rule of thumb.
Tear the premise of the blog post to pits, praise it to the skies, be indifferent, fine. I'm personally fair game as well (good or bad), as long as the topic is the subject. This isn't that hard. I don't wanna be an Internet cop. But because a few allegedly adult readers are driving off an awful lot of would-be participants, I'm going to have to use the "delete" key.
I'm glad you said that, Johnny Angel. Everyone should be civil in the blog-forum.
People do need a reminder of this now and then.
here, I suspect some or most of those pious IM complaints likely as not originate from the same places as rubbish ad hominem attacks.
rubbish add ominem. That's a good way to put it. Johnny Angel does not suffer fools gladly. Which is why the trolls take such a beating from him.
Who, of course, we all know is JAW.
You, of course, have incontrovertible evidence to back up your claim. Who is "we all"?
AW can sign off as Bert, Hal or anyone else and nobody is the wiser.
Unless, of course, he creates a pattern that can be deconstructed, as here.
Words cannot describe what a despicable experience it has been for so many years to attempt to engage in political conversation on the SFBG blog pages.
I don't even bother to read the comments anymore, and have become so disenchanted with the endless caustic crass trolling here, that I now only skim the SFBG paper itself - when I was once a very involved reader and participant.
The SFBG's woefully misplaced ethic that it is somehow protecting free speech to allow abusive assholes to constantly attack, trivialize, and essentially continuously verbally rape other commenters, and the journalists, is incredibly misguided and results in a deep disrespect dealt to the reader and would-be political participant.
Kudos to you Johnny for stepping up to use the delete button, but doing this on your own will not be nearly enough to solve the problem. It takes a huge amount of time and effort to read through every comment and weed out the endless streams of bullying and abuse from trollers.
The only way to really solve this problem is to require posters to register with legitimate verified email addresses or FaceBook/Google/Twitter/etc accounts, with which they must log in to post comments. And then when those accounts prove to being used to assault and abuse people, cut them the hell off from commenting. This, combined with interactive filters allowing readers to make individual commenters disappear from their reading experience (in FaceBook known as 'blocking') would solve most of the problem.
This second, filtering option, is very important because it will allow readers to weed out commenters who follow morays of politeness, and yet still post purposely inane provocative (usually neo-conservative) comments for no other reason than to continuously offhandedly harass left viewpoints with no intention whatsoever of engaging in a real debate with legitimate arguments. This doesn't serve democratic discourse either, and readers should have the power to ignore it.
Please SFBG, take strong hand with this stuff, so that the blog can once again become a robust and enlivened platform for badly needed discourse on civic issues; a discourse which does not exist on other more mainstream forums.
If you do - I will start avidly reading your paper again.
yes, kudos to Johnny Angel for exposing the graphty poseurs. Registration would be much needed first step.
yes, kudos to Johnny Angel for exposing the graphty poseurs. Registration would be much needed first step.
Please require posters to register with this site. It would cut down on most of the abuse and make the comments section readable. And thank you, anonymous!
(Note: this is addressed to commenter above who signed on as "anonymous", not the troll "anon".)
Why not? Because there is no limit to the number of signon's a person can have.
SFBG can limit handles and email addresses. But they have no real way to identify people.
This is simply not true. If a valid email address, or better yet social media account, is required to register and only one registration on that account is allowed, it will cut way down on trolls, once those registrants are blocked for trolling.
It is true that one can create new email accounts incessantly, but many trolls will grow sick of having to do that and go harass easier targets.
And even this infinite email accounts problem would be solved by simply requiring the registrant to use a social media account like FaceBook, Twitter, of Google+.
Almost all other news sites that take comments use these strategies.
SFBG is behind the times.
the problem with websites that try and restrict access is that they can only restrict things like email addy and IP.
Since you can have unlimited numbers of email addresses and your IP changes with every Wi-Fi zone, you can never be effectively banned.
Better to just allow free speech, even though that sounds terribly American.
If not, you're contradicting yourself.
Self-contradiction is the M.O.
As "Anon", I am neither of those pretenders.
It was the dude from the Occupy movement who first adopted that moniker. The rest of you are all pretenders.
I see you fell for it.
You've fallen for your own inflated image of yourself. Too bad nobody else is impressed by it.
The second anonymous is incorrect. Social media accounts are not infinite. If you get caught creating more than one you get cut off.
So all SFBG has to do is require registration through FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, etc. and it will have a mechanism to block trolls specifically by their accounts.
I trademarked "anonymous".
Try and keep up here.
There are so many people claiming to be you that no one can tell you apart. So your identity has been effectively usurped. Love it!
That's exactly what I intended you to think, and it worked.
Your logic has descended into the Theatre of the Absurd. Off your meds, pumpkin?
And then trying to cover it up.
Oh Anon, posing as guest. How precious. And all your talk about confusing posters with each other. You're hilarious.
I'd recognize you anywhere.
But not "Anon".
This, from a guy who refers to his political opponents as "assholes".
Do you understand the distinction?
Mandated civility for me, but not for thee.
Is there someone on this forum named "Republicans" that I am referring to?
Therefore, not a personal attack, even if some Republicans may not like it much.
It's like this--you are absolutely free to post "Johnny, you are really an asshole for calling Republicans "assholes" and this is why" and not "you're an asshole".
Do you understand that, yes or no?
Johnny-Come-Lately's latter day conversion to prudity does rather stick in one's craw, ya know?
And yet, you can't tear yourself away from the place.
Why is that?
making my living, I enjoy the light relief that comes from easily winning debates by debunking flawed thinkers.
ha! that's rich
Then again, there's really not much competition.
just ad hominems galore!
That's for those who are losing debates.
never. wow, that's rich.
He appears to not need to.
You're confused and all your identities are getting mixed up. So which is it? The three faces of "anon" or early alzheimers?
The other poster consistently denied it.
You lost this debate a long time ago.
Perhaps JAW will have a better response, buy my rather effortless understanding of the distinction is that it is it is okay to say someone has acted like an asshole and explain why in the context of a story, but it is not okay to simply cast epithets about.
mindless kneejerk attacks on people simply because they are successful?
I'd certainly welcome that.
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All 3 kids that VCU signed were better regarded than Stith. Just because we have offers out to several guys doesn't mean they were our top targets. VCU and ECU aren't even close to comparable as programs, especially now. We had 1 scholarship that was available that was going to Antravious Simmons, a public top target for over a year who had a FAR superior offer sheet to Stith.
The ridiculous nonsense is that you actually think a kid would choose ECU over VCU if he had a choice to go to either. ECU is where basketball talent goes to die. Look at all those recruiting 'coups' you listed, what have they done to make ECU relevant in college basketball? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
He's not a guard #1, especially not a 6-1 shooting guard like the kind you claim to have signed instead, but keep telling yourself that ridiculous nonsense. The guy is John Fields with a jump shot if anything. You had scholarships when he signed, wanted him, and lost out. I don't know what's so hard to believe, we've beaten you guys plenty over the years on quality players we both offered.... John Fields, Brock Young, Gabe Blair, Jamar Abrams etc. Nothings changed. We got another good kid Caleb White, from Virginia as well with a offers from Virginia Tech, Cincy, Richmond etc. We got both he and Stith mid summer when they were just starting to blow up.
No you didn't. VCU had their 2 guard recruits long before Stith committed before the July eval period started. No offer from VCU at the time he committed to ECU which was late August. UVa's offer was conditional upon him reclassifying to 2014. Why on earth would he chose ECU if given the option to choose between both schools? They couldn't be in more different places right now.


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JACKSON, MS (WLBT)- Jackson's Jr. ROTC students got a chance to show off their highly polished skills on Saturday.
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California--Your Freedoms Still Need Protection
From the HSLDA E-lert Service...
California--Your Freedoms Still Need Protection
Dear HSLDA Members and Friends:
By now you have probably heard that the California Court of Appeals
reversed itself on August 8, 2008, ruling that homeschooling, under
the private school exemption, is legal. The court reversed its
previous decision handed down on February 28, which found that only
state certified teachers could legally homeschool in California.
Family Protection Ministries (FPM), Roy Hanson, Jim Davis, and Nathan
Pierce, legislative lobbyists on your part, played a key role in the
victory. Their lobbying efforts and organizational talents were
essential in bringing success to the homeschoolers in California
through this recent case.
Before I give the details on how they did it, it is important for you
to know that they worked almost around the clock from the date of the
original decision in February, until the ultimate victory on August 8.
As a result, their resources have been depleted and we, as the
homeschooling community in California, need to replenish their
treasury to ensure their continued lobbying efforts on your behalf.
They work full-time to represent homeschooling before the Legislature.
Their work will be more critical now than ever before.
Let me explain two areas of activity by FPM that brought about victory
on behalf of homeschoolers in California.
In the 1998 California legislative session, Roy and Jim were able to
get language attached to a law (The Montoya Act). This law requires
all private school employees to be subject to background checks and
requires fingerprints to be submitted to the Department of Justice.
Roy and Jim got the following language inserted in the statute that
required these background checks: "This section shall not apply to a
parent or legal guardian working exclusively with his or her own
child." Their motivation was to solidify the argument that
homeschools could legally operate as private schools in California.
The KEY reason for our victory in the Court of Appeals' August
reversal of its earlier bad decision was the finding by the court that
the legislative history of this amendment to the Montoya Act confirmed
the Legislature's apparent intent to accommodate homeschooling parents
through the private school provision.
Secondly, after the adverse decision came down in February, there were
well-meaning members of the California Legislature who expressed their
plans to fix the bad homeschool case decision by introducing
legislation. Through Roy, Jim and Nathan's tireless efforts, they
were able to convince legislators that this was premature and unwise.
In order to satisfy the frustration of some of those who wanted to fix
the problem legislatively, they worked with a legislator who wanted to
write a proposed resolution supporting homeschooling, condemning the
decision, and asking that it be reversed. This resolution was
introduced in the Legislature.
Roy, Jim and Nathan of FPM coordinated a unified effort by all the
statewide homeschool organizations to join in supporting the
pro-homeschooling resolution and opposing all homeschool legislation,
which would change the law. As a result of their actions, no
legislation was introduced and now we have a clear-cut court decision
in California confirming the legality of homeschooling via the private
school exemption.
FPM's success is only possible because of relationships developed over
many years with key officials in every branch of government. We
simply cannot thank FPM enough for what they have done for
homeschooling in the past, and now just recently, to preserve our
However, there is a major problem lurking that mandates that we
support FPM financially now! The court decision alluded to a lack of
definitive ability to regulate homeschooling by the state and
suggested that the Legislature might want to look at fixing this
problem with new legislation.
FPM's role is more important now than ever before. They must be fully
equipped with the resources necessary to monitor legislation that
could detrimentally affect homeschooling in California and be able to
mount an attack against any attempt to legislate homeschooling. We
know that any proposed legislation will mean more regulations and LESS
freedom than we currently have.
Therefore, I am asking you to give sacrificially and generously today
to FPM to ensure that we maintain our current level of freedom to
homeschool in California.
FPM needs both new regular monthly support and one-time gifts. I know
many of you have given to FPM in the past, and I thank you. Your
investment in this ministry continues to pay off with the preservation
of your freedom. Out of gratitude for what they have done in the past
to preserve our freedom, and based upon the continued necessity for
their existence in the future, please consider forwarding this request
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Thank you for your consideration of FPM's urgent need as they work
diligently to protect our freedoms.
God Bless,
Mike Smith
President, HSLDA
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Although it had been rumored that some NFL replacement referees are castoffs from the Lingerie Football League, neither league would go on record to confirm that … until now. Arriving in my inbox at 12:49 a.m. this morning was this email from Lingerie Football League president Mitch Mortaza:
"Because of the LFL's perception it is that much more critical for us to hire officiating crews that are competent, not only for the credibility of our game but to keep our athletes safer. Due to several on-field incompetent officiating we chose to part ways with with a couple crews which apparently are now officiating in the NFL. We have a lot of respect for our officials but we felt the officiating was not in line with our expectations.
We have not made public comment to date because we felt it was not our place to do so. However in light of tonight's event, we felt it was only fair that NFL fans knew the truth as to who are officiating these games"
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By Gianna Addario Staff Writer
The Salem News
---- — After nearly a five month long search, Swampscott High School recently named its newest girls basketball coach — Abrom Roberts.
The 28-year-old Baltimore native takes over for Jack Hughes, who stepped down back in June after 11 seasons with the program. Hughes led his squads to many postseason stints including a Division 3 state championship title in 2009.
Roberts is no stranger to the team as he was the junior varsity coach last season. He volunteered in the Beverly Kiwanis Club Leagueand and has been quite active in AAU basketball since moving to Massachusetts four years ago.
"I'm very familiar with the seven seniors just by being around the team from last year," explained Roberts. "I was at all of the practices and when I wasn't at home games I was out scouting for coach Hughes.
"I'm looking to bring a lot of excitement and a great attitude. I want to focus on defense and teach girls basketball skills, but also life skills. You want to build good basketball players, but you also want to build women of character."
Roberts, who recently bought a house locally in Peabody, works as a paraprofessional in the special education department at Briscoe Middle School in Beverly.
After much deliberating, the search team headed by athletic director John Flanagan, reached a decision earlier this week.
"I saw the ad for the position and went ahead and sent my resume," explained Roberts of the process. "I went on two interviews and the next thing you know I was offered the position. I was very patient because this what I love to do."
Assistant coach Niña Rogers is back this season as well after working along side Hughes last year.
The winter season starts the Monday after Thanksgiving and Roberts is looking forward to getting his 12-person roster ready.
"My goal is to keep the tournament success going," added Roberts. "We have a great group of girls with a lot of potential and we're moving in the right direction."
After being defeated by Pentucket in the Div. 3 North semifinals last year, the Big Blue finished at 18-4 and are looking to do some damage in the tournament this season.


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If you would like to ride the fan bus, there will be one going to the game on Friday.
The cost for the bus will be $45 per seat and does not include the price of your ticket.
The bus will depart Valdosta from the Martin Stadium visitor side parking lot at 5 p.m. sharp. The bus will return to Lowndes High following the game.
For reservations and additional information, please call Eleanor Gibson.
Tickets for this game are on sale for $8 each. Gates to the stadium will open at 6 p.m.. Kick-off is set for 7:30 p.m..
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Manchester school computer labs still missing volunteers
As of Tuesday, only one volunteer has committed to staff one of the "blended learning labs" that's opened at each of the city's three high schools, said Assistant Superintendent Michael Tursi.
The volunteers are key to Mayor Ted Gatsas' drive to modernize city schools by making online courses available to middle and high school students. Students can access the online courses through any computer hookup, but Gatsas has pushed to open a blended learning lab at each high school.
Three area companies - The Scrivanos Group, Quirk Auto Dealers and Dyn - have donated $35,000, which allowed the school district to equip the labs in the three high schools. Two weeks ago, Gatsas lauded the donors at a ceremony held at the West High School lab.
Gatsas said Monday that discussions are under way with a company - he would not name it - that is encouraging its workers to volunteer in the labs.
"I've had several phone calls from people interested in volunteering," Tursi said last week. "I'm optimistic. People need time to process the information, look at their schedules and see if it's feasible."
Tursi said he wants the labs open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every weekday. He'd like to have two or three volunteers for each high school. Ideally, the same group of volunteers would be on hand for consistency's sake, he said.
Volunteers are needed to monitor the students, to ensure safety, and to address any technical issues that may arise, Tursi said. Volunteers will not teach classes or have anything to do with the coursework. Nor would they be expected to quell any student conflicts, he said.
Every volunteer must attend a two-day training session put on by Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, which provides the online courses to the students. Tursi said he wants three volunteers signed up before the workshop is held.
School district policy requires any volunteer to undergo a criminal background check and pay a $25 fee to be fingerprinted. Gatsas said funds left over from the donations will pay for the fingerprinting.
Tursi said most of the people who contacted him about volunteering have technical skills.
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By Nick Snow
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STILLWATER, Okla. —
It may not have been Friday night, but there was definitely a hint of fall in the air as a cool mist swept over Pioneer Stadium just as the Stillwater High School football team wrapped up its first practice of the season Tuesday.
"It's awesome being back out here," Stillwater junior quarterback Braxton Noble said. "We haven't been together doing team stuff as a whole unit since team camp and that was at the beginning of June."
The weather and the stadium lights may have indictated that it was fall, but the play on the field indicated something else. There were still a few spectacular plays here and there, but there were also mistakes — as is to be expected on the first day of fall practice.
"We definitely missed some things, but there was some positive stuff that I think we can really build on," Noble said.
"It was a lot of fun, but we've got a lot of work to do," Barnard said. "We got off to a good start today. We're excited about it. We had the ninth-graders out practicing with us. ... That was hard for them to adjust to the speed that we're trying to do things at in our high school program, so they're a little behind and a little confused but we think in the end it's going to be a good thing for us."
The ninth-graders weren't the only ones confused. Barnard said Stillwater is still looking to find its offensive identity, knowing that the Pioneers have a slew of running backs and receivers at their disposal. He's hoping the team took a step in the right direction Tuesday.
"Offensively, we got to really find out what our identity is," Barnard said. "Last season, we were without Braxton for several weeks. We're replacing tailbacks — we kind of have a tailback by committee situation going. We know what we have at the receiver position because we basically got all of that back from last year, but it's those other positions that I just mention, we need to figure out what that will mean for us."
Even though they are still trying to find their identity, Noble said the offense ran relatively smoothly — aided by the fact that the temperatures stayed in the 70s.
"We were a little surprised by the weather because we weren't so water dependent," Noble said. "We could go a little bit longer without it because we weren't dead from the heat. That helped a lot because things went a lot smoother. The more upbeat we are, the easier practice is."
And that — along with the play of linebackers Cameron Mayberry, C.J. Citizen and safety Brooks Zimmerman — may have been the biggest surprise to Barnard.
"I felt like we had a lot of confusion," Barnard said. "I almost wished we would have had a dress rehersal (Monday). We had some confusion, but I think effort was pretty good — particularly out of our varsity guys. I'm really pleased with the way they came out compared to last fall."


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Many of his players were just nine or 10 years old on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., killing nearly 3,000 people.
So Tigers coach Josh Pastner thought it appropriate Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, to have his players join him and the rest of the University of Memphis coaching staff downtown at the Fire Museum of Memphis for the Memphis Fire Department's annual 9/11 memorial services.
"This is good for our guys," Pastner said. "The players are role models. Not heroes. The men and women in uniform are heroes."
Many of the men and women in uniform Saturday morning shook hands with Tigers players and coaches and expressed their appreciation for their presence at the service. Afterward, the entire team posed for pictures in front of Fire Engine House No. 1.
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Hi, my name is Dick Craddock and I'm the Group Program Manager for Windows Live Hotmail. "Group Program Manager" is just a fancy way of saying that I manage the team of Program Managers at Hotmail. We have the job of planning each Hotmail release and managing that release from beginning to end. We pick what features go in and write the specifications for those features. We also manage the schedule and work closely with the Development and Test teams to make sure the software comes in on time and has great quality, performance, security, and reliability.
Since this is the first of several posts on Hotmail that I plan to make over the next few weeks, I'd like to give you a bit of background on the Hotmail service – how it came to be, and what changes we've gone through over the years.
Hotmail was born on July 4th, 1996 – the creation of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was one of the very first services to offer free web-based e-mail. Originally, Hotmail was spelled "HoTMaiL," emphasizing its use of HTML for the web user interface. Hotmail became popular quickly, and by the end of 1997 already had millions of customers. Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft late in 1997 and was later integrated with another acquisition – the web-based calendar service, Jump. Hotmail continued to grow very quickly – reaching tens of millions of users in just a few years. Today, Hotmail has provisioned well over a billion inboxes and has several hundred million active users around the world.
The Hotmail service has gone through tons of changes since 1996. When Hotmail first started, we offered free e-mail with a 2 MB storage limit. Over time, we've steadily increased the storage limits to 2GB and 5GB. Today, we offer ever-growing storage, which means that you essentially never have to worry about storage limits again. (To prevent abuse, we do limit the rate at which you can increase your total storage, but if you add storage at a reasonable rate, you should never hit this limit.) In fact, we have some customers with well over 10GBs of mail in their inboxes.
Of course the user interface has changed pretty dramatically, too. Hotmail was the first to offer safety innovations like anti-virus scanning for attachments. We integrated the calendar service, built in a reading pane, and added rules, spell checking, search, web messenger, and lots more.
But over the years we've also made dramatic changes to the software that you can't see. I want to talk a bit about how our software is built and the kinds of changes we've made over the years to take advantage of better technology, make our development team more efficient, and integrate Hotmail and Calendar with the rest of the Windows Live services.
In the last blog post, Arthur de Haan gave you a peek inside the basic architecture of Hotmail. The architecture put in place by the founders over thirteen years ago was well designed and allowed Hotmail to grow rapidly, yet we've made tremendous changes and improvements over time. While a lot has changed, two powerful ideas have stood the test of time and have served us particularly well:
While the basics of the Hotmail system have endured over time, a great deal has changed. One of the huge challenges of running a service like Hotmail is that when we do make changes, we have to make sure that we keep the service running even while those changes are being made. It's perhaps a bit dramatic, but I like the analogy of changing the engine of a plane that is in flight! We've gotten very good at making these kinds of changes and we're able to make them quite often.
Two of the biggest changes that have been made involve (you guessed it) the Frontend and Backend sub-systems.
Starting in 2004, the Hotmail engineering team completely rewrote the Backend system, moving it off of an expensive and dedicated Unix-based storage system and onto a system that uses Windows Server and Windows SQL Server to exploit inexpensive, commodity computers and disk drives so we can provide users with far greater storage limits than had ever before been possible. The scope of these changes was immense – we had to physically change the hardware in the data centers to new hardware running new software, and we had to move the data from the old system to the new system with no interruption of service to our customers. Of course, this didn't happen overnight. It was a complex project that took years to complete because of the physical limitations for how quickly we could copy data onto the new disk drives.
More recently, Hotmail was upgraded to the latest version of SQL server, which, among other things, allowed us to dramatically reduce our downtime for maintenance. Hotmail is the largest Windows SQL Server deployment in the world, with thousands of computers and tens of thousands of SQL databases.
In 2005, the Hotmail engineering team undertook a similar rewrite of the Frontend system, and rebuilt both Hotmail and Calendar from the ground up. The old software was written in C++ and Perl, and it had served us well for many years. But the team knew that we needed to rewrite the services in a modern, managed language in order to take advantage of new technology being developed by many other teams at Microsoft. So, the entire Frontend was rewritten in C# and ASP.Net, and leveraged Windows Server and the latest version of IIS – Microsoft's web-server – to bring Hotmail into the modern world. These changes made our development team more efficient and have enabled us to share code with all the other Windows Live properties and with other teams throughout Microsoft.
Over the last several years, the Hotmail team has re-engineered the service from the ground up while growing Hotmail at an astounding pace. We've made critical investments to get our software where we want it to be and to give us the ability to deliver great features, great performance, great reliability, and great integration across Windows Live.
In my next post I'll talk about the work we've done on one of the hardest problems on the Internet: spam prevention. Until then, I hope you'll continue to use Hotmail and to keep the feedback and comments coming!
Dick Craddock Group Program Manager, Windows Live Hotmail
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@Chris Jones
You know, like the conversation view as on gmail, I find it's very hard to keep track of all the emails when 1 conversation can lead to "countless" emails.
Also, mind to provide us with https connection? I know it's not that important as not many people really know how to capture and read packets, but just make users feel safe.
@Kit - is conversation view the big missing management feature or are there others you'd like to see?
Hi @usctrojan98 - thanks for the feedback. We do enable custom domains (try http://domains.live.com). On "too busy and too confusing to navigate," can you give me some specifics or is it just a general feeling? Hear you load and clear on forwarding and IMAP.
Thanks for this blog and the idea behind it. It is quite fascinating to read about how far you have come from the original hotmail days.
I have a hotmail account forever but frankly I have not used it for anything serious since the past 3-4 years because it has been "too busy", "too confusing to navigate" and just too slow compared to the simplicity of say gmail.
It would be great if you could enable forwarding/custom domains and IMAP to compete with what gmail offers for free.
hoseabrown... thanks for the feedback. We are already well underway in fixing the issue you experienced with the Comment button.
Long time Hotmail user here (Feb 1998).
Just wanted to say thanks for a good and solid platform over the years.
This website needs to be fixed. When you click "Comment" at the end of an article, it should take you to the "Add a Comment" section or the login page, NOT an inch or two down to the comments!
And where is the "Feedback" link I've come to expect on Microsoft websites, which I use to report bugs like this one?
I have used hotmail for a very long time and remember the first logo quite well....
I have enjoyed watching it evolve and particpate in the service........
I will be forwarding this link to quite a few people...thanks for the post!!!
my hotmail account was registered 20th april 1998 it still had the globe logo back then the one just before the msn logo arrived.
i was in my last year of boarding school at the time and this was my first ever email account aswell as first web based email account, its served me well for the past 11 years so i have always stayed loyal to hotmail, i now have 2 hotmail accounts and frequently use windows live messenger too so keep up the good work guys.
Hi, I am more interested on how will hotmail's "mail management" will improve. The design of conversational view in Gmail really help that, I hope hotmail can have that as well.
Nice to read the History of Hotmail. It was my first email account on Hotmail way back in 2000 and still I'm continuing with it.
But one of my friends Hotmail account shows registered since 1st jan 1995 with 15th year Anniversary logo. How's that possible? Kind of Bug?


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Point Beach public schools will be closed on Monday and Tuesday, according to District Business Administrator Brian Savage.
"We will make a determination with regard to the rest of the week by Tuesday evening," Savage said in a text Saturday morning.
"If we are able to open later in the week the calendar will be adjusted to add Thursday and Friday as school days along with Wednesday if possible."
When Savage referred to the coming Thursday and Friday, he is referencing the fact that the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) cancelled its annual teachers' convention in Atlantic City that had been scheduled for those two days.
All public schools, and many non-public schools, in New Jersey had been scheduled to be closed on those two days, as has been the practice in prior years.
However, now that the convention is cancelled, many school districts are contemplating having school in session those two days to make up time for last week when many, if not all, districts were closed in the wake of Sandy.
However, the Point Beach district has not made a decision yet on that. When more information becomes available, Patch will post updates.
St. Peter School in Point Beach is announcing on its website that it is closed until Nov. 12 and that its annual craft fair that had been scheduled for Nov. 9 and 10 is cancelled.
Regarding Point Borough public schools, as of Friday night no decision had been made yet whether schools would open Monday. Patch is trying to reach district officials to get an update and will post as soon as information is confirmed by an official source.


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Monday, Feb. 11
7:13 a.m.: One car was towed after a two-car crash on South Quinsigamond.
8:40 a.m.: A resident of Sleepy Hollow went in to the Shrewsbury Police Department to report a dispute with a neighbor over a parking space.
12:06 p.m.: An officer assisted the Shrewsbury Fire Department with a carbon monoxide alarm activation on Rawson Hill Drive.
2:53 p.m.: A resident reported a noise complaint against Willy's Steakhouse. An officer spoke with the manager at Willy's.
5:13 p.m.: An officer stopped a vehicle near Walgreens on Boston Turnpike. Joseph Beaulieu, 43, of 11 Hollis St., Milford was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle with a revoked license.
7:38 p.m.: A caller from Avalon Way reported a "Craigslist larceny." The police department is still investigating the incident.
9:08 p.m.: A caller from South Quinsigamond reported two males fighting in the area. The caller said she was unsure whether it was a real fight or fooling around. An officer spoke with the two males involved.


text: Born in Los Angeles and a product of CalArts, Carl Stone was once a fixture in the local new music scene. Several years ago he moved to San Francisco, where he has since become a fixture in the Bay Area new music scene. All told, Stone, a pioneering composer with a unique and powerful style of sampling, is now one of the West Coast's better-known composers. But you probably have the best chance of actually hearing him perform or getting your hands on one of his recent CDs if you happen to be in Japan, where Stone has a large following and where he appears and records regularly.


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Midtown Market/Exchange — the former Sears headquarters in Minneapolis. A tornado warning had been lifted a couple of hours earlier. There's great Mexican food in here, and the famous Holy Land lunch and grocery, home of the jalapeño hummus, is here as well. A few years ago it was a derelict, empty shell. The upper floors house a medical facility, not a hospital.
Minneapolis just got voted best biking city in the US by Bicycling Magazine, beating out Portland and New York City. The US Census rated the city #2.
Last Thursday they instituted a bike share program called Nice Ride — an obvious sexual innuendo that was never mentioned. I was in town for one of my bikes and cities and the future of getting around panels, so I tried the system out — twice. Here's how it works.
There are bike stations all over a large section of town, covering downtown, and areas known as midtown and uptown (which are actually south and southwest of downtown). Each station has a map showing where the other stations are, so you know where to head for — most are within a few blocks of typical destinations.
Obviously you can also go to their website, where there's a physical map showing the station locations as well. You slide in a credit card (debit cards are no good — pin code entry is an issue) and decide how many bikes you want. You get the first 30 minutes totally free — your card isn't charged. After those 30 minutes are up, the fees kick in, ramping up the longer you hold onto the bike. You have unlimited 30 minute chunks available to you within a 24-hour period of your rental — all at no charge. The idea is to encourage short trips, not long, leisurely day trips. You don't have to return the bikes to the station where you got them… you typically abandon your bike at a station near your destination. When you've done your business there and want to return home, or to your hotel in my case, you go back to the station, re-insert your credit card and are issued a release code number. You can repeat this process as many times as you like in the 24-hour period and not be charged. I made one trip to Dero, a company that makes bike racks, and then later to the Uptown Theater, where the event was.
You can also get a yearly unlimited pass, which comes in the form of a stick you can attach to your keychain. When inserted into a slot at the stations it releases a bike instantly.
How are the bikes? Pretty good. They're made by Bixi in Montreal, where one of these systems is already in place. The Minneapolis bikes look nicer and are easy to spot, as they're electric green. They're super sturdy, of course, and have only three gears — which is plenty for a flat city like Minneapolis (or New York, or Melbourne, Australia, which is initializing their own system in a couple of weeks). There is a carrier contraption in front with non-removable bungee cords, which worked fine for me to attach my laptop bag. There are front and rear lights powered by hidden dynamos — so no batteries to replace. Mud and chain guards mean you can wear normal or office clothes and not worry about getting grease stains or puddle splatters. They're not lightweight — this isn't a sports bike by any means — but in a flat town like this it's no problem.
Luckily, my destinations were located in opposite directions reachable by the midtown greenway, a beautiful bike and pedestrian avenue that goes all the way across town — from the lakes to the Mississippi. It was a former rail line and for years had been abandoned — a gully filled with abandoned shopping carts and the detritus of the homeless. A few years ago it was cleaned up, and more recently the two-way bike and ped lanes were put in. There were lots of folks using it — it was gorgeous on a sunny day like today.
It's like an expressway — you exit via ramps. The next step is to tie in the local businesses along the way a little more.
In the early afternoon, I went to the local public radio station, where a few years ago they instituted a station with a new format called The Current, that plays more music than the usual talk and current affairs programming of most public radio. They feature local music and various kinds of alternative or indie music. Needless to say, it's hugely popular. A guy from the station would be a moderator at the bikes and cities event later.
Then I went to visit Dero, a company that manufactures bike racks to serve various, mostly practical, specific needs: cluster racks for colleges around the country, lightweight ones that can be dropped into position for temporary events, standard U-shaped ones, and I saw a prototype for a sheltered double-decker system. The upper level rail slides down so you don't have to hoist your bike up.
They're busy fulfilling lots of orders. We're in discussion about some custom-designed racks for specific cities in the near future, but have to get through some red tape first.
Outside their warehouse is a sensor powered by some solar cells.
Employees can attach a little electronic thingie to their spokes, which causes the sensor to beep when they ride by.
They are then rewarded by the company for riding to work, and receive a financial credit. New York has a similar law that employees can get tax credits or financial rewards for riding — though having an automated system makes it a no-brainer.
The panel in Minneapolis was typical of these events; the makeup was a city person, an advocate, a historian/planner and myself. On this one we were joined by Mayor R.T. Rybak, who has been instrumental in getting these programs pushed through. He's so popular that no one wanted to run against him in the last election. This event was under the umbrella of "Policy and a Pint," a series of gatherings organized by the same local NPR radio station, in which they encourage having a beer while discussing policy. At the Uptown the excellent local beers were dispersed in the theater lobby, which slowed down the seating considerably, but allowed everyone to loosen up a little.
I got lots of laughs during my slide talk, which was satisfying. I guess it's turned into a PowerPoint standup routine, with a bit of advocacy in there as well. I've adjusted my own presentation since I started doing these about a year ago — now I end on a more optimistic note, mentioning programs that are being instigated in lots of cities. It's not just about bikes either — they're merely part of a larger movement to make our cities more livable. There's a groundswell in many US cities to make them more pleasant, to improve the quality of life. Many of these changes involve giving cars less priority. Even car-centric cities like LA and Dallas are building park-like things that cover over parts of their freeways; high-speed bus lanes are being installed; and pedestrian zones are being expanded.
As usual, most of the questions during the Q&A after our talks were directed to the city person — in this case, the mayor. Big cheers… as he responded to some of the queries affirmatively, announcing plans for expansion and additions to current projects. The event was becoming less a presentation and more a rally and celebration.
We had to wrap up by nine, as the Uptown Theater was screening the Joan Rivers documentary.
On to Chicago. Nice show of H. C. Westermann's series of prints "See America First" at the Art Institute. He became known in the late '50s and '60s, but was maybe a little too unclassifiable to really become super well-known. He was a big inspiration for a lot of others, though.
The big show there was of a particular era (1913-17) when Matisse got a bit "experimental." Needless to say it is a popular show, but for my money it's a little bloated — there are maybe half a dozen super amazing and surprising paintings, and the rest is context and backstory.
To some these might look unfinished — but he worked long and hard on them, though they don't betray a lot of that time and effort. One wall text mentioned that WWI was quite a disturbing and disruptive event at that time — which is sort of an understatement, but it seems it had some shakeup effect on Henri. These were quite a bit different than his earlier work.
Later in the afternoon there was a freak storm — windows blew out on the Sears (now Willis) tower, a McDonald's drive thru sign got blown away, and the skylight of the Goose Island brewery, one of the bike event sponsors, got sucked out of their ceiling. Over 200,000 folks lost power. Earlier that day I was told that the "windy city" moniker is deceptive — that Chicago is not really all that windy…
"Sean Maloney was on the 68th floor of the [Willis] building Friday afternoon when he said he felt the building begin to sway. Open doors started slamming shut. A colleague suddenly slid across the floor in his chair. Looking out toward the west, Maloney could see a dark wall of clouds bearing down on the city.
Blocks of concrete fell from the Aon Center."
I think they'd better stick with Windy City.
The bike event was at the Cultural Center, which used to be a fancy downtown public library. Here is the ceiling of a room with a Tiffany glass skylight — unaffected by the storm. There was a wedding reception about to begin there, so I was shooed out.
The bikes and cities event was not as exciting as the storm, though Chicago is expanding their network of bike lanes and is going to initiate some high-speed bus routes soon too. It's cold here in the winter, but there are folks who bike to work all year round, so there.


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Here's the latest from the reports of the Wauwatosa Police Department:
At 3:14 p.m., a 16-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested for battery after he approached a Wauwatosa boy in the underground parking structure at Noodles and Co., 7700 W. State St., and began punching him. The victim, also 16, said he was leaning against a pillar with his bicycle flipped upside down resting on the handlebars when the Milwaukee boy walked up and grabbed his bike. The two got into an altercation and the victim said the boy began punching him in the face. While the victim was being interviewed, other officers had been dispatched to investigate a theft from a car in the 7200 block of Honey Creek Parkway. One of the subjects questioned in that incident matched the description of the assailant, who had last been seen heading that way. The victim identified the Milwaukee boy from a photo array. The Milwaukee boy claimed that he had only wanted to "check out" the victim's bike and said its owner had called him a racial slur, angering him to violence. He denied being involved in stealing from a car.
At 12:18 p.m., a Delafield man employed at RR Donnelly, 3333 N. Mayfair Rd., reported that his laptop computer had gone missing after an unknown man had walked into the business and wandered around the office.
At 2:03 a.m., Carmelite Home for Boys, 1214 Kavanaugh Pl., same boy, same story. Every day for going on three weeks, the 16-year-old Madison boy walks away from the facility after lunch and doesn't come back until the wee hours of the night. If he makes it back by around 1 a.m., Carmelite staff just let him in. If he doesn't, they call the police. Sometimes staff call the police when he leaves, just to let them know he's out and about (see Monday, below). The boy has only once been found, wandering the Village, and cited for violating curfew. In that instance, he was high on K2, a synthetic marijuana product, and was in possession of a digital camera of unknown origin. Carmelite staff have said they believe the boy has "made some friends in Wauwatosa."
At 10:40 p.m., police arrested a 61-year-old Wauwatosa woman for drunken driving, first offense, after she ran into a tree in the 1600 block of North 118th Street and was found to be intoxicated.
At 10:21 p.m., a Milwaukee man reported that his bowling bag with three bowling balls and his keys had been stolen from him outside Bowlero, 11717 W. Burleigh St., when he briefly went inside to use the restroom. Outside video surveillance footage showed three men leaving while the bag was unattended, and one of the men grabbing and running off with the bag. The victim estimated the value of his loss at $630.
At 3:30 p.m., a Waukesha man reported that his wallet and cell phone had been stolen from his truck at Courtyard Apartments, 12250 W. North Ave., while he was unloading supplies for the landscaping business he works for. He said the property was worth $475.
At 6:32 p.m., two 23-year-old Milwaukee women were arrested for disorderly conduct after they got into a fight at Mayfair Mall. The arresting officer said that the first thing he saw upon arriving at the scene brown hair scattered on the ground and one of the women bleeding from her eye. Witnesses said that one of the women was in the store when the other entered and began yelling something at her about Facebook, then dragged her out by the hair and began punching her.
A resident of the 7500 block of Lincoln Place reported that he believed someone had entered his home and stolen his Nintendo 3DS game system. He said he had gone to the dentist and may have left his door unlocked because there was no sign of forced entry.
At 5 p.m., a resident of the 2400 block of North 64th Street reported that someone had stolen another copper downspout off his house. This was the third incident since June 13, and he has now lost four downspouts, each worth $500.
At 7:28 p.m., three 18-year-old Milwaukee women were arrested for theft at at Mayfair Mall. They had been seen in the men's Polo section carrying large empty purses and taking quantities of merchandise into fitting rooms and coming out empty-handed. Between them, they had concealed $930.86 worth of clothing in their bags.
At 4:21 p.m., a 17-year-old woman was arrested for theft at Macy's after she tried to leave the store with three articles of clothing worth $98 in her purse.
A resident of the 9600 block of West Palmetto Avenue reported that some time overnight someone had entered her unlocked car and stolen her laptop computer and a GPS unit, together with the computer bag worth $1,250.
A resident of the 2400 block of North 63rd Street reported that some time Monday someone had tried to break in to his garage. There were fresh gouges around the hasp of the lock as made by a pry bar, but the lock was not broken.
A resident of the 7500 block of West Meinecke Avenue reported that someone had slashed a tire on his car while it was parked in his driveway. He suspected a neighbor with whom he said he had a confrontation over fireworks.
A 34-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for forgery and a 29-year-old Milwaukee woman who was with him was arrested for being party to the crime after he tried to pass a bad check at , 6600 W. State Street.
In three separate incidents, employees of gas stations or convenience stores reported that a man of the same description had asked for two cartons of cigarettes and then grabbed them and run out of the store without paying. The incidents occurred at 6:35 p.m. Monday at the at 8806 W. North Ave., around 2:15 p.m. Monday at the at 11216 W. Blue Mound Rd., and at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the at 6804 W. North Ave. Each carton of cigarettes sells for about $85.
At 11:45 p.m., a 38-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested for theft after he tried to leave , 6950 W. State St., with a cart loaded with $211.83 worth of Red Bull energy drink. He tried to flee, but did not have enough energy to get away or to avoid being taken to the ground and handcuffed by a store security officer. The man told police he was stealing to support his heroin addiction. He was wanted on two warrants for failure to appear in earlier retail theft arrests.
At 1:27 p.m., Carmelite Home, same boy, same thing.


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Letters (Nov. 24, 2010)
Relay for Life plans changes for 2011
Relay season is upon us. The Relay For Life committee has begun planning for the 2011 Relay For Life.
We are excited to announce this year's theme as "Relay Remodel!" As times change, we are sometimes hesitant to change how we do things. We get caught up in the "this is how we have always done it" mode and forget to look outside the box.
This year the committee is excited to try some new things, make some changes and continue with some of the oldies but goodies.
A big change this year will be the date of the event. Typically, Relay has been hosted in June. This year's event will take place April 29-30 at Warrior Stadium in Marion.
A new concept we are going to implement is "Relay Bucks." Teams can earn Relay Bucks throughout the planning period by participating in a variety of meetings and events. Prior to Relay, teams will be able to "buy" some special privileges for the night of Relay.
In previous years we have had the Survivor Dinner the night of Relay. Last year we had a soup and pie supper after Relay.
This year we will be hosting a Survivor Brunch a few weeks prior to Relay. Survivors and their family and friends are invited to attend. Survivors will receive their T-shirts at the brunch to wear for the Survivor Lap at Relay.
One thing we will continue with this year is the silent auction at Relay. Last year each team was encouraged to put together a basket of goodies to auction off. This was a huge hit with teams as it gave them the opportunity to increase their fundraising. We look forward to seeing what teams can come up with this year.
If you would like to be a part of our "Relay Remodel," mark your calendars for Wednesday, Dec. 1. We will kick off the new Relay season with a party and informational meeting at 7 p.m. in the basement of the Marion Family Physicians Clinic.
Everyone is welcome and we will be handing out packets to register teams. If you have any questions please contact Jamie Norris, event chair, at 620-382-5848.
Let's make our Relay For Life of 2011 a time to remember, celebrate and fight back.
Jamie Norris 2011 Relay For Life Committee
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North County, San Diego (Oceanside)
Does anyone know of any company that will come to your home (or a venue) and do a wine (and chocolate) tasting party and I am also looking for a chocolatier to come to my home (or venue) to cater the event. I am the president of a non-profit organization on Camp Pendleton looking to have a social event for the military spouses of my organization. Any leads would be very appreciated. The venue would be in Oceanside and held at the end of February.
I am a wine expert and am qualified to give conduct a wine tasting event. I was trained by a master sommelier and can provide references from Qualcomm senor techs and other local bio-medical executives.
I have no access to chocolate or catering. I can bring the wine and tasting glasses. What would be the number of people?
I work by the base at We The People at Mission Ave. & El Camino Real.
Some other options/thoughts:
Call one of Chuao's locations and ask them if they know of anyone to recommend--maybe they'll even do it. Also I would just call around to some local wine bars and ask if they are into going off site to do a tasting. Not familiar w any wine bars in O'side, but there are plenty in Carlsbad and Encinitas.
The Wine Loft in Carlsbad is offering a wine and chocolate pairing on January 15th I'm sure that you could go in and ask how you could do the same at your house. They are extremely helpful.
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For the chocolatier catering part, contact Mariella at guannichocolates.com. Guanni sells handmade chocolates through the farmers markets, and they are the best I've ever had. She also does special orders and will probably cater--I know she does weddings. And she's located in Fallbrook. I'll probably see her husband at the farmers market today and will ask for you.


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There were some visitors from Frankfort at the Knott County courthouse Thursday.
A spokesman with the state auditor's office tells Mountain News that officials were there as part of an annual audit of the Knott County government.
However, he says they are also looking into recent allegations that include public employees being used to pave private roads.
Judge Executive Randy Thompson says he did nothing wrong and says the allegations have been stirred up by quote "sore losers in the recent election."