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Hank's Café, a nook of a bar tucked away on lower Nuuanu, is a place to meet good friends, have great conversation, and discover a variety of local songwriters from the Oahu Songwriters Group.
What Hank's may lack in size and frills, it makes up for in camaraderie. Saturday nights are often a mixed cocktail of local musicians, merry barflies and curious passers-by, enjoying their brimming brews while tapping toes to tunes performed live by local songwriters.
Every Saturday night, from 9:00 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. (or thereabouts), Hank's hosts the Oahu Songwriters Group live showcase. Each hour, two different musicians/bands share the stage, performing about four songs per set, passing the spotlight back and forth to one another. This "in the round" approach makes for a broad range of musical styles and creativity.
This is a great opportunity for musicians and music lovers alike to be introduced to the independent music scene in Honolulu. Doors open at 6:00 pm, full bar, limited dinner menu, no cover, no dress code, 21+ only.


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College Hockey:Burke leading Wisconsin-River Falls, says Falcons 'trust in each other'
Jeff Burke is in the midst of another stellar season for Wisconsin-River Falls.
The senior defenseman and two-time All-WIAC honorable mention selection is tied for second on the team in points with 12. He has scored three goals and dished out nine assists for the No. 13 Falcons.
"Things are going well," Burke said. "I've definitely improved my speed this year and my hand-eye coordination has gotten better."
Burke has helped the Falcons fashion a 10-4-2 overall record and a 3-1 mark in the WIAC.
Yet, he knows the success of the team is a credit to everyone in the lineup.
"We trust in each other as teammates and we know that anyone is capable of stepping up," Burke said. "We complement each other on the ice and my teammates have a lot to do with how well I've been able to play."
Willie Hess is one of those players. He leads the team in goals with 10 and has dished out three assists as well. Blake Huppert has come through with six goals and six assists, while Zach Schrotenboer has tallied five goals and five assists.
Ryan Doner (three goals, seven assists), Christian George (two goals, eight assists) and Mitch Kontny (five goals, three assists) have also been key contributors.
Alec Hagaman (three goals, five assists), Taylor Burder (two goals, six assists) and Mike Williams (three goals, four assists) have also stepped up for the Falcons.
As for Burke, being one of those players who has been an all-league selection doesn't put any added pressure on his shoulders.
His stats will tell you as much.
Burke is on his way to having his best season from a statistical standpoint. He scored three goals and dished four assists as a freshman and tallied four goals and two assists as a sophomore. Last season, Burke tallied two goals and 10 assists.
"I actually don't feel any pressure," Burke said. "I think it helps me to play better because I know I'm going to be challenged on the ice."
River Falls will be challenged going forward, especially in a conference that features two other nationally-ranked teams in Wisconsin-Stevens Point (third) and defending national champion Wisconsin-Eau Claire (seventh).
"We have a really tough conference – there is no one you can overlook," Burke said. "You have to be ready to play your best every night and we feel like we have the skill to be successful. It's just a matter of being mentally ready to go every night."
Brick Wall: Eau Claire has been rock solid in goal lately and the Blugolds posted their fifth consecutive shutout on Saturday as they blanked nationally-ranked St. Thomas 2-0.
Tyler Green got credit for the win and has been the winning goalie in three of the shutouts. The shutout of the Tommies makes Eau Claire only the second team at any level of college hockey to have five straight shutouts. Lake Superior State did it in 1994.
Green made 39 saves in the win and has yet to allow a goal in 2014. Jay Deo has earned the other two shutout wins.
Chris Heineman and Jack Callahan both scored goals for the Blugolds, who are 11-3-1 overall.
Streak Ends: Stevens Point had its five-game unbeaten streak end on Saturday in a 2-1 loss to River Falls.
Lawrence Cornellier scored the lone goal for the Pointers, who fell to 13-2-1 overall and to 2-2 in the conference.
The Pointers did win the opener of the series on Friday, though, as Cornellier, Nick D'Avolio and Kyle Sharkey all scored goals in the 3-0 win.
Stevens Point was tough defending the power play as it turned away all eight of the Falcons' chances. Stevens Point held a 27-23 edge in shots and Brandon Jaeger made 23 saves for his third shutout of the season.
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Purohit, P J; Michaelowa, A (2007). Potential of wind power projects under the clean development mechanism in India. Carbon Balance and Management, 2:8.
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BACKGROUND: The cumulative installed capacity of wind power projects in India is far below its gross potential (<15%) despite tax benefits, long term financing schemes, and receiving a very high level of policy support for more than 10 years. One of the major barriers is the high cost of investment in these systems. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol provides industrialized countries with an incentive to invest in emission reduction projects in developing countries to achieve a low-cost reduction in carbon dioxide emissions that also promotes sustainable development in the host country. Wind power projects could be of interest under the CDM because, when developed properly, they directly displace greenhouse gas emissions while contributing to sustainable rural development. RESULTS: Our estimates indicate that there is a vast theoretical potential of carbon dioxide mitigation by the use of wind energy in India. The annual Certified Emission Reduction (CER) potential of wind power projects in India could theoretically reach 86 million. Under more realistic assumptions about the diffusion of wind power projects based on past experience with government run programmes, annual CER volumes could reach 41 to 67 million by 2012 and 78 to 83 million by 2020. CONCLUSIONS: The projections based on the past diffusion trend indicate that in India, even with highly favorable assumptions, the dissemination of wind power projects is not likely to reach its maximum estimated potential within the next 15 years. CDM could help to achieve the maximum utilization potential more rapidly as compared to the current diffusion trend if supportive policies are introduced.
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Oct. 16, 2011
TUCSON, Ariz. - After their one and only bye week of the season, the Arizona Wildcats are sure of one thing: they are ready to get back to playing football.
Nearly a week after eight-year assistant coach Tim Kishwas named interim head coach, a sense of normalcy should return for the Wildcats as they enter game week preparations for Thursday night's Pac-12 matchup against UCLA. It will be Arizona's first home game in almost a month when ESPN televises Thursday evening's game set for a 6 p.m. start at Arizona Stadium.
Last week the Wildcats stepped away from game-specific preparations to focus more on themselves. They spent the majority of practice time last week working on fundamentals and competing against each other in spirited scrimmage situations.
As Kish described it, "There's a fine line with what the work ethic's going to be, and trying to get a little bit of fun instilled in the program as well. I'm going to try to find that mix."
Two of Arizona's team captains - cornerback Trevin Wade and quarterback Nick Foles- are welcoming the start of the second half of the season. Both stated their desires to make the most of the last six games of the regular season to the local media last week.
"Everybody is adjusting well and we're going to keep fighting," Wade said. "We're going to pull through and fight for ourselves."
"We've got a lot of season left to play," Foles mentioned. The only thing we can do is focus on our team and stick together.
"With six games left we can do a lot of things," Foles added.
While Arizona completed the first half of the schedule just 1-5, it was not without stiff competition. The Jeff Sagarin NCAA Football ratings rank the Wildcats' schedule as the toughest in the nation to the mid-point in the season.
Moving forward, the Wildcats will look to remain an explosive offensive team. Foles has thrown for the second-most yards of any quarterback in the nation (2,255 yards), and the team's 383 passing yards per game is the third-best mark in the nation. The squad has scored an average of 33 points per game in the last three contests.
The goal now will be to come out of the gates quicker. Arizona has been outscored in the first quarter of games 55-17 on the season, something that has fallen equally on the offense's lackluster starts and the defense's inability to turn teams away.
This week, along with a fresh start, Arizona would like nothing more than a fast start to put a difficult stretch behind them for good. It is something that has boded well for the Wildcats in recent years as they are 27-6 when leading after the first quarter since the start of the 2004 season.
"We're a big family," Foles said. "We're sticking together through the adversity. This is the time to be `all in' and not look back."
The new six-game season for the Wildcats and their fans begins on Thursday night at 6 p.m. Indeed, Arizona can get back to playing football.


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Overnight lows are expected to dip into the upper 70s, when rain chances will drop heading into Sunday.
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This book is about my grandson's first 18 years of life. It is dedicated to him for his High School Graduation. There are photos of his life and poems.
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The daughters of a Liverpool supporter who died at Hillsborough have launched an appeal to trace two fans who helped carry him on a stretcher.
Amy McGlone was five years old and her sister Claire was two when their father, Alan, passed away at the tragedy on April 15, 1989.
The sisters have in their possession a picture which shows two supporters helping to carry Alan across the field.
Amy and Claire believe the people in the picture might hold crucial information about what happened to their father on the day of the disaster.
And they are now appealing for the fans who helped carry their dad to come forward.
"It would mean a lot to us if we could speak to the people in the picture," said Claire. "On this picture, we are not sure if our dad is still alive.
"Fans have come forward since we first made the appeal and, although they were not the ones in the picture, they have told us things that we did not already know.
"It's really important for us to speak to the people in this picture, so that we can find out more information. It would give us some peace of mind if we were able to do that."
Claire can be contacted on Twitter via @claire_mcglone and Amy can be reached at @amyjft96.
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madmax Said...
"But now, and no doubt amidst much "hip, hip and hoora-ing" or whatever the French equivalent is"
I think that would be "au hau hau".
I think that would be "au hau hau".
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Nick B Said...
Thankyou Madmax, one can learn something useful every day.
03-Oct-08 09:25 AM
Cerebral Infect Said...
No we say it almost the same way : "Hip hip hip.... Hoora !!!"
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Kahoolawe commission braces for shutdown
May 2, 2014 - 8:21pm
WAILUKU, Maui — The chairwoman of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission warns that shutting down the commission could open up the state to liability.
Chairwoman Michele McLean tells the Maui News that without state funding, the commission is planning for shutdown. A funding bill didn't survive the state Legislature's session that ended Thursday.
She says 17 commission employees will lose their jobs and decades of erosion control work will go unmaintained.
The commission conducts escorted trips to the island. McLean warns that without the commission, people may trespass, leading to possible injuries and death from unexploded ordnance leftover from military bombardment.


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In Miami and around the world, April was a month of campaigns to help children with special needs. Recently, health officials have warned that unvaccinated American tourists attending the Olympic summer games can bring measles to the United States. Since large numbers of American travelers will visit London, Poland, and the Ukraine, the risk for measles infection increases because the virus is much more common in Europe. There have been 26,000 people infected with measles, as well as eight deaths.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been involved in a global effort, dubbed the Measles Initiative, to fight measles. For more information, the Center for Disease Control is a good place to get information. Locally, in Miami, contact the Miami-Dade Health Department.
Because of the coming Olympic summer games, health officials are particularly concerned that travelers to London, Poland, and the Ukraine will bring measles to the United States. The risk for measles infection increases because the virus is much more common in Europe. There have been 26,000 people infected with measles, as well as eight deaths.
In Haiti, fewer than 60 percent of the children in Haiti have full vaccination protection. Haiti's minister of health is hoping to increase the percentage of vaccinated children to 90 percent. Her focus is to make sure that children under five receive vaccinations against polio and measles.
Haiti is trying to remedy this situation with a campaign to immunize as many children as possible. Focusing on vaccinations against measles, rubella, and polio, the Haiti effort coincides with a global effort to disseminate information on vaccines--the World Health Organization's Immunization Week. information on vaccines--the World Health Organization's Immunization Week.
In another area of concern for parents of children with special needs, the National Autism Association (NAA) recently launched a campaign to help parents and caregivers of children who are a risk of elopement. Running away, wandering, and elopement are common in children who have autism and other special needs.
To increase awareness and offer concrete help, the NAA offered a supply box, dubbed the Big Red Safety Box, that included a toolkit to help families dealing with the issue of elopement. This promotion was to raise awareness and share some simple tools to help parents. The kit included educational materials, such as a caregiver checklist and a Family Wandering Emergency Plan; two GE door alarms; one Who's Shoe ID; and five laminated adhesive Stop Sign Visual Prompts for doors and windows.
April was a month for awareness of these challenges for families who have children with special needs.


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15:47, UK, Friday 27 August 2004
Naked thrill-seekers are stripping off in a bid to smash the world record for the most nude people on a rollercoaster. The 32 bare-bummed daredevils will board the Nemesis ride at Alton Towers fun park for their record attempt.
The current record was set on the Nemesis Inferno rollercoaster at Surrey's Thorpe Park, in May.
Every seat on the Alton Towers ride - on which riders' legs dangle freely - will be filled.
But the public's blushes will be saved as the cheeky pleasure-seekers have to wait until after the park closes before they can bare all.
They will be subjected to a force three-and-a-half times greater than gravity.
Spokesman Mike Lorimer said: "The response so far has exceeded all expectations, so we're quietly confident that we'll break the 28 passenger record."
But those interested will not find out whether the attempt was a success until a TV programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of Guinness World Records is aired next month.


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PHILADELPHIA — A dealer of rare historic documents is selling a trove of more than two dozen letters written by legendary newspaper editor Horace Greeley that describe his difficult and often critical relationship with President Abraham Lincoln during and after the Civil War.
The Raab Collection in Philadelphia has set the price at $45,000 for the 33 letters that belonged to an anonymous private collector.
The collection consists of 30 letters from the New York Tribune editor to then-reporter and future lawmaker Samuel Wilkeson, two to War Secretary Simon Cameron and one from Cameron to Wilkeson.
In one letter, Greeley writes "if this country is destined to fall, history will lay the blame on Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet." The one-time presidential candidate also takes aim at "half-hearted commanders" and "scoundrelly contractors."


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Sometimes we have to let nature run its course
Over at Bug Safari, Cindy writes that she found a giant swallowtail with a damaged wing that couldn't fly and that she repaired it with a "spare" butterfly wing she had. Apparently, the operation went well and the butterfly regained the ability to fly. Amazing!
Despite Cindy's good intentions, I have mixed feelings about interfering with natural processes. I don't object to rescuing birds and other animals from oil spills or treating animals injured by other types of human activities, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Injury and death caused by natural events are natural processes.
Should we be treating every animal that escaped with injuries from the jaws of a predator or a wind storm or a flood? We neither have a responsibility nor a right to do so. Natural selection doesn't need us to interfere with its affairs.
Sometimes we need to step aside, move away and just be impartial observers.
Sentimentality does not exist in nature.Incidentally, I am surprised that Cindy's butterfly couldn't fly when she first found it, because, as far as I can tell from the picture, its damaged wing didn't look too bad. I have seen butterflies with more damaged wings that could still fly. Here is an example of a butterfly with severely damaged wings and here is an example of a butterfly with a minor damage to one wing.
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By TOM LAGANA
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Almost everyone I meet receives a hug—a hug coupon, that is. My unique calling cards not only provide information about our business but are also redeemable for a hug, a smile, or an act of kindness.
Working with inmates doesn't make me the most sought after member of social circles, but it does provide an element of interest when I meet people. Other people's opinions of me don't ruffle my feathers. Some folks have asked blunt questions like, "You work with prisoners? Why do you stoop so low?" Whenever I hear such comments from uninformed people, I look them in the eyes and think to myself, I'd rather be chatting with an inmate than listening to you right now. Most people are receptive to our work; for them the hug coupons are a constructive icebreaker.
On a trip to Arizona, my wife and I took several tours, including Sedona's energy vortexes, the Grand Canyon, and the Hopi Indian reservation. Each tour lasted most of the day, giving us an opportunity to get to know the handful of people who shared the experience with us. Two of our guides were Native Americans who helped pass the time during our long drives by describing tribal customs and sharing native folklore.
I gave everyone a hug coupon during our excursions. When our crew realized the connection my wife and I have with prisoners, they revealed aspects of their private lives that under other circumstances would have remained private.
The guide on our first excursion told us about his son who was serving a long prison sentence. A Canadian gentleman seated behind us in the van mentioned that after a gratifying twenty-year career in corrections, he now ministers to inmates.
On the final tour, our Native American guide, George, mentioned that he had been incarcerated. As the hours unfolded, he revealed more about himself, along with local and ancestral history. He seemed almost relieved to be able to talk about what had happened to him years before. He had worked hard to become a successful guide and expert in his field.
Near the end of our adventure, I felt compelled to ask, "What made you turn your life around?"
"One day it hit me. I realized if I wanted to change my life, I needed to forgive the person I hated the most."
"Who was that?" I asked. Conversation ceased as we focused on what George would say next.
"It wasn't my mother or father or anyone who'd harmed me. The person I hated the most was the person I faced every morning when I shaved. Every day in prison, when I looked in the mirror, I realized I hated myself. Deep inside my heart, I knew I had to do something about it."
We waited patiently for George to continue. "Each day I'd look in the mirror and say to myself, I forgive you, and I love you. It felt phony at first. I didn't believe it, but I felt the need to say it every day. One day I finally accepted the idea that I'm a worthwhile person who deserves to be forgiven."
As we stepped out of the van, we all redeemed our hug coupons. I think we realized that a loving Spirit in a mystical land had touched us in a unique way, allowing us to make a special connection.
In early spring of 2005 an inmate was assigned by authorities at the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) to work in the Ft. Lyons plumbing shop by virtue of his past experience with remodeling and plumbing. In the course of his assigned duties this inmate, Reggie N. Keyes, R# 56804, ran across warning posters in the maze of plumbing beneath the building. Having spent 30 years in the remodeling industry he was well aware that the warnings indicated the presence of asbestos. When undisturbed, asbestos poses no threat to humans in the vicinity. Through the course of his work with the prison crew, he became aware that the asbestos materials were being disturbed while reconfiguring the hospital facility into a prison facility. None of these inmates had been informed of the risk nor given the proper safety gear to prevent inhalation of the dangerous particles.
Mr. Keyes became aware of a case being presented in court known as the Montez case. The Montez case is a class action suit filed on behalf of inmates within Colorado correctional facilities including various allegations of negligence and abuses. Reggie collected samples of the asbestos material and mailed them to the attorneys working on the Montez case and other attorneys including Judge Richard M. Borchers, Michael W. McDivitt, and others. Of anyone to have correspondence with, Mr. Keyes deduced that the attorneys already mounting a case were the ones he should contact about the gross negligence. The letters including his testimony and the asbestos samples were logged in as "Legal Mail". Inquiry of these attorneys revealed that no correspondence was received by the intended party.
Information received from the United States Postmaster General confirmed that articles mailed from a prison mail room do not become part of the U.S. Mail delivery system until those items are physically placed in a mail receptacle or into the hands of an authorized mail carrier. Therefore the Office of the Inspector General of Colorado in essence has control of every piece of mail going in or out of any detention facility. This gives the Office of the Inspector General motive and opportunity to prevent Mr. Keyes from providing information to the public of hazardous waste of which the Colorado D.O.C. has been exposing inmates and employees.
May 18, 2005. Mr. Keyes and Mr. Jeffrey Baker were involved in a minor scuffle while loading the plumbing cart for the day's work-related activity. Mr. Baker received a shin bark and 40 minutes later Mr. Keyes was arrested. The charge was use of contraband for the misuse of a 3/8 inch all thread, a commonly used piece of plumbers' equipment. He was tried and convicted for that minor scuffle and ultimately sentenced to 24 years where no injury occurred.
"We work on all kinds of issues, from medical care to abuse and assault, from religious issues to parole. Because D.C. is not a state, it creates a lot of added complexities for the prison population here. Currently, D.C. has a jail, but not a prison. Since Lorton Reformatory closed in 2001, we now rely on the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house our prisoners. There was no real reason for Lorton to close. The federal government could have taken it over when D.C. was facing financial trouble. Allegedly, there were all kinds of deals made, and the land is now townhouses. Because of that, D.C. prisoners can be sent to any of the 90-plus prisons around the country, although they try and keep them within 500 miles of D.C. However, it is not uncommon to find D.C. prisoners in California, Colorado, or Texas. For a while, D.C. juveniles were kept in North Dakota. We worked to get that overturned.
"While there are some positive changes, the overall trend with prisoners here is getting worse. In D.C., the police arrest roughly 25,000 people a year. Eighteen thousand of those people go through the jail. Obviously, poorer and African-American communities are disproportionately affected. These areas are so heavily policed that it is hard not to get arrested. My favorite statistic is that D.C. sends more people to prison for violations of the terms of their parole than for felonies. That means that more people go to jail for not actually committing a crime than for committing a crime, which is ridiculous. If we had control over our parole system, that would cut down on thousands of people going to jail. But, there doesn't seem to be a real interest in addressing these problems.
"Parole is another big issue in the District. When D.C. switched from local to federal control, the U.S. Parole Commission took over control of parole in the District from the D.C. Board of Parole. As a result, hundreds of D.C. prisoners were denied parole because they were now being assessed by different guidelines. When D.C. was in control, a parole board could not take into account your crime, unless it was particularly heinous, when deciding on parole. The parole decision was to be made based on your conduct in jail and your rehabilitation. In the last year, we worked with a number of law firms to release somewhere between 400 and 500 people denied fair access to a parole hearing.
"Hopefully, the more people who visit prisons and understand the horrible conditions in some of these places, the more they will become sympathetic to prisoners' rights. The people in these prisons are not all monsters. However, many people view them as less than human, which opens the door to do all kinds of terrible things to them. Now, a prisoner can be placed in segregation, which could mean being alone in a sensory deprivation cell with almost no human contact whatsoever for months or years. That is not a humane way to treat people. While they are criminals, that doesn't mean that we can overlook their basic rights.


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College Hockey:Boston College tabs Ayers as Eagles' new assistant coach
Mike Ayers, former goaltending coach at USA Hockey's National Team Development Program and goalie at New Hampshire from 2000-2004, has been named the new assistant coach at Boston College.
Ayers replaces former associate head coach Mike Cavanaugh, who left BC for the head coaching job at Connecticut.
Ayers coached with the NTDP from 2011-13 and is also the coordinator of the Warren Strelow National Goaltending Mentor Program.
Before his time with the NTDP, Ayers spent two seasons (2009-11) as the goaltending coach at St. Cloud State and in 2008-09, he served as goaltending coach for the Iowa Chops, which was then the American Hockey League affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks.
At UNH, Ayers earned USA Hockey College Player of the Year honors in 2003 as well as AHCA All-America Second Team honors. Over 102 games with the Wildcats, he went 58-25-12.
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From March 7-15, the sounds of rumbling engines and sights of high and low tech motorcycles will take over the mean streets of Daytona Beach as the 2014 edition of Daytona 200 Week brings thrilling motorcycle events and endless entertainment to the "World Center of Racing."
On the Daytona International Speedway backstretch, motorcycle enthusiasts can take the hottest motorcycles for a test ride with free manufacturer demo rides that will be located off of Midway Blvd. Traditionally held along the frontstretch, the demo rides have moved to the backstretch due to the ongoing DAYTONA Rising construction. Bike fans may enter at Gate 70 off Midway Blvd. via motorcycle or car. A tram will also be running continuously from the Midway in Turn 4 to the demo ride area for those on foot. Riders must have a DOT-approved helmet and motorcycle endorsement on their driver's license to participate in the free demo riders from March 7-15. Among the participating manufacturer on the backstretch are Indian, Kawasaki, Spyder, Suzuki, Victory and Yamaha. Harley-Davidson will continue running demo riders from their tradition location at the corner of Richard Petty Blvd. and Midway Blvd.
Inside the Midway, motorcycle enthusiasts will find a one-stop shopping destination that has everything from the nation's top motorcycle parts to Hot Leathers fashion, the Official Bike Week Apparel and Accessories Provider for the Daytona International Speedway.
Located in the Midway outside Turn 4, K and G Cycles Thunder Alley is Bike Week's hottest hangout. Cool down with a Budweiser and great food or heat things up with entertainment, games and contests.
Check out the hottest styles in motorcycle apparel at the Hot Leathers Fashion Show located in K and G Cycles Thunder Alley located outside of Turn 4 on Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m. Following the Hot Leathers Fashion Show will be the annual bikini contest.
Hit Daytona International Speedway's 3.56-mile road course on your own bike during the ninth annual Spring Dash. The ride of a lifetime runs on March 15 immediately after the Daytona 200 (approx. 4 p.m.). Tickets are $30 per bike. Professional photographs are available.
Of course, the Bike Week activities extend well beyond the borders of the Daytona International Speedway. Everything from poker runs, bike shows, swap meets, and even coleslaw and chocolate syrup wrestling are on tap for visitors willing to take part in some of the revelry surrounding the Daytona 200. There are also other races off-site that take the sport of motorcycle racing to the extreme. For more information on the activities off the track during Daytona 200 Week, visit the Daytona International Speedway website or call 1-800-PITSHOP. You can also stay up to date during Daytona 200 Week by following Daytona International Speedway on Facebook and Twitter and by using hashtags #DAYTONASX, #DAYTONAFLATTRACK and #DAYTONA200.
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Do Women Really Need to Lean In?
What's the idea behind Lean In?
Women are still really far from having our share of leadership roles. I wrote this book to try to give women practical suggestions for what they can do to achieve their goals.
Such as?
Sit at the table. Don't hold yourself back from taking a leadership position—lean in to your career and your ambition. Don't leave before you leave—which means don't scale back on your work or your ambitions in anticipation of having children. This is about believing that we can do anything, reach any goal we set out to reach for ourselves—both personally and professionally.
Isn't this easy for you to say? You've been criticized for being privileged and elite, and for blaming women—rather than the system—for failing to get ahead.
I don't hold myself out as a role model and I don't believe there's one answer for women, but I do believe that women in all circumstances face the same issues: We don't get paid as much as men, we tend to have more responsibility at home, we don't want to raise our voices to get what we deserve.
Still, one critic called you a "PowerPoint Pied Piper in Prada ankle boots." Are you surprised by the negativity?
[Laughs] I thought long and hard before I spoke out for women. I had some of the same feelings others had: Who are you to give advice? But I was really worried about what I saw in the workforce, as women held themselves back.
You advise women to look for partners at home who are truly 50-50. Is that really how it works in your house?
It's true for me and Dave [Goldberg, her husband of almost nine years and the CEO of tech firm Survey Monkey, with whom she has two children, ages 5 and 7]. But it didn't start out that way, and it's not easy! And it's not 50-50 at any one moment; it ebbs and flows. Like a lot of women, I feel guilty about a lot of things. I drop my kids at school and see the mothers who are going to be there all day volunteering, and they are going to know more about what my child does than I do. I miss being with my kids and I feel bad about that. Dave drops the kids off at school and he feels fantastic that he dropped the kids off at school!
Along with her book, Sandberg (at an earlier job at the World Bank in 1991) has started a nonprofit, leanin.org, to help women share life lessons and get online executive coaching.
Sandberg at home with her husband, whom she calls a "true partner."
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The group came together in Melbourne, Australia. The lyrics to their songs are in Hindi, Bengali and English and each of the members of the group writes their songs. Their stage names reflect their playful nature, featuring 'The Mysterious Lady', 'The Tiger', 'The Skipper', 'The Boatswain', ' The Railways Mogul', 'The Bandit Priest', 'The Leaping Shaman' 'The Jewel Thief', 'Chip Chase', 'Dr. Electrico', and 'The Kung Fu Dentist'.
Their debut album, 'You Me Bullets Love', released in May 2012 features eight originals and two very interesting remakes of some old Bollywood production numbers, released on Hope Street Recordings. It placed in the iTunes Best of 2012 and was #1 on the iTunes World Music charts. It placed The Bombay Royale squarely on the music map and has them leaving the critics watching with bated breath.
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We live at an amazing point in history. We live at a point where history can be changed and we can enter a golden age of liberty and freedom.
With so many challenges facing us, how is that possible?
Right now, even as we speak, we are seeing the death rattle of statism. Even as Barack Obama tries to push America down the road that results in poverty, tyranny and occasionally mass murder, we are seeing the death of statism everywhere.
In Europe, the first of the statist regimes are collapsing. In Greece and Spain, economic disaster is imminent. For anyone who has eyes to see and pays even a modicum of attention, the conclusions are obvious.
The statists have reached what I like to call the Thatcher point. They have run out of other people's money to spend. There are no other choices.
Both Greece and Spain are rapidly becoming failed states. They have spent themselves into poverty. They have created so many government dependencies they cannot all be satisfied and no one can pick the winners and losers among these dependencies.
Greece and Spain have one alternative left. That is an alternative that no one is talking about. Their alternative is freedom. The last option they have not explored is liberty.
Greece and Spain both have massive entitlement classes. They are going to have to offer the entitlement classes something other than welfare. What they have to offer them is the free market.
The only thing that will save Greece and Spain is a radical turn towards free markets. They must literally tear down their governments, create new governments, virtually eliminate taxes and entitlement payments and offer their citizens something they do not currently have.
American statism is in equally bad shape. California is the poster child for American statism. California has the highest taxes in the nation and even that cannot satisfy their massive demand for even more tax money. California is soon hitting the Thatcher point.
California is, for the most part, a one party state. The Democrats control everything. There are a few isolated pockets that still send Republicans to Sacramento but they are few and far between. Under the radical leftist leadership of the far left Democrat Party, taxes have been raised and raised to the point where they can no longer be raised. California is $16 billion in the hole. The California statist government is growing and intruding more and more into people's lives.
Unlike Jerry Brown's old favorite nation, the former Soviet Union, citizens of California do have a choice. And many of them are voting with their feet. Most people who can leave are leaving. The productive members of the private sector are leaving. Those who remain are wealthy leftists, government workers and members of the entitlement classes.
California is America's Greece. Greece has repeatedly gone to the EU for bailouts. They have received them, but every time the EU has demanded that Greece change and become fiscally responsible. That has never happened.
It will never happen. Like the enabler for an addict, statist bailouts never solve the problem. They only postpone the day of reckoning.
If Barack Obama is somehow reelected this fall and if somehow, the Democrats end up in control of the House and Senate (yes, the chances of that are about as likely as Eric Holder honoring Darryl Issa's subpoena), California will have its chance to push back the day of reckoning.
If the Democrats control Washington in 2013, California will come calling for a bailout. No one has ever answered the question of who will bail America out when we hit our Thatcher point, as we will if Barack Obama remains in office.
California's solution is liberty. The problem is getting there. The only answer is to let California fail.
Only out of that failure will California address its financial problems. Only then can California tear down the failed government it has created and start over. California is the evidence we have in America that the welfare state is a failure and does not work.
Greece and most of statist Europe are going to fail.
Let statist California fail too.
Then we can open the door to liberty and freedom once again in the Golden State.
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California will have to address it's illegal population along with other issues soon.
well that is a positive look on things. Otherwise there is mass chaos, rioting and even more people clamoring for Gov't to save them.
Points for quoting Bill Murray. Otherwise, chaos is not yummy.
Include New York State In That Socialist Group! Pestilence Of America Are The DemocRat Run States!
Thanks, Judson, on The death of statism.
I've always held great belief in the Pendulum Effect, in both Grandfather clocks and politics.
An equal and opposite reaction. Both in Physics and, perhaps more importantly in Politics!
The American people have just had a refresher course in Socialism: 6 years of Congress and 4 years of Executive as well. They see the effects, and wish to reverse. We need to push the Pendulum hard to the right! Now is the time!
In physics, the pendulum stops due to gravitational effects.
And releases it's stored energy in the return swing. The sum of all the energies in the system is a constant.
This assumes that the swing is not sufficient to break the system!
At some point, the analogy fails. We need to push hard...to the right!
The promises of politicians (mostly, but not all, Democrats) have led too many Americans to expect that governments will somehow use magical powers to provide for their wishes without any of us having to do any heavy lifting.
I searched the internet to find what I thought would be the appropriate word or phrase to describe that expectation. The word that I settled on was "thaumaturgic".
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From there, I contend that our political system--especially that of California--could be characterized as being a "thaumaturgitocracy"--A nation whose people expect their governments to be able to use special supernatural powers which enable governments to do things that the rest of us mere mortal humans just aren't capable of doing.
After all, the laws of physics are the primary controlling principles for everything that happens on the planet we live on as well as the universe that we live in. That includes those, mostly poorly understood, disciplines that we have named economics and finance. All cost is created when an amount of energy of some kind, the energy of people included, is used and dissipated. Money was invented by mankind to provide a medium of exchange whose purpose is to facilitate and enable the movement of cost from place to place to place. And Congress just doesn't get to legislatively amend and modify the laws of physics--regardless of expectations.
And buried in that is the explanation for why socialistic systems must fail and why socialistic nations will not and cannot persevere. When the cost of today's social benefits is run through governments, dumped out and added to the operating costs of the producing enterprises who are in the process of trying to produce, distribute and sell those things that will be "provided" by governments tomorrow then the price paid tomorrow must reflect today's costs that have been added to the system. And here we go loop-ta-loop. Hidey-hi and hidey-ho.
The First law of thermodynamics is hardly quaint. Analogy to swings in political systems is perhaps a bit novel, however...
Freesom is the only option? I think not. Onama has another option,it is called tyranny with guess who as the dictator.. What say you Vern ?
Absolutely correct, Debrajoe! We are spending a huge chunk of money dealing with illegals, mostly the cost of incarcerating the murderers, rapists, gangbangers and thieves who pour over our border. Then there's the welfare cost, education expenses and miscellaneous other costs. I ain't gonna go into the high speed rail fiasco moonbeam is still trying to push down our throats.
Right on Dave!!
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STANFORD, Calif. – Erik Olson and Jessica Tonn won the individual races and led Stanford to a sweep of the men's and women's team titles at the 40th annual Stanford Invitational cross country meet on Saturday at Stanford Golf Course.
The Stanford men extended their team winning streak at the meet to 19 and the women won for the 10th consecutive year. It also was the second Stanford sweep in as many meets this season, after capturing the USF Invitational on Aug. 31.
Olson became the first Stanford male, other than two-time champ Chris Derrick, to win since 2006. Olson and Jim Rosa finished virtually tied, in 24:25 over the 8-kilometer course, though Olson was awarded the victory.
In scoring against the other 11 NCAA Division I teams, and not including the 15 non-D-I teams in the race, Stanford scored 25 points to runner-up Loyola Marymount's 50.
For the women, Tonn and Aisling Cuffe ran side by side to finish 1-2 in 21:00 over the 6-kilometer course. Tonn, a senior, earned her first collegiate invitational victory.
Chris Miltenberg, Stanford's Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field, used the meet as an evaluation tool. None of his freshmen, men or women, competed in a Stanford uniform, but ran unattached.
Miltenberg will decide whether to bring some onto the squad this season or redshirt them. One freshman who made a strong case was Sean McGorty, who was fifth overall (23:42) and would have been Stanford's No. 4 runner.
Among the women, former Los Gatos High standout Danielle Katz was the top freshman, finishing 11th (21:47) and would have been Stanford's No. 4 runner.
For Stanford's next race, at the Pre-Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind., on Oct. 19, Miltenberg will assemble teams that should more closely resemble the ones the Cardinal will field for the postseason.


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I bought this bag for my trip to Australia last year, to mostly hold my camera and laptop while on the plane. I used this all the time during our trip and found it really useful for everyday fun and outings. It carried all my gear, Canon Rebel T3i, two lenses, charger, flash, strap, and filters with ease. Tons of pockets and doubled as a 15.4" laptop carrier too. Very useful and very rugged. I loved it!!
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This is a great bag. Probably the nicest camera bag I have owned. The flaws are minor. It has a great amount of space and is incredibly well built. It also comes with a decent rain cover. The only drawbacks where that the bag really doesn't have enough room in the camera compartment for a full size professional DSLR like a Canon 1Ds. I ended up having to put mine in the top compartment which is less than ideal. Also the dividers are stitched to really only have 1 configuration. This doesn't allow for me to adjust them to different size lenses. The last thing is the lack of a waist belt. For a bag this big designed to carry this much gear there really is no reason it should not have a padded waist belt. None of these things were enough to make me go down a star but I hope NatGeo takes this into consideration for a rev or the design for the next set of camera bags.
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I love this bag. I own at least a dozen bags and this one takes the cake.I carry a dslr with grip with a 18-135mm lens attached, a 75-300mm lens, a 50mm lens, an external drive, all of my tripod gear, maps, gps, flash, remotes, memory cards, batteries for everything...the list goes on and on.`This bag can be customized for just about anything you may need and the number, and variety, of pockets allows for prioritization of gear while keeping everything secure.I have dragged this bag through all sorts of nastiness in northern BC and it has taken everything that was thrown at it...sticks, thorns, rocks, wind, rain...all of it.My only concern is that this is a nice bag with the NG logo on it so it is a potential target for the criminal element...keep an eye on it. :)
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So happy with mine!
By Zed
from Ohio
About Me Pro Photographer
I own this bag and the explorer shoulder medium bag as well.I am beyond happy with both. I use my backpack for long hiking trips where the equipment is best packed in the backpack. The shoulder model I use for most all other transport of my photographic equipment. I like that the backpack has a computer area as this was a deciding factor for my choice. I looked forever to find a style of bags that fit my taste and the explorer series is spot on with what I like. The functionality is wonderful and the quality of construction, while it is not as durable as a leather bag, the hemp is pretty strong. Padding is there for your camera and lenses, not pillowie soft but similar to what you will find in any other camera bag. Closed cell foam. I successfully carry these items in this bag:-Canon EOS 7D with grip-17-50 f/2.8-70-200 f/2.8 L-8-16 f/4.5-(2) 580EX2 flashes-15.4" laptop-extra batteries and parts and accessories-Manfrotto tripod attached to exterior with draw strapsI have done some minor modifying to mine to strengthen and customize both of my bags. If not for the original design and quality and color and materials of these bags, I would still be looking. I am very, very happy with their products and both my bags.


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Stephen Michael McKinney
Position: C-G
Height: 6-4 Weight: 300 lbs.
Born: October 15, 1975 in Galveston, TX
High School: Clear Lake
College: Texas A&M (school history)
Drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 4th round (93rd overall) of the 1998 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 56 (1130th overall since 1950)
Relatives: Brother of Seth McKinney


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Do you keep a journal? A diary? A list?
Tuck Away Those Magical Moments
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I am also keeping a daily journal for my Bible reading and devotional. It's been my habit after I graduated from the Operation Solid Life intensive training in our church.ReplyDelete
Great post by the way.
Cassy from Guitar Made Easy
I have been doing this for the last 8 years (blogger for 3? ). It is great to look back. I have posts from my daughter's 12th birthday...ReplyDelete
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Beautiful Places
Todd Griswold
Some landscape photography featuring scenery from Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, California, Arizona, and Arkansas. This book is 13x11 inches.
I have been involved in the sport of skydiving for 15 years. I have been working in the sport for about 13 years. Picked up some photography skills and started shooting landscapes during my skydive travels.
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Beautiful Places
Publicado 14 de noviembre de 2012
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timeless memory lane
2006 - a year to remember
Tracy D. Endo
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Marvin Vann - Second Edition
Published December 08, 2009
A Precious Life
Published November 01, 2009
Tracy Endo Photography
Published October 16, 2009
Celebrating 50 Years of Life and Love!
Published March 16, 2009
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With the holidays approaching, the season of giving is upon us. The old saying that "the more you give, the more you get" has certainly been true in my experience. I grew up in a family of business people who valued volunteerism and being involved with the communities in which we live and work. As I look at every branch of my family tree, I realize the impact each person has had, leaving the world a little better than they found it. Everyone is busy, overwhelmed with too many commitments and too little time.
The real question is how to spend the precious time we each have in ways that are meaningful and fulfilling. As a business owner, the most important commodity we have is our time. It is in such short supply but all work and no balance is a sure recipe for disaster. So if giving back is part of your belief system and you are looking to get more involved, where and how do you start when you don't have much free time away from running your business?
Joining a Board is a great ways to have an impact. Share your knowledge, your contacts, and your experience with organizations that can benefit from them. Many non profits for example have boards or committees to help them grow. Whether your business skills are in finance, development, marketing, operations, sales or strategy, I am certain there are local organizations that would really appreciate and benefit from whatever time you can give them. Schools also use their boards to help them address many important issues. Look around your community and see where your business talents can help others. Volunteering strengthens your reputation as a committed business leader and increases your exposure to potential customers. Fellow board members get to observe how you think and solve problems and if they like what they see they'll come back to you for more and tell their networks about your business as well.
Speak Up -- Your area of expertise may be intuitive to you but there are many organizations that could benefit from hearing about it. Local chambers of commerce, trade associations, conferences, groups, schools, and non profits are always looking for inspiring speakers for their events. Business people always have great stories to tell. Think about topics you know well and determine whether you could put together a 30 minute or hour long workshop to share some of those hard earned lessons you have picked up along the way building your company. I love the saying "to learn, read; to know, write; to master, teach." Everybody has something they can teach I believe, so share your gift with others. I speak at local events regularly and often people in the audience will come up after and tell me about problems their companies are having and ask if I could come by and meet their CEO or President to share some of the ideas I had discussed in my talk. Being an invited expert into a company is a great way to make an introduction to the decision makers so turn your business skills into a talk.
Become a Mentor -- Think of all the people who helped you along the way with good advice, helpful contacts and words of wisdom. The best way to thank them for their efforts is to do the same thing for the next generation. Almost every high school, college, and association has events around career development, so the next time someone asks if you have time to come by and talk about how your career got started, make the time to be available. It is important for young people to realize there is no one path to business success, we all begin from a different place. We make different choices and yet end up working with people who took a completely different career route. Let them know there are lots of ways to get there from here and no one secret to happiness.
Make every day matter and do something, one thing extraordinary every day. The ricochet effect touching even one person in a meaningful way creates endless possibilities. Speak to a child, smile as you pass a stranger, hold the door open for a person who looks like they might need some help, give your seat to an elderly person on the train or bus, it creates good karma in the world and a positive cycle for everyone any of those people encounter that day. Try it for one week, I think you'll see a difference. I find when you do something good for someone else, it gives you power, control and hope. Like Gandhi said, you must be the change you want to see in the world. It starts with you!
One of the boards that I sit on had a meeting recently and one of the outgoing board members talked about what a privilege it was to serve on the board with such an amazing group of people. I couldn't agree more, I've met some incredible people by getting involved in organizations I care deeply about. People I may have never met otherwise even though we are passionate about some of the same causes. But what brought us together is that we raised our hands and got involved even though we were busy running our companies. We showed up. That's it. And you know what the bonus is to all of this…I have gotten new customers for my business through these relationships! In business, when you put yourself out there with people you connect with for a variety of reasons, good things just happen. You meet great people, you feel good about yourself for helping others, and sometimes you may even get a new customer along the way.
Like the old commercial for Life cereal says…try it, you'll like it!
When you give a little you get a lot back in return!
This article was written by Paige Arnof-Fenn. To get more great advice from Womens Toolbox [3] Media Diva Paige Arnof-Fenn, visit her website at: http://www.mavensandmoguls.com/ [4]


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Michael Paravyno's efforts to find a permanent East Bay home for his Birdland Jazzista Social Club have seemingly come to fruition. Here's some of the background, as noted in a recent Chronicle piece.
Founded in 2010, Berkeley Birdland started as gatherings of Parayno and a few friends to eat Filipino barbecue and listen to jazz. Over the next two years, it morphed into weekend concerts held in Parayno's garage. Parayno handed out barbecue to his friends as well as strangers drawn to the music from the North Berkeley BART station across the street. He also charged a door fee to pay his musicians for one-night gigs – and according to musicians, he paid well.
Birdland's good times quickly ran into trouble. Over the years, Parayno amassed several fines for allegedly obstructing the sidewalk with his shows and for serving free food to the public without a permit. Parayno said he eventually owed the city $40,000.
That turned out to be a tiny road bump in Parayno's plans. He took a sojourn from Berkeley in 2012 to set up Birdland workshops in Manila, Bangkok and Jakarta, creating a global franchise founded on music and barbecue.
When Parayno returned to the Bay Area this year to set up a home base, he immediately set his eyes on Oakland – specifically Longfellow, a blighted neighborhood with strong historical roots in the African American community.
Forced to shutter the Berkeley location, Paravyno announced this spring he was searching for a spot in Oakland. And, I am happy to report, Birdland Oakland has taken root at 4318 Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
While its website speaks of a late-August "grand opening," be aware that there's music on the schedule already. Friday night, you can check out the double bill of GG Amos Blues Band and James Smalls, while on Saturday it is Citizens Jazz and guests including by bassist Caroline Chung, along with the Brian Juarez Jazz Trio.
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A Harley burial took place this week, and while one motorcycle-loving man's last request may have been a strange one, it was nonetheless honored by his family. Billy Standley had asked his loved ones to bury him with an item that he said kept him feeling young, happy, and courageous throughout his life: a blue 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle. Web Pro News shares this Friday, Jan. 29, 2014, that Vernon Funeral Homes Inc. worked hard to accommodate a see-through box and casket that would showcase both the deceased man and his prized ride on the way to the gravesite.
The Harley burial was something that Pete Standley, the son of Billy, said his father would have been so very proud of and grateful for as his final "ride." He added that his father was a good man over the years, and the family felt they owed it to him to respect his last request. Nothing less would do.
"He'd done right by us all these years, and at least we could see he goes out the way he wanted to," Pete Standley noted in terms to the very unique funeral of his deceased father. Billy's body was carefully placed on top of a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle inside a see-through box and above the movable casket.
As seen in the above photo, Standley can be seen driving proudly even as a dead man with his beloved 1967 Electra Glida. His family had him wearing a black leather outfit, smooth-fitting glasses, and his favorite white helmet for the Harley burial. Some of the 82-year-old man's last words were said to be his wishes to "ride off to heaven" with his 'cycle. The clear box and casket were additional touches the family felt were necessary for this special drive.
Billy Standley was said to have passed away this year due to the advanced stages of lung cancer. A man born and raised in Ohio, he was laid to his final resting place this Friday, Jan. 24, followed by friends, family, and other loved ones in an outside funeral procession.
The press release on this unique Harley burial adds that this wasn't simply a last-minute wish, either, but something that the now dead man had specifically gone over with his family years and years in advance, asking that they would let him go out driving and honor his "last wish."
"Prior to his death, Standley anticipated the thought of knowing that his family and friends would someday see him fixed on one of his most prized possessions. An 18-year-long burial idea, which then manifested into an actual project, set in the garage of his home for five years. Standley's two sons, Pete and Roy, helped build the Plexiglas casket made of wood and steel. The family noted that he was very proud of his customized casket and used to show it off to visiting guests."
"He was a quirky man," daughter Dorothy Brown admitted to a local news source, crying and smiling. "But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted to help him."
It was Vernon Funeral Homes Inc. that worked to make this special burial process possible. They revealed that this was their very first excessive personalization, but they were happy to be able to accommodate the Stanley family, adding that officials were able to modify the grave's overall dimensions so that it would be able to fit the casket, Harley Davidson motorcycle, and its deceased driver.
Talk about going out in style.
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