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In the middle of his time trial in the Cascade Cycling Classic on July 17, Dillon Caldwell was pushing himself harder than he had ever pushed himself before. He blocked out thoughts of all he had been through over the past five years, being diagnosed with a brain tumor and the three subsequent surgeries that almost derailed his studies and his cycling career.
As he pushed his body to its limits, he could think only of his friend, Gary Bonacker, who had been taken to the hospital just minutes after Caldwell left him the day before.
For months Caldwell had taken advice and inspiration from Bonacker and his own struggles to overcome a brain tumor. Now, in one of the biggest races of his life, Caldwell once again looked to Bonacker for help.
"I just recalled thinking, whatever happens today, Gary is working harder at St. Charles today," he said. "And that was really powerful for me."
Caldwell's inspired performance that day punctuated what has been a surprisingly quick recovery, ending a five-year roller coaster ride since his diagnosis. Along the way he has impressed many with his maturity and positive outlook, and has turned what could have been a devastating development into an opportunity to help others facing a similar course.
Caldwell, now 24, was born in Bend to avid cyclists Dan and Louise Caldwell.
"We were a cycling family," his mother said. "His dad was always racing. I was the one who took him out on the mountain bike trails because his dad would not slow down enough."
By age 9, however, Dillon was faster than his mother, and soon followed in his father's tread marks. When Dillon was 10, he competed in the kids' race in the Cascade Cycling Classic. The race was being paced by an adult rider, and Dillon quickly opened up a huge lead over the rest of the kids. With only the pace rider anywhere near him, he powered on to victory, telling his parents, "I even beat the grown-up guy who was right behind me!," his mother recalls. "We didn't tell him any different, that the guy wasn't racing him. Dillon always thought he was going to win."
One year, they bought Dillon a raffle ticket for a new bike. "We kept seeing the bike around at different events and every time we'd see it, Dillon would say, 'Oh, there's my bike,'" Louise said. "I was ready for him to be in tears when they drew the name of the raffle winner."
But sure enough, they drew the name of the winner and it was Dillon.
He looked over at his mother and said, "See, Mom. I told you so."
The family would take camping trips to the mountain bike races that Dan, and eventually Dillon, entered. Two years in a row, Dillon and his father won the state championships for their age groups.
When he graduated from Summit High, he left for the University of Oregon to study journalism. But by the end of his first term in 2008, he started waking up with headaches. He wrote them off as stress from finals, but the pain persisted. He began to suspect that something was seriously wrong.
Near the end of the winter break, in January 2009, he slipped on his steep driveway in his ski boots. His skis cut a gash in his forehead as he fell backward. He mentioned his headaches to the doctor stitching up the wound and was sent for an MRI the same day.
That evening, as Dillon gathered with his family in a downtown restaurant for a farewell dinner before returning to school, his phone rang. The doctor at Bend Memorial Clinic wanted to see him immediately to discuss his MRI.
"On the way over, we knew something was up," Dillon recalls. "He didn't give me details, but I knew it was bad."
In the dark lobby of the building, the doctor told them the MRI showed a small brain tumor, measuring 12 millimeters by 15 millimeters, with a 4 centimeter cyst growing out of it.
His mother broke down immediately.
"I totally lost it," she said. "I was screaming and hysterical because I thought he was going to die."
Dillon was quiet, almost relieved because he had suspected something was wrong all along. Now at least he knew what it was.
First surgeries
It was a ganglioglioma, a rare tumor that originates in the nerve cells of the brain. It accounts for less than 1 percent of all brain tumors. It was deep in his cerebellum, down by the brain stem, close to a group of cell bodies, called nuclei, crucial to balance and motor function.
"Your cerebellum is what makes us athletes," said Dr. Kent Yundt, the neurosurgeon who would operate on Dillon that day. "Everything that's coming into the cerebellum is connected in those nuclei and that tumor was right in that area. It's not an area that you want to go searching for things."
If the tumor had entered those nuclei, or if they were damaged by surgery to remove it, Dillon would never ride a bike again. Yundt had to tread carefully, trying to distinguish what was tumor and what was healthy brain tissue. He was unable to get all of the tumor in the first surgery. Dillon would need a second operation three months later.
Recovery was slow and difficult. He was discharged walking with canes. It took months for him to resume a normal life.
Dillon returned to the University of Oregon in the fall and joined the cycling club at the school. But MRIs over the years showed the tumor was still there, and still growing. He would need a third surgery, possibly his last chance to get the tumor out of his head.
During the summer after his sophomore year, Dillon traveled to the University of California, San Francisco, where Dr. Mitchel Berger would conduct the procedure. The night before the surgery, he got a final scan to map out the location of the tumor.
But just as the anesthesiologist was preparing to put him under, Berger came rushing in. The tumor had shrunk in size.
It was Dillon's choice, he said, whether to continue with the procedure, but it didn't have to be done that day. He opted to wait, giving himself time to finish school and continue his cycling.
"So instead of going in for surgery that morning, we ended up in a diner stuffing our faces with bacon," Dillon said. "It freed me up to go back to life as it was."
He finished his final two years of school, completing a degree in philosophy, a precursor to going to law school. He became president of the cycling club and fell in love with road racing.
At least for a while, life was normal again. After graduation, his plans to jump back into racing hit a road bump. MRIs showed the tumor growing again. While he had time, a third surgery loomed in the future. Every six months, the news was different. It was up and down, it was growing, it was shrinking.
"It was super draining," he said. "I felt like I had been able to make such a great comeback… (It) taught me that it just doesn't end. It's part of the deal. It's who I am."
The thought loomed that he might not ever be cured, that he might not be able to pursue competitive cycling. In the fall of 2013, Berger told him his situation was not an emergency, he could wait several months before the surgery. He decided to take some time to relish all the things important to him: his family, his friends, his cycling.
Over the four months, "(I) lived, just lived," Dillon said.
His family had just moved into a new house in Shevlin Park, and Dillon rode his mountain bike through the local trails. His aunt sent him a plane ticket to go riding in Tuscon, Arizona, with a friend. "I put in the biggest week of my life on the bike, 400 miles in a couple of days, mountain biking every day," he said. He had confidence in his surgeon and believed everything would come out alright. But in the back of his mind, the worst case scenarios lingered.
"For the first couple of weeks, I was a little bit depressed and in a tough place with it," he said. "But then I started to reach out to friends more and more, and realized what an opportunity I had. I had the opportunity to (relive) the summer after graduation that I didn't really get to enjoy during that part of the year. And so it turned out great."
Support system
As Dillon struggled through his surgeries and the recoveries, he began to lean more on an old family friend. For years, his family had frequented Sunnyside Sports for their cycling gear and had come to know the owner quite well. Bonacker was a former bike racer himself. But like Dillon, he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and has gone through surgeries and chemotherapy treatments.
The two hit it off immediately, with Bonacker offering his younger counterpart some much needed perspective.
"It always sounds like a Hallmark card, but you need to take what you used to see as your life several months down the road, several years down the road, and look at just this Wednesday, and then Thursday, and the next day," he told Dillon. "And do something not just for yourself, but for other people as well."
Bonacker helped Dillon come to grips with the frustration and anger about his condition, and helped him to refocus his energies on the things most important to him.
"When you first find out you have cancer or whatever it is, any huge medical problem really, your initial feeling is that you're alone with it all, and why is this happening to me?" Dillon said. "When you finally realize you're not alone with it, and there's so many positive things you can do, then it all turns around. And Gary more than anything helped me with that realization."
Dillon scheduled his final surgery with Dr. Berger in January. Again the family made the trek down to the Bay Area and prepared for another prolonged recovery.
"When I saw him in the ICU, right away it was evident he was going to be fine," his mother said. "He was so wide awake and happy. Everything was amazing."
Moreover, the post-operative MRI showed them a picture they had never seen before.
"It was clear for the first time," Dillon said. "That was the most beautiful thing, the most beautiful picture of my brain that I had ever seen."
Louise now refers to it as the clean slate.
"We knew whatever was going to go on, the doctor was so confident that he got it all, that we were going to be able to put this behind us after five years of this roller coaster," she said. "The sad thing for Dillon was he couldn't go forward with his life until we got this resolved."
Berger said Dillon's prognosis is excellent.
"My goal one way or another is to cure him," he said. "And we may have to jump through a few more hoops to do that in his lifetime."
He will continue to have regular scans of his brain every six months to ensure the tumor has not grown back.
The club
But this time there would be no canes or months of recuperating on the couch after the surgery. Doctors told Dillon he couldn't go back to cycling or other athletic pursuits for another three months, but he got back to being himself almost immediately. Only a large triangular-shaped patch shaved in the back of his head gave any hint of what he had been through.
"Anybody who's had a craniotomy — I call them cranies — we all have that similar thing in common: that there was a guy with his fingers in your head. And he ended up with a kind of cool, inverted V on the back of his head. It looked cool," Bonacker said. "It's a weird club to belong to, but you definitely don't want to be the only member."
Bonacker has mobilized that club around the Tour des Chutes, a fundraising bike ride that for the past 10 years has raised money to help cancer survivors. This year, the board of directors held a retreat to consider where to take the event over the next decade. With two board members retiring, they asked Dillon to join the board.
Dillon had already pledged to help organize the volunteers for the ride and market the event through social media. As Bonacker's health has waned, he's relied more on others to help organize the event, and seems ready to pass the torch on to the next generation.
"He adores Dillon," said Leslie Cogswell, executive director of the Tour des Chutes. "He kind of sees Dillon as the new face of Tour des Chutes."
Board members say Dillon brings youth to the board, but it is his maturity that has made the biggest impression on them.
"He just has a huge heart for life," Cogswell said. "He chooses to live life no matter what it throws at him."
Lizzi Katz, community education and survivorship coordinator for the St. Charles Health System, has known the Caldwell family for years, but has gotten to know Dillon even closer through his volunteer work with cancer survivors.
"I think that his perspective from his own experience gave him some wisdom that's unnatural for someone his age," she said. "I think a lot of people his age finish that experience and they just want to retreat from it. And he's embraced it in a way that's just really impressive."
His mother agrees.
"It's made him grow up really fast," she said. "He now wants to do the things that he really enjoys. He was driven to be a success in academics. Now he's having so much success on the bicycle. In a way, it's changed his whole career path."
Back in the saddle
Dillon got back on the bike for the first time on April 1, three months after his surgery. He and a friend went out to ride the trails at Horse Butte.
"It was great. It was amazing, the best thing ever," Dillon said, throwing out superlatives that couldn't begin to describe the feeling.
Over the next three months, he continued both mountain biking and road cycling, before entering his first competitive race this year, the Baker City Cycling Classic at the end of June. He finished 11th in the time trial and 31st in the road race. It was an impressive showing six months after brain surgery, with only three months of training.
He then finished second overall in his category in the High Desert Omnium in Bend over the July Fourth weekend.
"I had won that the year before," he said. "But second place this year was even better."
The next weekend he rode 100 miles with friends and family in the Tour des Chutes.
Later that week, Dillon met with Bonacker and Cogswell for coffee, a day before he would race in the Cascade Cycling Classic, perhaps the premier cycling event in Central Oregon. They chatted for an hour and planned to meet down the street at Sunnyside, where Dillon wanted the bike mechanic to check out a wheel before the big race.
As the mechanic spun the wheel round, Dillon heard him stop it suddenly. The sounds of sirens told Dillon what was happening. Bonacker had had a seizure while riding his bike down the alley toward the store.
"I know when he collapses, the last thing he wants is someone to see that happen," Dillon said. "I'm kind of torn sitting there in the shop. I don't want to go out and witness it. I know there's people there taking care of him already. He doesn't need more people in the way."
The paramedics took Bonacker to the hospital and Dillon went home.
The next day, Dillon went out to Prineville for the time trial with thoughts of Bonacker lingering his head. As he pushed harder and harder though the race, trying to overcome his lack of training, he drew strength from his old friend.
"I was going, 'I know Gary is working harder than this right now,' and that inspired me to push a little harder," he said.
Dillon tied for first in the event. "I definitely attribute the win to that."
His time would have been good enough for 64th among the pro racers that day. "That's pretty outstanding," he said. "I guess I have a chance."
The early success has Dillon rethinking his immediate future.
"I had big aspirations for 2014, and last fall, I was no longer thinking that was realistic. I'll go back to school or start my career earlier," he said. "Now that it has come back so quickly, I'm already looking forward to next season, pushing my limits and racing more and more."
He still plans to go to law school eventually, and hopes to work protecting the environment. But this year, he'd like to catch on as a guest rider with a cycling team and see how far he can push his career.
However far he goes, Bonacker, the former racer, will likely be his biggest fan.
"Dillon, depending on where he wants to put his efforts, could be a couple of notches above where I was for sure," Bonacker said. "I think Dillon's smart in that I know he's thinking of academics also. He's not just going to be strictly a cyclist, but he is talented and it will be interesting to see how far he can go."
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Enterprise Patterns: A Look At Application Service
By David Bernal on June 23rd, 2008
Today we're going to talk about PHP enterprise patterns and all the fun they bring to the party. We'll get into front controllers and take a close look at MVC as well.
Towns, Buildings, Construction
So let's talk about patterns. Specifically, I'd like to talk about the MVC architecture pattern, and some thoughts I've had recently regarding its application. Let's first clear the air a bit, make sure everyone is limber, and define our terms. It may be unknown to some that the seminal work in patterns, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, was actually about architecture (the kind with buildings) and urban planning, not software design. One of the key observations the author makes in the book is that many cities which are laid out in a practical and attractive manner follow a similar pattern, which was varied depending on the exact situation. This is exactly how patterns in software architecture work; Patterns are elegant solutions to common problems that are flexible enough to be applied to differing scenarios.
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Lincoln Parks and Recreation was recently awarded a $10,000 grant by the National Recreation and Park Association's (NRPA) Grow Your Park program to support the Department's Community Youth Garden initiative. Lincoln elementary school children work daily in gardens located at all City Recreation Centers.
Lincoln Parks and Recreation is one of 10 agencies in the nation to receive the 2011 Grow Your Park award. Funds will help establish a new youth garden site, refurbish several older ones and provide needed tools and seeds as well as composting and rain collection containers.
"The Community Youth Garden program teaches young people the process from soil preparation to harvest, helping them make the garden-to-table connection and introducing them to fresh vegetables," said Sandy Myers, Recreation Manager for Lincoln Parks and Rec. "The youth sell a small portion of the produce at farmers markets to learn entrepreneurial skills. They also take some home to their families, many of whom are low-income, minority or new Americans." Each summer, the program also sponsors a large food drive, encouraging adult backyard gardeners to donate any excess produce to the Food Bank of Lincoln.
Now in its second year, NRPA's Grow Your Park program supports park and recreation agencies in creating and expanding community garden operations and activities, with a goal of increasing participation among children and teens. The grants are made possible through a gift from the J.R. Albert Foundation.
"The 2011 Grow Your Park program provides a creative way for young people to grow, both in the garden and in the community," said Barbara Tulipane, CEO of NRPA. "We congratulate our 2011 Grow Your Park grantees, whose programs will contribute to a healthy sense of self, good nutrition and a connection to the outdoors for our nation's youth."
For more information on the Community Youth Gardens, contact Sandy Myers at 402-441-8261.


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KPMG'S 2016 Global CEO Outlook examines how CEOs are responding to shifting operating environments by nurturing innovation. Today's corporate leaders are considering ways to enable faster internal change and embed innovative capabilities in their organizations.
Based on responses to KPMG's 2016 Global CEO Outlook survey, the pace of change continues to accelerate. Almost half of CEOs (41 percent) anticipate that their companies will be significantly transformed over the next 3 years. That's up from 2015, when just 29 percent of CEOs thought so.
Of those CEOs who expect revenue growth of 10 percent or higher, a majority (51 percent) believe that their company will have transformed into a significantly different entity in the next 3 years. This contrasts with only 38 percent of CEOS projecting less than 10 percent revenue growth believe their company will be significantly transformed into a different entity in the next 3 years.
What does it take to execute change in a fast-changing environment? Our survey respondents highlighted a number of strategies they are pursuing to drive change and spark innovation.
Become agile. Agility is key, and yet today just 40 percent of organizations are highly capable of responding quickly to developments, according to the KPMG survey.
The best way to deliver faster, according to 43 percent of CEOs, is by streamlining internal processes.
Join forces. The speed, breadth and depth of change require unique skills, cutting-edge technologies and forward-thinking minds. That is why CEOs turns to collaboration to ensure the company stays ahead in all areas.
Collaboration is the top way CEOs plan to derive shareholder value over the next 3 years. Collaborative arrangements are also the top type of deal that CEOs are planning to undertake over the next 3 years.
"This is going to be a new type of cooperation," says Mark Goodburn, Global Head of Advisory, KPMG International. "CEOs are expected to manage the new ecosystem: shareholders, partners, customers, communities they operate in or regulators. While some of these stakeholders are not new, the depth and intensity of relationships that they have with companies will continue to increase."
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Now, a sketch has been released of the person police are looking for. The suspect is in his 20's, about 6 feet tall.
The hate crimes task force is investigating the attack on Randy Gener, a Filipino-American editor, writer, and artist.
"Please Lord Jesus, heal my friend, heal my husband, heal my partner, and bring him back to all of us," said Stephen Nisbet, the victim's husband.
Using their voices and raising their hands, relatives and community members prayed for Randy Gener's speedy recovery on Monday night.
On January 17, he was attacked in Midtown, a block away from his apartment. He had just left a party around 4 a.m. and was on his way home near 54th and 7th Avenue - that is where he crossed paths with his attackers who beat him and left him for dead in the street.
Gener's family and friends also held a vigil Sunday at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street, and they are asking for the public's help in finding his attacker.
After the attack, police were called, and Gener was found unconscious in a pool of his own blood with his head bashed in.
Gener suffered severe head trauma and is currently in intensive care recovering from brain surgery at St. Luke's Hospital. He's listed in serious but stable condition.
"I'm very privileged to have come from massaging my husband to sleep. He's been there for 10 days flat on his back," Nisbet said.
"He can't answer the questions of what happened that night, he doesn't really exactly know who we are or where he's at sometimes," said Gener's sister, Jessica Blair Driessler, "and it's really painful to see him here the way that he is because he's the most articulate person."
Gener is a widely respected and recognized writer who has reported for the New York Times, the New York Daily News and other major publications. The beating may have robbed him of his brilliance.
"Over the past year, several gay men have not only been attacked, but murdered," said friend Kevin Nadal. For now, they want two things: for Gener to fully recover and for someone to come forward.
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Sextortion at Eisenhower High
Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time
stop being a wuss, x told himself. x was only 15, and he didn't know a lot about girls, but he did know this:
If you wanted to get with a girl like Kayla, you couldn't be a wuss.
She IM'd him again.
will u send it? she asked.
Yes. He would. X pulled down his pants.
When he was ready, he pointed the camera, snapped a picture, and sent it.
omg, Kayla wrote. u r so hot.
now its yr turn, he wrote.
A minute later, Kayla sent a picture: shirt up, no bra, with the head cropped out.
Fuck, X thought. That's hot. Even her screen name was sexy. Kayla's Facebook page said she was a junior, and though he'd never actually met her, you couldn't know every girl in a school with 1,200 kids. The night before, Kayla friended him with a message saying she always saw him in the hall and wanted to say hi, but she was too shy.
Now she was asking for another picture.
ok, he typed. 1 minute.
X looked in the mirror and fled. He pointed the camera, snapped, then checked the shot. Nah. He could do better.
He turned, fled again, and snapped a few more. He picked the best one, cropped it, and sent it.
She loved it. Totally loved it.
Okay, now it was her turn. He wanted to see her face and body together, too.
sorry, she wrote, too embarrassed. :- She'd make it up to him, though. That was a promise.*
kids call New Berlin Eisenhower middle and high school "Ike," and they call the town of New Berlin "the Bubble," because, they say, as teenagers in suburbs everywhere say: "Nothing ever happens here." On the map, New Berlin forms a neat six-by-six-mile square in the southeast corner of Waukesha County, which prides itself on being one of the most politically conservative of Wisconsin's seventy-two counties. Most of the town's 39,000 residents are middle-class professionals, remnants of Milwaukee's white flight in the 1960s and '70s or descendants of local farming families. The New Berlin school system's self-fulfilling motto is "Expect Excellence." And last year, Eisenhower's varsity girls' softball and boys' basketball teams won state championships, the Academic Decathlon team placed third in the state, and the valedictorian went to Harvard.
This past winter, Ike's good name was befouled by a story of serial sexual extortion among its student body. An 18-year-old senior named Anthony Stancl allegedly posed as a flirtatious female on Facebook to lure Ike boys into sending naked pictures of themselves. According to the police, at least thirty-one of them did just that, and Stancl amassed a collection of explicit pictures and videos that he used as leverage in a game of sexual blackmail that eventually landed him in jail.
The week after Stancl's arrest, The New York Times ran a story about the case, headlined sex predator accusations shake a wisconsin town. In it an Eisenhower mother was quoted as saying, "It was beyond what the kids could imagine, you know? They see a lot of things, they go to the theater and everything else, but this is so shocking." Like most people in town, she sees Eisenhower as a bastion of innocents, blindsided by a monster among them. Certainly, that's the most comforting way to look at it.
at 12:40 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, two frightened Eisenhower students told a teacher, who told the principal, that they had seen the phrase bomb 11/14/08 written on the wall above a urinal in a downstairs boys' bathroom. The principal, Michael Fesenmaier, had dealt with bomb threats before, but not during his four years at Ike.
By the following afternoon, authorities had found no sign of a bomb and no solid clues as to the source of the threat. In his office, Fesenmaier had corralled a few known troublemakers in an attempt to get them to confess to vandalizing the bathroom wall. Midway through one interrogation, Fesenmaier was interrupted, and when he turned around he was surprised to see Tony Stancl.
A stooped boy of five feet eleven, Tony was a familiar figure in the school's front office. The previous year, he worked there part-time, and people thought he was pleasant enough, if kind of lazy. He was prone to officiousness, but even for him this drop-by was pushing it.
"Mr. Fesenmaier," he said sternly, "what are you doing to protect us?"
Fesenmaier assured him, "I've got it under control," and turned back around.
Rebuffed, Tony shuffled into the hall and pulled out his BlackBerry. It was against school rules to use your cell phone in the building, but Tony had been surreptitiously Twittering about the bomb threat ever since school started that morning:
7:28 a.m. School is like prison now. No one is allowed in the halls unless they are supervised.… Cops are in the hallways too.
9:04 a.m. Update: school is officially on lock down. I hate being suppressed.
1:28 p.m. Maybe we will have off tomorrow since the "bomb" is suppose to go off tomorrow…
That afternoon he walked out of the building and got in his crappy green Civic. There were times when he wished he still had his old car—a blue Audi A4 he'd kept wad and spotless. He'd sold it the previous spring and planned to use the proceeds to do something constructive: He wanted to go to Peru that summer to build houses for the poor. He might have imagined the trip as a kind of homecoming—Tony and his sister, Stephanie, were adopted as babies from an orphanage in Lima—but his parents told him the trip was too dangerous. Instead, he bought a forty-two-inch plasma TV that he hung in his bedroom in the Stancls' effusively gabled home in Country Estates, one of New Berlin's grandest developments. Tony could be arrogant about his family's wealth. He signed e-mails "Tony $" or "To$y," and on his MySpace profile he wrote, "Some people consider me rich, but i don't like that saying, i prefer 'financially fortunate' lol."
Physically, Tony was less fortunate. Whereas his sister was a jock—she played on Ike's basketball and softball teams—Tony's most striking feature was his disproportionately large head. His efforts to connect with girls were awkward at best. "He would try to flirt with you and it would be, like, creepy," says a girl who graduated in the class ahead of Tony's. "He would say things that would bring the conversation to a total stop, and you'd look at him and wonder, What was that about?" The closest he got to sports was Academic Decathlon, where he was the team's history whiz. He was also treasurer of the Eisenhower chapter of SADD, which stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions. As part of SADD, Tony did seat-belt checks on the long row of cars driving out of Ike's parking lot after school. He stood with a New Berlin cop, stopping each vehicle to offer a friendly reminder to buckle up.
Tony reveled in following rules, and he loved ingratiating himself with adults. He was often the only person his age at Milwaukee high-tech-industry mirs (he had an after-school job as a software engineer), where he would arrive early to set up tables and chairs and he'd charm the grown-ups in the group with his deliberately precocious social skills. "He has a personality that can magnetize with people," says a 29-year-old software developer who knew Tony well. "He can tell them what they want to hear in a way that's perfect for networking."
Last summer, Tony organized New Berlin campaign volunteers for Obama. When school began in the fall, he started telling kids, "I work for Barack Obama." Everybody rolled their eyes. They were used to Tony's outlandish name-dropping: The year before, he had a relative who knew Dick Cheney. Sometimes, when they'd had enough of Tony's big talk, kids would shout "Cody Banks!"—referencing the kids' movie about an average suburban teen who led a double life as a CIA agent—swallowing the name in a cough, the way high school jocks hack into their fists when they yell "Faggot!"
Bobby (not his real name) got a certain pleasure from watching Tony get hassled. Bobby, who was a year ahead of Tony at Eisenhower, never hid the fact that he was gay and so took his share of shit in the hallways. Tony was always ready to pile on. He'd been harassing Bobby since junior high, chasing him through school and calling him a fag. Other times, Tony showed a wary fascination with Bobby. Where Tony was serious, a consummate brownnoser, Bobby was funny, flamboyant, and tough in the way that the only openly gay kid in a midwestern high school has to be. Bobby also had something else Tony would never have: a reliable posse of friends, including some of the coolest girls in Ike's "alternative" crowd.
One spring night in 2008, Bobby was chilling in his bedroom with a bunch of his girlfriends. Out of nowhere, Tony sent Bobby an IM: what r u doing?
That was weird, Bobby thought. He and Tony were not friends. Why would Tony IM him?
just hanging out in my bedroom, Bobby wrote back.
Tony answered, sounds like fun ;)
Bobby always figured Tony was a closet case, but now he was sure of it. He showed the girls the screen. At first they couldn't believe their eyes; then somebody squealed and they all cracked up: "Oh, my God! Tony Stancl's gay!"
Then Bobby let the girls take the keyboard. They crowded around the screen and read each IM out loud, rehearsing what to say next, the whole group pitching in to keep up Bobby's chat with Tony. Then, after stringing him along awhile, making him think Bobby was into him, the girls finally gave Tony what he was waiting for: an invitation to come hang out in Bobby's room.
Tony said he'd be right over.
Then the girls gave him a fake address.
The next time they saw Tony Stancl in the hall, the girls whispered about what an ass he was, delighting at the thought of him ringing some random doorbell, all hot to get in Bobby's pants—only to find out he'd been tricked.
The rumor spread like blood in water: Tony Stancl's gay.
Bobby loved hearing people say that. But did he ever feel any sympathy for what Tony was going through? "Are you kidding?" Bobby says. "Karma's a bitch."
According to Ike's popular girls, the gay rumors ruined Tony's already shaky image. "None of the boys in our friend group," one says, tossing her blond peekaboo bangs, "would talk to Tony after that."
Tony would never be popular, but he'd earned some grudging respect for being smart and mature, and for being the kind of geek who wasn't afraid to put himself out there. Now he was practically an outcast. By the time school started in the fall, Tony's stock had dropped so low that all he could do was count the days until he could get out of town. Maybe he'd join the Marines (his favorite uncle was a Marine), or go to UW in Madison, or start a Web company and make some money right away. On the first day of classes, he Twittered, sigh back at school. time for senior year. Graduation seemed a million years away.
a former college wrestler once nicknamed the Rhino, Paul Kreutzer is a pugnacious, compact man who at 25 became the youngest high school principal in Wisconsin and at 29 the state's youngest superintendent. Every morning, Kreutzer snaps his cuff links into place, adjusts his double-Windsor tie knot, and checks the shine of his Kenneth Cole shoes. Though he's been superintendent of New Berlin's schools for almost two years, he habitually mispronounces the town's name—it's New Ber-lin, not New Ber-lin—but he's less out of touch than students think. On the screen of Kreutzer's iPhone, a Bible application sits next to a beer-pong game.
In recent years, Ike has suffered a string of petty embarrassments that were magnified online: Their head football coach was suspended after a video showing him shoving a student on a rival team was posted on YouTube; the next year, a cell-phone picture of the JV football team urinating on an opponent's field ended up on the sports site Deadspin.com. (Kreutzer says he declined "Dr. Phil" McGraw's offer to come to New Berlin to help the school "process.") Then Kreutzer had his own brush with YouTube fame when a group of Ike boys set up a living room suite in his driveway—and recorded the fit he threw ("What the fuck are you kids doing?!") when he caught them in the act.
Still, Kreutzer sees computers as a force for good in his students' lives, and all that fall he'd been channeling his personal ambition into making Ike a national model of innovation. For months, Kreutzer had been working to persuade AT&T that Ike should be chosen as the pilot school for their mobile-learning initiative, which would provide every student with an Apple iPhone or iPod touch loaded with educational applications. If Kreutzer landed that program, New Berlin would be on the fast track for the future, and he would be the envy of every superintendent in the country.
That prospect briefly crossed his mind on November 13 as he was trying to decide with Principal Fesenmaier whether to cancel school the next day, Friday the fourteenth—the date named in the bomb threat. Fesenmaier's interrogations were a bust, police had zero evidence of explosives, and they wondered if the threat was idle.
Then, at five forty-three, Kreutzer, Principal Fesenmaier, and an Eisenhower science teacher simultaneously received an e-mail from an unfamiliar address:
Good luck tomorrow. Boom. It won't be your average one either. It will be one that is manned. Not by me, but by those who follow me. New Berlin Eisenhower High School.
They canceled school.
The next day, after a bomb unit swept the building, Kreutzer went out for lunch at Stir Crazy, an Asian restaurant at the Brookfield Square mall. He was taking the first bite of his pot stickers when his cell phone rang.
The cops. They had some news. The e-mail had been traced to an IP address at the New Berlin public library, where an employee saw an Eisenhower student at the computer around the time the message was sent. According to police, the student, a senior named Anthony Stancl, had confessed to sending the e-mail.
And why wouldn't he confess? As he told police, he'd done everyone a favor. He'd saved lives. He sent the e-mail because he didn't think the bomb threat (which he insisted he didn't make) was being taken seriously. He sent the e-mail "to make it a better story." If anything, the police should be grateful.
Police questioned him for the bomb threat and released him without making his name public. But soon the whole school knew about it via Facebook. The news brought shock and relief. (Tony was suspended, and would later be expelled.) Everyone enjoyed a long weekend and returned to school on Monday determined to get back to normal.
Then Kreutzer's phone rang again. The cops again. There was more.
where is she? he wondered. All through school the next day, X kept looking for Kayla in the halls, but he never saw her. Then he ran into a buddy, and they hung out between classes. The friend told him that the night before, he'd been chatting on Facebook with Emily, a girl they both recognized from school. He told X that Emily came on strong about sex, talking dirty. Even her screen name was sexy. When he told X Emily's screen name, it hit him like a punch in the stomach.
It was the same as Kayla's.
X didn't say anything, but he couldn't stop thinking: Then who's Kayla?
The next time Kayla texted him, X sent a message back saying he didn't know who she was, that another girl was using that same screen name, so she must be some kind of fake. He did not want to hear from her again.
A few minutes later, his phone lit up. I don't know if I would say that, Kayla wrote, because I have those pictures of you, and you don't want me to send those out.
X freaked. Was she psycho? He read the text again. Then he really started to panic.
Kayla sent another message. She said not to worry, she wouldn't really send out those pictures, under one condition: He had to let her friend Tony suck him off.
_What…? Tony? Who's Tony? This girl, whoever she was, was insane. He tried to ignore her, but she kept texting, kept taunting: _It's your choice. Make a decision.
What the hell was he supposed to do?
Everyone knew what happened to pictures like these. He could not believe how stupid he'd been. If this girl sent his pictures around, his life would be over.
He didn't know what to do, and now Kayla was pressuring him to decide. Letting those pictures out was not an option.
_Then he got a text from Tony, who talked him into meeting at the public library. _
It was going to be okay, Tony said. If they did this, Kayla would delete the pictures.
X went to the library, and he and Tony went into the men's room and into a stall. Tony got down on his knees. X looked down and saw that Tony was holding a camera. What the fuck?
It's okay, Tony told him. Kayla just has to see proof.
For a couple of days, X thought he was in the clear. Finally, it was over. He'd learned his lesson. Now please let him move on.
Then he got another text. This one from Tony. Bad news. He messed up. He deleted those pictures from the library by mistake. Kayla still needed proof. She wanted them to do it again.
He deleted them? That dumbshit! X thought his head was going to explode. He wanted to tell him off, but he couldn't risk it. So X agreed. He would meet Tony a few days later, before school started, in the downstairs boys' bathroom at Ike.
They did it again, and Tony took another picture. They were finished. He texted Kayla, told her he'd met her conditions—and even let Tony take the pictures to prove it. This was the end. He was done.
Then Kayla got scarier. She texted back that that picture was not good enough. Oral was not good enough. She wanted to see more. She wanted Tony to put it inside him, and if he didn't let that happen, she was going to send the pictures to all his friends.
Now X was more trapped than ever. It was getting worse. Fast. This was so far out there he felt totally lost.
So a few days later, he let Tony come over to his house, and they went to his bedroom, and Tony took a picture of them doing that, too. But even that didn't make it stop. Kayla said they had to do it again—so he let Tony come into his bedroom to do it again.
Then Tony asked X to take naked pictures of his brother—and that pushed X to a line he would not cross. He turned around and did the only thing he'd never done with Kayla, or with Tony.
Finally, he refused.*
at the very same time New Berlin cops were questioning Tony Stancl about the bomb threat, X walked into the police department with his own story to tell.
Police continued to interview Tony, only now their focus was on the sexual allegations. On November 17, the police asked to examine his cell phone and computer. Tony was permitted to return home unaccompanied (he didn't want his parents to know about the investigation) so he could retrieve his cell-phone memory card and laptop and turn them over to the police for a forensic evaluation.
The next day, he returned to the police station to drop off his written statement, and while he was there he asked for his computer back. The officer told him it would take a week. Tony wondered if he'd ever get it back. The officer assured him he would, "as long as no child pornography…was discovered during the examination."
"There shouldn't be any child porn on it," Tony replied.
What the police say they found was a collection of more than 300 nude images and masturbation videos of Eisenhower boys, all as meticulously organized as a lepidopterist's box. Dozens of folders were individually labeled with the first and last names of students who ranged in age from 13 to 18. Police say the computer also contained records of IM exchanges conducted under at least three pseudonyms: As Kayla (a wholly fictional identity) or one of two Emilys (both Eisenhower students, one of whom considered Tony a close friend), Tony flirted with more than four dozen boys in New Berlin. Of that group of roughly fifty boys, thirty-nine sent pictures of themselves at least partially undressed. Thirty-one of them sent pictures that police deemed "sexually explicit."
A few boys who chatted with an "Emily" now say they wondered if it was really her. One boy says that "Emily" messaged him on Facebook last spring, and she flirted so aggressively—requesting naked pictures within ten minutes of chatting—that he decided to ignore her. Other boys persuaded "Emily" to send her picture first, but when they saw them, they thought the proportions of the body in the picture were different from those of the real girl they'd seen at school.
One of the real Emilys was perpled. In study hall one day, she finally had to say to a group of boys, "What the heck are you guys looking at?" One replied, "I heard you sent a naked picture of yourself."
Between fall of 2007, when police say Tony's female personae started chatting with these boys, and his final conquests in November of 2008, Tony allegedly winnowed the group of thirty-one, threatening roughly half of them with public exposure if they did not have sex with him. Of the boys Tony threatened, at least seven of them agreed to his demands.
through november, December, and January, every time police knocked on another door in New Berlin, they wondered what they would hear next. Two of the boys who said they met Tony for sex were 15 years old, three were 16, one was 17, and one was 18 at the time of the encounters. The meetings took place in their houses, in the Ike parking lot, in subdivisions under construction, and in public parks—including one directly behind the police station.
Until the time of the bomb threat, when X was finally compelled to tell police what happened between him and Tony, not one single boy in New Berlin breathed a word of Tony's extortions. Apparently, every boy that had sex with Tony had kept it secret. But now the confessions were piling up. Police alerted the superintendent and principal (without disclosing the victims' names), and as the scale of the allegations grew, security at Ike tightened.
Immediately after the bomb threat, the school hired round-the-clock armed guards. During winter break, security cameras were installed. Boys' restroom doors were propped open during the school day and locked after the last bell. All volunteers at school events, including parents, had to undergo background checks. At first kids thought the crackdown was about the bomb threat. Then, as cops questioned more boys, word leaked out. Remember when Emily was asking for everybody's pictures? That wasn't Emily. That was really Tony Stancl.…
Tony was exceptionally cooperative with the police. He would meet detectives at Starbucks to tell them what he had done. He expressed remorse and told police that he was bisexual and that he was uncomfortable approaching boys he was interested in at school. He said the year before had been difficult and that he'd been teased by students who thought he was gay.
When police asked Tony about the story X had told them, according to the criminal complaint, Tony "initially claimed that 'Kayla' was not him, but was a friend of his." Eventually, though, Tony admitted that he had created the online persona of "Kayla," tricked the boy into sending pictures, and threatened him as he'd described.
Finally, on February 2, Waukesha district attorney Brad Schimel announced at a press conference, broadcast live by Milwaukee's NBC affiliate, that Tony Stancl had been arrested and jailed on twelve felony charges, including possession of child pornography and sexual assault. If convicted on all counts, he would face up to 293 years in prison.
immediately, Ike's rumor mill went into a frenzy. Wired magazine posted the criminal complaint against Stancl on its Web site, and kids downloaded the document, which identified the victims by their initials and dates of birth. Then the kids went to Facebook and searched the Eisenhower network by plugging in birth dates. Within minutes they had a full list of the names of the alleged victims, which made the story even more incredible. These were not wayward, damaged boys. They were athletes. Leaders. Popular, college-bound, bright-futured kids. Boys so unimpeachably straight that there was no way you could imagine them doing the things they were supposed to have done with Tony Stancl.
Everyone wondered, How could these boys let this happen?
At the courthouse, a middle-aged secretary in the clerk's office said, "When I was in high school, boys like Tony Stancl got the crap beaten out of them. Why didn't they beat the crap out of him?"
Another secretary said, "Maybe he was a cool kid."
The first secretary raised her eyebrows and touched her heavy gray turtleneck. "I saw his picture," she responded, "and he does not look cool to me."
Furious at the exposure of their sons' identities, the parents of the seven boys now collectively known as "the victims" demanded an explanation from the D.A. How had their sons' names been made public? The answer to that question, and to so many questions about this case, was that the Web has changed everything. To protect a defendant's constitutional rights, a criminal complaint must identify the victims. Traditionally, minors in Wisconsin have been ID'd with initials and birth dates, the D.A. says, "and we've always gotten away with it because no one ever comes down to the courthouse to get a copy of the criminal complaint." (At the D.A.'s request, Wired.com later redacted the victims' initials and birth dates.)
In other ways, too, this case was unlike most high school sex scandals. When boys are seduced by female teachers or a group of kids get caught getting naked at a Holiday Inn, envy adds some sting to the public outrage. The Stancl case was perhaps more horrifying because these boys were seduced by another boy—and because it triggered parents' preexisting fears about their kids' vulnerability to the predators they knew were lurking online.
During the previous year, law-enforcement officials in at least fifteen states formally investigated teenagers for incidents of so-called sexting. (Kids use the word only when contemptuously quoting adults.) But none of those stories seemed as sordid as what happened at Eisenhower. Moreover, the incident drew even more attention than it might have, because Tony was arrested the day after MySpace announced that it had banished 90,000 registered sex offenders from its network and piously called on Facebook to follow its lead. For talk radio, blogs, and op-ed writers, the Stancl case became the most lurid example so far of the worst possible outcome of teenagers trading naked pictures online.
Local leaders used the language of predatory terror to describe the case. The D.A. called Stancl's scheme "sinister" and "malicious." A respected columnist at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel suggested that true justice would come when Tony was turned over to the ultimate sex predators, prison rapists: "Has Stancl pondered the possibility his cellmates will have some schemes of their own to spring on him?"
In New Berlin, the hysteria spiraled. Two hundred parents crowded Eisenhower's auditorium for a seminar on cybersafety the week after Tony's arrest. (The school held a similar seminar the week before the arrest; two parents came to that one.) Asked to name the second-most traumatic thing that had happened at the school, the principal stared blankly and halfheartedly mumbled about a teacher who died of cancer the previous year. Asked the same question, Ike's head counselor thought for a while and then remembered a season of suicides in the 1980s. Seven people died, she thought, maybe eight.
After agonizing over whether to talk about the case to GQ, one school employee finally justified the decision by saying, "This may ruin my career, but if I can help save just one more kid from getting ass-raped, it will be worth it."
Inside the superintendant's office in Ike's boxy 1969 brick building, two deep lines furrowed on the bridge of Kreutzer's nose when he scrunched his forehead. He asked, "Is this the Columbine of texting?"
new berlin's kids are weathering the deluge a bit differently.
A 17-year-old female student said, "It's kinda like, you know, people will say, 'Everybody must be so devastated. The school must be so, like, ridiculous.' But, like, I don't feel any difference at all."
Some who were more closely touched by Tony's actions seem astonishingly casual about the experience. A senior boy said that he was talking with some friends about what Tony did. At the end of the conversation, one of the guys leaned over and confided, "I sent Tony naked pictures of myself."
Did that guy seem upset? I asked.
Did he say anything else?
What was the expression on his face?
"Just normal."
It just seems odd that he would make that confession without any emotion, without saying how he felt about what happened.
There was a very long pause, as if the boy was trying to translate his thought from one language into another. Eventually he blurted, "It would not be very much like a teenage boy to say how he was feeling."
Even the core group of Tony's seven alleged sexual-assault victims are, by most accounts, coping well, though a number of them are in counseling. Many of those who did not have girlfriends before November have girlfriends now. As one senior boy explained, "It's understandable. After something like this, most people would get a girlfriend to make themselves feel better. They may not be thinking they are proving a point, but naturally they do."
The kids' resilience raises what may be the most disturbing implication of what happened here: The phenomenon of teens trading naked pictures with one another is something they at least think they can deal with.
Brad Schimel, Waukesha County D.A., says he hopes the Stancl case will be "a two-by-four upside the head to parents," encouraging them to get involved in their children's lives online. Tony, whose lawyer declined to comment on the case, pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment in March. At press time, a trial date had not been set. None of the seven alleged victims indicate any willingness to take the stand, though, and Schimel would like to avoid making them testify. Most people in New Berlin would probably prefer a plea bargain to a trial. Says Michael Fesenmaier, "We just want to get back to normal."
But what does normal even look like anymore? The Stancl case, extreme as it is, offers an unsettling answer: What happened here is shocking because it was not all that shocking. In the beginning, when Kayla and Emily asked these boys for naked pictures, the majority of them thought little of saying yes. This exchange was within the range of what kids—lots of kids—consider normal. Online, a boy chats with a girl he's never met. Pants go down. Pictures are sent. And a chain of unpredictable, unknowable consequences is set in motion.
Whatever else he may be, Tony Stancl is an opportunist. He rode the big wave that more and more kids ride, out to a place where every flesh-and-blood kid is also a phantom, where adolescence isn't so lonely, where you don't have to wonder, Isn't there anybody who wants what I want? In this world, no IM goes unanswered—and for every teenager who types the question will u send it?, there is another typing, Yes.
*Scene re-created based on court filings and police reports.
michael joseph gross is working on a book about love and technology.


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A catch, a stammer in his voice in that interview was perhaps the first sign of the dementia that would soon begin to devour him. Three years later, he fell and broke his hip. He never left the hospital after that. Increasingly eroded by senility, he lived another four years. The towering Kelly Johnson of legend faded slowly away; he died on December 21, 1990. He was buried in the foothills south of Burbank Airport, where his career began. There he sleeps, and the jets wheel overhead.
Peter Garrison's last feature on legendary engineers was about Richard Whitcomb (June/July 2002).


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Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Civilization IV
If you are unfamiliar with the game, it is a bit hard to explain how complicated it is. In essence, you build a civilization from 4000 BC until the present. In that time, you try to beat other civilizations (and barbarians) by expanding your territory, waging war, entering into trade alliances, discovering new technologies, colonizing another world, etc. There are lots of ways to win or lose. I usually play the Romans but I have enjoyed good games as the Egyptians, Chinese, and Americans.
The official description of the game reads, "Civilization IV is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now the fun and incredibly addictive strategy game reaches new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization. Civilization comes to life like never before in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world -- with all-new easy to use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options. It's a must-have for gamers around the world! Flexible Tech Tree allows players more strategic choices for developing their civilizations Team play offers a new way of setting locked alliances that result in shared wonder effects, visibility, unit trading and shared territory. Over 70 in-game movies and animated sequences advance the story."
One neat twist of the new version is control over religions. You can be the founding civilization of one of six great religions. You can also send out missionaries and build religion specific wonders. This is how in my first game in I played the Aztecs and had them as a Hindu nation. Not historically accurate but fun anyway...Particularly when Islamic Germany declared a war against me forcing me learn the new battle rules quickly!
If you like history and like PC gaming, give this game a look. Be prepared to say good bye to you family and friends for awhile. It also might be wise to go on vacation for a week or two...
3 comments:
- Moses said...
AHMEN! I mean really, some people say Civ sucks, how could they say that? I play a lot too and its one of the best games out there. It's their opinion I suppose, but a bad one at that.
Agree with moses. Truly one of the best games of all time. It was freat from version 1.
- Erik the Swede said...
Yes, Civ has been one of the greatest games ever since Civ 1. It is also a fun way to learn about history.
Civ IV is great. My only complaint is that it runs a bit slow when your civilization becomes large. Does any one have any pointers to speed it up?


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This year saw a lot of innovation, but coming out of all the trade shows, blogs, and our own meetings, there are a few things that really stand out and have us all kinds of excited for 2014. But these are just our thoughts – post a comment below with what cycling gear or rides you're most pumped to try out in the new year!
1. Disc brakes on road bikes: we've had a chance to play around with these a little bit lately, and we're excited about the performance advantages we've seen so far. Hopefully, we'll see more manufacturers offer a bigger range of bikes with disc brakes.
2. 1×11 drivetrains for MTB: Who knew that losing a front derailleur could be an improvement? OK, so many folks have already gone down this path of simplicity, but the improved gearing range of 1×11 makes it a possibility for almost any mountain biker. They've proven to be a reliable, durable and quiet – we can't wait to see it come stock on even more bikes. SRAM's XX1 and (more affordable) X01 systems are the only one's available right now, but you can go part way towards this system with a 'narrow-wide' single front chainring to ditch the front derailleur on your current bike.
3. Hydraulic brakes for the road: The unfortunate SRAM recall aside, we're excited about the potential for improved braking power. The idea is there, and the applications and benefits are obvious, it just looks like it needs more refining. We've been using the TRP HY/RD mechanically actuated hydraulic system the last few weeks, and are pretty impressed, so we're looking forward to more innovation in 2014.
4. SRAM electronic drivetrains: Hey, we're suckers for new technology! Spotted at the Illinois State CX Championships, it looks like SRAM is finally set to introduce an electronic shifting system to compete with the tried and true systems from Shimano and Campagnolo. Since SRAM seems to like names like "New Red" and "New Red 22", anyone want to venture a guess about the product name? Click here to learn more from Bike Radar.
5. 27.5" wheels: 27.5″ (aka 650B) wheels on mountain bikes were huge this year, and we bet that next year they'll gain even more prominence as more folks upgrade their rides. As a mountain biker you owe it to yourself to test out one of these 'in-between' bikes if you're in the market for a new off-road steed – they really do combine some of the best traits of a nimble 26″ bike and a roll-over-anything 29er.
6. Giro Air Attack Shield helmets (black, size medium): Literally the only thing on my Christmas list and I didn't get one. Hopefully one will find it's way to me in 2014. They make a great Valentine's Day gift (and that's a science fact, you guys). But seriously – aero bikes, components and gear will continue to make inroads into more every day rides. It's free speed with very little trade-off when it comes to weight or comfort.
7. New power meter designs: The Garmin Vector and our new completely awesome, formerly super secret wheel project are making power readouts more accessible to cyclists, improving the way we ride and train. Hopefully, the designs will continue to get more affordable and easier to install.
8. Fat bikes: Fat bikes are the new fixies, but more fun. Want to experience a trail in a new way? Power through snow? Roll over boulders like it ain't no thang? Then you need a fat bike – if you have never tried one, then you'll be blown away by how much fun they are!
9. Some exciting new stuff added to our bike and clothing lineups: We've got some awesome new stuff getting ready to fill up our bike inventory, including some exciting new brands. We can't say what yet, but we're really excited. And our clothing team is hard at work improving our already amazing high-value Performance brand apparel – we think you're going to like what you see!
10. More great rides with friends: Whether it's a lunch time hammerfest with coworkers at the office, an epic Gran Fondo, a ride with the family, or a leisurely weekend excursion with your best riding buddy – we're here for the ride, and we hope that 2014 brings all of us even more great adventures on 2 wheels!


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I am now learning induction problems in representation theory. I know David Vogan's book cohomological induction and unitary representation theory might be good references,but it is too thick.
I wonder whether there is some good and detailed notes on using derived functor to construct irreducible representations. It seems that Zuckermann ever gave a series of talks at Yale to introduce this method, but unfortunately, it was not published.
It seems that this method was motivated by Schmid's phd thesis. But I did not have schmid's phd thesis either.
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College students graduating this year will feel the effects of the economic crisis in the job market. A survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that employers plan to increase their college hiring by just 1.3 percent this year over 2008, the least in six years. Take a look at which degrees have the most drawing power in the job market, according to the NACE.
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The research study Mosquito Control market in Asia-Pacific presents an in-depth survey of different market insights such current market needs, threats, opportunities, Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control current market announcements, technological developments and allied improvements of the Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market over the forecast period from 2018 to 2023. This research study typically covers decisive sections of Mosquito Control market such as product price, production, capacity, the ratio of supply to demand, market profit, capacity utilization, and growth rate. Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market breakdown according to types of products manufactured, applications, Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control manufacturers and different sub-regions in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India and Australia..
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Research conducted in Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control report accomplishes both qualitative and quantitative analysis of market along with certain appraisal tools, forthcoming facets, Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market key opportunities, market segmentation followed by sub-segmentation based on applications, and Mosquito Control forecasts. Usage of various tools such as fascinating assets and market arrangements of top leading players of Mosquito Control Asia-Pacific will grant them to take decisive actions.
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Market segmentation of Mosquito Control market in Asia-Pacific comprises of:
Key manufacturers of Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market:
Central Life Sciences, MGK, UPL, Univar, Clarke, Bayer Environmental Science, Kadant GranTek, AllPro Vector, Valent BioSciences, BASF, Summit Chemical (AMVAC), Westham and Babolna-Bio
Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market especially focuses on sales, production and high-tech advancements:
in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India and Australia.
Segment by types of Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market:
Segment by Various applications of Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market:
The report Mosquito Control market in Asia-Pacific provides a section-wise segmentation of various data points as follows:
Section 1: It starts with a product introduction, definition, Mosquito Control product overview, market rundowns, analysis of market by countries, threats and opportunities;
Section 2 and 3: This section covers manufacturers analysis of Mosquito Control market along with revenue, volume, market share, for each geographical zone;
Section 4, 5 and 6: This section examines competitive situation of the top players, along with revenue, Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control growth rate by type and application, for the forecast period from 2018 to 2023;
Section 7, 8, 9 and 10: This section seeks Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control type and application, covering in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India and Australia., along with revenue, growth rate, sales, market share for the forecast period from 2018 to 2023;
Section 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15: It classifies the Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control market by raw material costs and manufacturing process along with sales and revenue, sourcing strategy and downstream end users from 2018 to 2023;
Section 16 and 17: This section typically covers all the traders, distributors, dealers, sales channel, data sources, research findings, Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control results, conclusions, and appendix;
The comprehensive study of the original market to provide changing situations and Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control driving factors of this industry. Alongside, the report inspects higher conveniences involved in the Asia-Pacific Mosquito Control industry that allows existing market players and new entrants to make fruitful market decisions also narrating past, present and future market trends to analyze Mosquito Control market value and market volume.


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On Town Meeting Day, the voters of the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union approved the creation of a unified union district. Last week, the unified union was overturned on a reconsideration vote in Vergennes. After Vergennes voters rejected the proposal, ANwSU Superintendent Tom O'Brien said that school consolidation would "be put to rest for a period of time in our district … it will hibernate for a while, if you will."
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My friend John once told the story of the worst thing that ever happened to him.
It was in World War II. He and 30 other young guys were in a boat off the coast of Norway, part of the Allies' effort to retake the country from the Germans. Norway was bitterly contested territory, a tough place to be.
John's boat landed in a cove. He and two of his buddies were ordered to go inland and reconnoiter the countryside. They armed themselves as heavily as they could and set off on foot to see what they could find.
From the garden and kitchen this spring we have two new favorite concoctions I have to share with you. The first, rhubarb oatmeal, we have eaten every morning for the past 10 days. It is so simple, and it is a pleasure to yield to cries of "Can we PLEASE have rhubarb oatmeal?!"
MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union teachers have agreed to a four-year contract that provides for some modest pay increases and slightly elevates their health care premium payments.
FERRISBURGH — Last Wednesday morning, some 100 students and adults wearing traditional cone-shaped hats stood ankle-deep in a flooded rice paddy pushing delicate yellow sprouts into the clay soil.
No, this wasn't a tableau from Southeast Asia — it was right here in Addison County at Ferrisburgh's Boundbrook Farm.
MIDDLEBURY — One of Middlebury's most active volunteers for child and teen causes is reducing that role in order to take on a leadership position within the legal community.
Emily Joselson, a local attorney, is stepping down from the boards of both the Addison County Parent-Child Center and Addison Central Teens (ACT) after a combined total of more than 35 years of service that saw seismic growth and change within those organizations.
MIDDLEBURY — The UD-3 school board last week began to discuss the concept of installing a turf field at Middlebury Union High School.
At the same May 17 meeting the board agreed to open the boys' and girls' ice hockey programs to a limited number of players from other schools.
School board members last Tuesday were told that a turf field at the high school would provide a more stable, weather-friendly surface for multiple MUHS sports teams.
FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment will soon gather to rule on another Champlain Oil Co. application for a Route 7 gas station, convenience store and fast-food restaurant, but both town and company officials expect that decision simply to set up a return to state Environmental Court.
On May 4 the zoning board held a brief hearing on a revised site plan from Champlain Oil (COCO), a South Burlington firm that runs a string of similar facilities in Vermont, including one at the junction of Routes 7 and 17 in New Haven.
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Countless bench races between BMW enthusiasts have highlighted the virtues of the different generations of M3. In fact, if we had a nickel for every time somebody claimed the E30 was the quintessential M3 platform, we'd be millionaires. Sure, it's slightly antiquated by modern standards, but purists believe it speaks to the driver unlike any M car since.
Proponents also believe it's blessed with a characterful personality lost in gizmo-laden vehicles, and that the E30 requires greater skill and respect to drive at the limit. In other words, the demands are high but so are the rewards.
Of course, we'd also be wealthy if we collected money every time somebody claimed the best M3 motor is the S54 3.2L straight-six from the E46 M3. Sure, the preceding in-line engines were gems, and the high-revving S65 V8 is amazing, but somehow, the S54 gets the most votes. Despite an exceptionally long stroke, the 3.2L could spin to 8000rpm and, in doing so, garnered a top ten spot in the highest stock piston speeds of all time!
How fast you ask? Try 4773.33 feet per minute. Many thus claim the S54 was the most highly tuned six BMW ever created and the quintessential BMW engine.
So what happens when you combine the E30 M3 chassis with the S54 straight six? Road-going nirvana, according to Ryan Gangemi.
"After building a high-compression S14 2.5L 16v four-cylinder stroker motor and enjoying it for six years, I was looking for more power while making the car even more unique. So I looked into an S54 swap, which was then relatively unheard of back in 2010," he told us.
Before the aficionados start choking, Gangemi is a diehard E30 fan and has owned no less than 25 different models, including three M3s. He's also a certified BMW master mechanic who owns his own Bimmer speed shop, Ryan Gangemi MotorWorks, or RGMW.
"I fell in love with the E30 M3 in college as soon as I saw the unique factory widebody," Gangemi said.
Up until that point he'd been a hardcore VW fan, owning a modded Jetta and Corrado before jumping ship to the BMW side. "I had a lot of fun with VWs but the BMW build quality is so much better and I instantly fell in love, " he continued.
He fell deep, receiving his Auto Tech degree and working at a local BMW dealership for seven years, eventually earning certification as a Master Tech. His zest would drive him to open his own shop, operating the BMW tuning and repair business for the last three years.
"My first E30 M3 was a red-on-black 1990 with 75000 miles that I loved but it was totaled," he explained. "The insurance payout led to this car in San Diego. I bought it from the second owner in stock condition with 109000 miles on the clock."
That was 11 years ago; a long time for an enthusiast to keep one car, but Gangemi is an E30 man to the core. "I started with a spring and shock combination before swapping the tired, stock motor for a lower mileage example," he added.
Like many E30 M3 drivers, he eventually spun a rod bearing and decided it was an opportune moment to up the ante in the form of a built 2.5L bottom-end sandwiched under the stock cylinder head and valvetrain.
Shortly afterwards he took the brave decision to fit 19" M3 CSL wheels. "Not long after buying the car I really wanted to push the envelope and run 19" wheels on an E30," Gangemi explained. "I knew it would be controversial but I took the time to properly roll, flare and paint the fenders for the perfect fit."
The modification put the car on the map. For better or worse, it gained him lots of attention and ignited his desire to dive deeper into the M3. "It encouraged me to modify the car beyond what I'd initially planned. Before long, I'd removed the cylinder head and built the top-end to match the 2.5L bottom-end," he said.
The tuned S14 was good for 205hp at the wheels thanks to a ported and polished head, Schrick cams and a modification that would soon become a Gangemi staple - a Markus carbon airbox.
The built four-banger was eager to rev but it just wasn't enough. Bitten by the tuning bug, Ryan set out to realize his vision of M perfection.
"I was very familiar with doing S52 swaps after completing dozens at my shop, but I wanted something more unique. And since the European S50B3 E36 M3 engine was scarce and expensive, the E46 M3 S54B52 was the likely candidate," he said. "At the time it wasn't a common swap and certainly proved difficult."
Back in 2010 people hadn't started modifying the E46 M3 wiring harness for the conversion, so Ryan decided to use a Typhoon standalone ECU from Specialist Components. It has since been replaced but at the time it was both affordable and had the ability to control the Vanos system.
"Prior to the Typhoon I ran my first S54 motor on the dyno with the Vanos locked but it melted a piston. I assumed the tune was wrong so ripped out the motor and built this second one with the standalone," Gangemi explained.
The new motor also received ceramic-coated Supersprint headers and a 3" mandrel-bent exhaust system with a Borla muffler and Gangemi-created carbon fiber tips. It also sports VAC underdrive pulleys, while another Markus carbon fiber intake plenum takes pride of place under the hood.
Yet the wiring wasn't the only nightmare, because the front subframe and oil pan needed fabrication to shoehorn the big six into the tiny bay. Yet the body escaped without modification. "I didn't hammer the firewall, beat metal or bend any body panels to make the S54 fit, although I did get creative with the drivetrain," he said.
How creative? It has an E36 M3 ZF transmission, E34 M5 clutch and M Coupe 3.25:1 limited-slip.
Of course, no power increase is complete without chassis mods, so Ryan started with Ground Control coilovers, utilizing Koni SA shocks with 650 lb front and 1200 lb rear springs, combined with AKG control arms to ensure it corners flat even without sway bars. It also uses AKG subframe bushings and weld-in caster/camber/toe kits plus an E36 M3 steering rack without power steering. "I love the direct feel of the manual steering and brakes without nannies like ABS," he said.
Ah yes, Gangemi is a purest and drives without the aid of assistance to his custom Brembo setup from Lee Motorsports. The stoppers consist of four-piston calipers on all corners with a Ron Lee rotor kit employing 14" Dodge Viper floating discs up front, and 13" C6 Corvette Z06 rears.
The massive binders are paired with Mintex ceramic pads and a 21mm/17mm master cylinder that have proved more than sufficient to haul down just 2700 lb of Bavarian steel.
Ryan didn't hold back on the exterior either. "I wanted the body to be subtle, yet aggressive, so the mods and 19" Morr VS7 forged wheels set the tone I was trying to achieve," he said.
Additions included M3 Evo Sport fenders and rear wing with a carbon Gurney flap and front splitter on the Evo 2 front spoiler. It also has JEDM3 carbon kidney grilles, smoked Hella headlights and yellow fogs. "To fit the wheels I had to flare the rear arches but also shaved the door locks, bumper lines and washer nozzles before the car was repainted its OEM silver by Precision Autobody," Gangemi said.
Inside, you'll find Recaro-style front seats, a Momo Comp steering wheel, ZHP shift knob and leather-wrapped German console. "The interior is understated but I'm in the process of swapping over to the Evo's tri-color interior with Recaro S30 seats, tri-color consoles and leather door handles - it should make a nice addition," he suggested.
As you'd expect from a fanatic, the job is never done and Ryan's considering several other updates but hinted he might sell the car for the right offer to recreate an E30 Convertible he still misses.
"There are faster cars out there, but few have the visceral appeal of a proper S54-swapped E30 M3 since the chassis is about 700 lb lighter than the E46. It's alive in a way you never thought possible," he said. Naysayers need only look at the black lines behind Gangemi's creation to understand he's not bluffing.
Engine 3.2-liter S54B32 six-cylinder 24v with Specialist Components Typhoon standalone ECU, manual throttle conversion, secondary air injection block-off, Markus carbon fiber plenum chamber, VAC underdrive pulleys, AN-10 oil cooler with ten-row Mishimoto core, Samco hoses, ceramic-coated Supersprint stainless steel headers, 3" mandrel-bent exhaust with Borla XS muffler and RGMW carbon tips, modified dual-sump S54 oil pan
Drivetrain E36 M3 ZF five-speed manual transmission, E34 M5 Sachs clutch, UUC lightweight flywheel, M Coupe 3.25:1 limited-slip differential and cover, UUC EVO3 short shifter
Brake four-piston Brembo calipers all round with custom Ron Lee 14" Viper floating rotors f, 13" C6 Z06 r, 21mm/17mm master cylinder, Mintex ceramic pads, ABS deleted
Suspension Ground Control coilovers with 650 lb f, 1200 lb r springs, Koni SA shocks, AKG front control arms, 12mm raised 80A subframe bushings, 75D TA bushings, weld-in caster/camber/toe kit, unassisted E36 M3 steering rack
Wheels & Tires 19x8.5" f, 19x9.5" r Morr VS7 wheels, 245/30 R19 f, 275/30 R19 r Yokohama S.drive tires
Exterior Evo Sport pulled rear fenders, rear wing and hood seals, rolled front fenders, carbon fiber Gurney flap and front splitter, Evo 2 front spoiler, JEDM3 carbon kidney grilles, shorty antenna, shaved badges, locks and washer nozzles, smoked Hella headlights, yellow French foglights, clear markers, smoked MHW tail lights, window tint
Interior leather front sports seats and rears, leather-wrapped German console, Momo Comp steering wheel, ZHP shifter and custom boot, suede headliner, carbon dash trim, JVC head unit, Rockford Fosgate component speakers, 10" Luke subwoofer and amp
Thanks Ryan Gangemi MotorWorks (ryangmw.com), AKG Motorsports, Ron Lee at Lee Motorsports, Precision Autobody, VAC


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Elementary school kids are accustomed to activities based on short bursts of energy alternating with rest. Introduce them to the idea of pacing by exploring the basic concepts first. Pacing is a tough concept for kids this age so have fun exploring it with them without being concerned that they achieve command of the skills.
These lessons will let kids discover how it feels to run at different speeds, and what their body does to change speed. Kids will also distinguish between constant speed (running at a steady, consistent pace) and variable speed (running at a fluctuating pace).See all Elementary School Pacing Plans (5)


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Whiteagle wrote:501stCadians wrote::rtfm:
Matt, you play this game?
Once in a blue moon!
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Whiteagle wrote:501stCadians wrote::rtfm:
Matt, you play this game?
IVhorseman wrote:I'm the Several Hundred Dollar Man!
Rayhawk wrote:"Give him the stick DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK" was a major part of Knights Kingdom development.
Hoboman wrote:I forgot for a moment what forum I was on.
Jbgarrison wrote:Helios server has recently merged into Connery Server (home of the 666 Devil Dogs NC outfit).
So, I'm still JBGarrison72, battlerank 32, rolling with the [DFNS] Death Falcons NC outfit on... Connery. I play pretty regularly... "Live free in the NC!"
Kastrenzo wrote:I don't suppose anyone still plays this.
I kind of disowned it for a while, I find SOE to be a breathtakingly stupid and utterly incompetent studio and company *I use the word company lightly, since as their name suggests they're just a puppet of Sony*
What server/s do people play on? I have six characters, 2 for each team.
Kastrenzo - Mattherson, Used to be my main, Until Buzzcutpsycho threw a fit and disbanded our outfit, he much preferred to sit in his Teamspeak and talk about how much he hates N*****rs all day. Had good times in TE but they're honestley just a bunch of depressive racist internet tough guys.
DicJacobus - Waterson
KastrenzoB - Waterson
HolyTrinityOfVerticies - Connery
Kastrenzo74 - Waterson
GeneralScreenShake - Connery
Kastrenzo wrote:Snowmew and his other Vanguard butt buddies are on NC, *Christoph AKA DVSDelrith, had some fun with that when I found out who delrith really was, and told everyone about his disgusting phonesex*
Kastrenzo wrote:Waterson TR are the zergfit, Too many TR on Waterson, Too many VS on Mattherson
I don't really like Waterson because of the huge population imbalance and all the SL morons. I went to planetside to start fresh not be rubbing shoulders with the same people from 4 years ago
Vami_IV wrote:Does anyone else play on Connery? I'm MajorRomano of 14th Freelance; my own outfit after being kicked of the big TR groups because I'm 14.
I will happily join an active TR faction in need of me and my Heavy / Medic / Mechanic abilities
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