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Brooklyn Brewery put together a traveling roadshow they call the Mash. It stops in New Orleans March 29 through April 5. There are tasting and beer dinners, as one might expect from an event created by a leading American craft brewery. But there are also concerts and comedy shows and quirky movies.
For Steve Hindy, co-founder of the Brooklyn Brewery, the Mash is all about making connections between the borough of Brooklyn and other cultural hotbeds across America and the world.
"We're celebrating the local culture in New Orleans and other cities," Hindy said. "There is kind of a renaissance happening here in Brooklyn, and I think it has links to similar renaissances in other cities."
In 2014, the Mash will visit 10 U.S. cities, including Austin, Chicago and Miami, along with London and Stockholm.
"We picked cities that have culture like the culture here in Brooklyn," Hindy said. "New Orleans is a natural. New Orleans is always a special place in America."
In each city, the Mash mixes chefs and performers from Brooklyn with local talent.
Brooklyn Brewery's Mash
- What: Tastings, dinners, beer talks and concerts.
- Where: Various venues around New Orleans.
- When: March 29-April 5.
- More information: See Brooklyn Brewer's website.
On its stop here, New Orleans chef Eman Loubier of Dante's Kitchen cooks an outdoor farm-to-table feast with Brooklyn Brewery's house chef Andrew Gerson. New Orleans and New York comedians team up for a show at the Howlin Wolf. Kirk Coco of NOLA Brewing and David Blossman of Abita will join Hindy for a conversation on the "craft beer revolution." (See below for a complete schedule.)
This is the second year that the Brooklyn Brewery in partnership with Slow Food USA has produced the Mash. The tour visited New Orleans last year as well.
For Hindy, the Mash harkens back to the earliest days of his brewery. Without a marketing budget like the major beer brands, Brooklyn got the word out when it started 26 years ago by giving away beer to charities and arts groups.
"It turned out to be a wonderful way to connect with beer drinkers and create a lot of good will," he said. "I think the Mash is a projection of that same approach."
In those early days, Brooklyn and other craft brewers had to convince drinkers to give up their light lagers made by Miller, Coors or Budweiser.
"People didn't know what we were doing," Hindy said. "A lot of people spit out Brooklyn Lager."
Today craft breweries across the country continue to gain market share.
"For the last four years," he said, "it's been double digit growth."
Hindy admits, though, that too many high-end restaurants still ignore beer. Brooklyn's brewmaster Garrett Oliver literally wrote the book on beer and food pairings with his 2003 publication, "The Brewmaster's Table." And many of the Mash events are dinners and tastings to evangelize about how well a beer goes with dinner.
"The wine guys have definitely outplayed us," Hindy said. "I think that's a big challenge for the future."
For tickets and a detailed schedule, visit brooklynbrewerymash.com.
Brooklyn Brewery's Mash day-by-day
Saturday, March 29
Brooklyn Beer Here: New Orleans
Brooklyn Brewery's chef Andrew Gerson talks about pairing beer with food.
4 p.m.; free
Rouses at 400 N. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans
6 p.m.; free
Winn-Dixie at 401 N. Carrollton Ave., New Orleans
Sunday, March 30
Dinner on the Farm
Gerson and chef Eman Loubier of Dante's Kitchen prepare a farm-to-table feast at City Park's Grow Dat Youth Farm with music and farm tours.
5 p.m.; $65
150 Zachary Taylor Dr., New Orleans
Tuesday, April 1
Craft Beer Revolution
Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy joins Kirk Coco of NOLA Brewing an David Blossman of Abita for a conversation about the past, present and future of American craft beer.
7 p.m.; $6
NOLA Brewing at 3001 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans
Wednesday, April 2
Mash EDU
Mary Wiles, the technical director of Brooklyn Brewery, talks about the nuts and bolts of making beer. Samples of rare Brooklyn brews will be poured.
7 p.m.; free
The Avenue Pub at 1732 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans
Brooklyn Ha Ha
New York stand-ups Josh Gondelman and Doug Smith join local comedians for a raucous night of laughs.
9 p.m.; $10
The Howlin Wolf at 615 Toulouse St., New Orleans
Thursday, April 3
Found Footage Festival
Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, who have worked for The Onion and the Late Show with David Letterman, narrate unearthed VHS clips in the seventh edition of this oddball performance.
7 p.m.; $12
One Eyed Jacks at 615 Toulouse St., New Orleans
Friday, April 4
Slow Supper with Dinner Lab
The members-only dining club offers a meal open to the general public at a surprise location.
7 p.m.; $65
Location to be announced on day of dinner
Saturday, April 5
Brooklyn Cast-Off
A wide selection of special casks of Brooklyn beer will be available with suggested cheese pairings.
2 p.m.
The Avenue Pub at 1732 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans
Mash Bash with Marnie Stern
The Mash concludes with a free concert by Brooklyn rocker Stern paired with food trucks and a video installation. The band Native America open.
8 p.m.; free
One Eyed Jacks at 615 Toulouse St., New Orleans
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One of the more bizarre aspects of the euro zone crisis is that the currency in question -- the euro -- has actually not had that bad a year, certainly against the dollar. Even with Greece on the brink and Italy sending ripples of fear across financial markets, the single currency is still up 1.4 percent against the greenback for the year to date.
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from Jeremy Gaunt:
Democracy and Chaos are both Greek
It seems as if almost everyone was surprised by Prime Minister George Papandreou's decision to hold a referendum on the euro zone's bailout package for his country. At the very least, it can probably be said that he is weary of being hammered from all sides -- his own party, the opposition, the people on the street, Germany, the tabloid press, you name it.
from MacroScope:
Falling out of the euro zone?
The periphery economies of the euro zone are suddenly in the spotlight. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has cut its outlook on Ireland's sovereign debt to negative. It worries that fiscal measures to recapitalise banks and boost the economy might not improve competitiveness, diversity and growth -- all making it harder to manage debt.


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Ten subscribers to the Red Oxx newsletter won autographed copies of James Patterson's "Kill Me If You Can." Red Oxx's own Sky Train Carry-on Bag is mentioned on page 129 as the "world's most efficient carry-on."
Sent to your email about every three or four months (quarterly), our Field Report email newsletter features packing tips, travel guidelines, adventure stories, CEO Jim Markel's trips, and new gear introductions. Winners will be notified by email and announced on Facebook, Twitter and here at Redoxx.com. Red Oxx zealously guards your email address and guarantees your privacy.
Microsoft highlighted Red Oxx's Business Solutions Retail Management System in a client case study. With help from Microsoft, Red Oxx can better track customers, shorten steps, contain costs, and hoist sales. Here is a brief overview of the Microsoft solution:
Sustaining rapid growth with a paper-and-pen system was impossible for Red Oxx Manufacturing. "We make the best travel bags on the planet, yet we weren't serving customers as well as we could have," says Jim Markel, Jr., Co-owner, Red Oxx Manufacturing. "Almost every order, especially the custom ones, had some information problem. Ordering sometimes backed up because we didn't know what to tell our manufacturing arm to make."
Compiling a precise wish list for a new system, Markel and Co-owner Perry Jones selected Microsoft Business Solutions Retail Management System. "It exceeded data and reporting needs," Markel says, "and it was easy to install, learn, and operate."
"This retail system is very easy to learn and use," says Markel. "All of our staff use the system and are comfortable with it—even the ones that didn't like computers. Any learning curve delivers its benefits more rapidly as you take it farther."
"Microsoft Retail Management System helped get us organized so we could grow 28 percent and expand Web sales 600 percent in 2004," says Markel. The plant, store, and management operations continue to combine in a smooth-running machine.
"Our entire product line owes its success to innovative design and superior raw materials and workmanship," says Markel. "Making production happen wisely depends on precise and accurate communication between retail and manufacturing. Management needed to know who was buying, how often, and how recently. They had to have that information on a moment's notice," says Markel, "so we could give manufacturing a heads-up."
"Now, communication in every direction is vastly improved," he says. "With Microsoft Retail Management System, we can track all corporate and individual sales—including why the customer bought the product—in an easily accessible and exportable form."
Another factor contributing to sales growth was easy and obedient reporting. "The system helps us find new ways to attract new customers. My analysis of our product line showed we were totally ignoring the $20-item market. So we now carry shaving kits, smaller bags, and totes to complement our large, high-quality $150-to-$200 product range.
"One slow day in a hotel before a Houston show, we pulled up all our Houston customers and prospects from the system, and personally called each one to invite them to the show," says Markel. "That's marketing power!"
Markel is able to track orders, hourly, whether they come in online, by phone, at the point of sale, or at shows. "None of this was possible before," says Markel.
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Banyan Tree Partners With HFH China To Raise Funds For 100 Homes In Guangdong And Philippines
Singapore Resort and Spa Developer Will Match Donations From Sale Of Lifelong Memberships To Its Global Destination Club
HONG KONG, 7th May 2010: Singapore-listed premium resort, hotel and spa developer Banyan Tree unveiled a fundraising partnership with Habitat for Humanity China at a cocktail party in Hong Kong recently.
The year-long partnership aims to raise US$1 million to build a total of 100 homes in Guangdong, China and in the Pasig River project in the Philippines.
Fund-raising initiatives include having the Banyan Tree Private Collection, a global destination club under Banyan Tree, donate US$10,000 from each US$140,000-exclusive lifelong membership it sells. Banyan Tree will also match the donation with an additional US$10,000. Other fund-raising events will be organized by Banyan Tree throughout the year.
In Guangdong, HFH China aims to build at least 150 housing units for low-income families in a partnership with the local government in Qujiang district, Shaoguan municipality. Habitat also expects to improve the villagers' access to improved water and sanitary sources. More than 15,800 families in Qujiang live in houses made with mud bricks or earthen walls without sanitation facilities and lacking proper ventilation. The residents also face the danger of having their houses collapse on them and their livestock during heavy storms and floods.
Over in the Philippines, donations will benefit the Pasig River rehabilitation project in the Philippines. As part of the seven-year, multi-partner project, HFH Philippines is leading the construction of houses for informal riverbank settlers who have been allocated homes on a resettlement site in Calauan municipality, Laguna province, southeast of Metro Manila. Under the Pasig River project, Habitat aims to serve 40,000 families with safe and permanent housing between 2011 and 2015.
"Banyan Tree has long been committed to being an agent of social and economic development through responsible tourism. Habitat's message that 'hope starts at home' deeply resonates with BTPC and our commitment to corporate social responsibility and offer of a home away from home to our members and guests," said Marina Kleiman, Banyan Tree Private Collection's managing director.
Managed by the Banyan Tree group, Banyan Tree Private Collection owns villas in Phuket, Thailand; Bali and Bintan, Indonesia; Ringha in Yunnan, China; Grasse, France; Tuscany, Italy and Seychelles in addition to the luxury apartments in London, England and Kyoto, Japan.


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Love your premium cable shows - but hate the premium cable price tag?
You're in luck - for one week Comcast is making OnDemand content from HBO, STARZ, Showtime, Cinemax and much more free.
It's all part of the Xfinity Watchathon Week, which runs from March 31 to April 6. Xfinity TV customers, regardless of subscription level, will be able to watch full seasons of hit series from 48 networks. What do we mean by hit series? We're talking "Game of Thrones," "Orphan Black," "Bates Motel" and more
Sweetening the deal? You can watch the Watchathon selections from the Xfinity TV Go app, Xfinity.com/TV or on the television screen. To see the Watchathon items on TV, simply click on the Watchathon folder starting on March 31 on your On Demand screen.
Wondering if your favorite show is included in the Watchathon week? You can see the full list of eligible programs at http://www.xfinitywatchathonhq.com/.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The second game of the Birmingham Barons initial home series will be played tonight. General manager Jonathan Nelson has targeted 8:45 p.m. as the start time for the game pitting the Barons (3-3) and the Mississippi Braves (3-3).
The grounds crew has already removed the tarp from the infield and is rolling it up. Members of both teams have come out to begin warm ups.
Left-hander Spencer Arroyo (0-0, 1.80 ERA) will take the mound for the Barons, who evened their record with a come-from-behind 9-5 victory Wednesday against the M-Braves. J.R. Graham (0-0, 0.00) is set to pitch for the visitors.


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As expected, I disagree with Anders. Comparing the housing bubble bursting to the dot-com bust is like equating a magnificent mansion with a shotgun shack. The tech debacle was based on unreasonable valuations forged from iffy metrics like eyeballs and venture-capital spending. The housing market's crumble is a tangible event. Profits have become losses. Land options are being forfeited. Book values are being marked down.
You can't spin that, and you can't right it -- at least, not for several more quarters at the earliest. Besides, if tech stocks are back in fashion, why are housing-related online companies like HouseValues (Nasdaq: SOLD ) and Realtor.com parent Move (Nasdaq: MOVE ) languishing in the single digits?
Still, I had to rub my eyes when I saw my buddy Anders lean on trailing profit margins as part of the basis of his bullish argument. For starters, let's kick Homex (NYSE: HXM ) off the list. I trust that the housing market in Mexico is marching to a much healthier beat than what's going on over on this side of the border. Lo siento, Homex.
The other four firms are heading the wrong way, if you like positive net margins. Two of them cited posted losses in their latest quarters. The other two didn't hold up much better, with Brookfield (NYSE: BHS ) and Avatar (Nasdaq: AVTR ) posting bottom-line pratfalls of 77% and 81%, respectively.
Anders suggests trash-picking. Let me tell you why that's a terrible idea. You're there, happily wolfing down junk, when the garbage truck scoops you up, compacts you, and leaves you even smaller than when you started.
Speaking of junk, that's what the heavy debt of Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH ) got downgraded to last week, following the trash-heap steps off three of its larger rivals. Want more junk? See if you find Comstock (Nasdaq: CHCI ) in that Dumpster. Last week found the company declaring that it sold just 81 homes during the quarter, offset by 78 cancellations. Oh, and the cancelled orders were for far more expensive homes, so the company is booking a negative $11.5 million in net new home orders for the September quarter.
"Every crash has a bottom," argues Anders. He's right. The problem here is that the skid marks are just getting started.


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INDEPENDENCE- Forty working hours after negotiations began April 3, continued April 4, 5 and 8, there has been no progress toward reaching a deal to bring striking Strongsville teachers back into the classroom.
School board President David Frazee said in a release late April 8 that negotiation teams for the board and Strongsville Education Association engaged in "lengthy, face-to-face dialogue" over the four day stretch, ending April 8 with "no progress to report."
"We believe that the last best offer presented on March 2 remains to be what is in the best interest of Strongsville City Schools, our community and our students," Frazee said. "Given the extraordinary number of hours spent at the bargaining table, yet lack of significant progress, at this time we respectfully ask the SEA bargaining team to present our last, best offer to their membership for a vote to get our teachers back in the classroom."
SEA President Tracy Linscott said the teachers union already voted on the last, best offer March 3 and rejected it, officially setting up the pins for the strike in the first place.
"Dave Frazee needs to be less concerned with when the SEA meets and be more concerned with when the Board of Education meets," she said after the session ended. "The SEA did vote on (the last, best offer) and 94% of the membership turned it down."
The school board has canceled its last three meetings.
No further negotiation meetings were scheduled.
The negotiations began at 9 a.m. on a day when two more teachers crossed the picket line formed with the SEA's 383 members, according to Strongsville City School officials.
That makes a total of six teachers who have crossed to date, or about 1.5 percent of those on strike.The lack of an agreement also comes the same day City Council announced it was calling a special meeting April 9 to consider a resolution urging the sides to come to an agreement as soon as possible.
The school board's last, best offer was made March 2, and the SEA countered the offer with two proposals, one after meeting with Strongsville Mayor Thomas Perciak, Superintendent John Krupinski said were "unsustainable and unaffordable," and Frazee has said would result in the district breaking its budget by at least $2 million.The Plain Dealer said the union estimated their counter proposal would have increased the district's expenditures by $1.5 million, meaning this counter offer would still cost $1.2 million more than the current contract.
The teachers' counter offers to the board's last, best offer included re-instituting step and column raises that were frozen in the last round of negotiations in 2010-2011, capping class sizes and compensating teachers whose classes break the cap - 23 students in kindergarten and 135 students per day in high school.
The SEA's proposal would also define the teachers' work day as the "student" day and replace planning time given up during the last round of negotiations.
The board is advocating for a continued step and column freeze and would
replace the district's 9.3 percent so-called "pick-up on the pick-up" of employee's share of retirement
with a 9.3 percent base salary raise. The SEA wanted a 10.3 percent salary raise.
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Issue 24: Costs & Benefits Related to the Dodd-Frank 'Conflict Minerals' Law | David Schatsky, Green Research
The latest report from EL Analysts is from David Schatsky, Green Research. This brief looks at the Dodd-Frank 'conflict minerals' law, which requires companies to undertake supply chain due diligence on so-called conflict minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo or adjoining countries.
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|NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter
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No surprise, really. They're beautiful birds to watch. There's one that used to fish on (what passes for a 'lake' in the Miami area) the lake behind my house, and darned if he/she didn't get some nice bass outa there. I could never get 'em with hook and line.. Gil, W1RG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lux" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: <email@example.com> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Towers and Sea Birds > At 10:44 AM 7/24/2006, Richard M. Gillingham wrote: >>Joking aside, the osprey is probably close to to the top of the avian food >>chain in your neighborhood, so he's probably not afraid of many things. >>The >>ideas for obstructing his perch are probably the most practical. Then >>there's always the shotgun. Is the osprey a protected species?? > > Almost all "top of the food chain" species are protected under CITES, as > well as a whole raft of migratory species that are protected in one form > or > another. > > US Fish and Wildlife Service has a huge amount of data > http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/intrnltr/mbta/compare.pdf > > And sure enough, Ospreys are covered. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TowerTalk mailing list > firstname.lastname@example.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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In case the newspapers haven't realized it, there are people out there who rent whole seasons of certain shows (Six Feet Under, for example) on DVD. This puts us a season or two behind the regular viewer. So, when you write a review of the latest airing of the show on HBO, it would be really nice if you bastards… Read more →
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(WBNG Binghamton) Minimum wage is on a steady incline for workers in New York. Those being tipped for their services could also see a change in the future.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on a wage board to review and make recommendations for wages of service workers around the state.
One of the members of the board is former Broome County Executive Timothy Grippen.
Cuomo said currently, tipped workers are paid a base rate. Their tips are then added to that pay and the total must equal or exceed minimum wage.
With minimum wage going up to to $8.75 on December 31, the board will ensure that tipped workers will continue to meet that requirement.
If not, Cuomo said changes need to be made. Final determinations will be made by February of 2015.


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Sunderland's scintillating 3-0 victory at champions Chelsea this afternoon brought Week 13 of the 2010-11 Premier League to a close in style. A surprise victory for Stoke City against Liverpool and an impressive performance by Aston Villa against Manchester United on Saturday meant that there was a trio of shock results this weekend.
In truth, this weekend has been typical of this season; shock results and performances around every corner. With Bolton fifth and Sunderland climbing to sixth and Merseyside rivals Everton and Liverpool both languishing in the bottom half of the table, it really has become impossible to predict the unpredictable.
Even Chelsea and Manchester United, usually both so composed and experienced in escaping from adverse circumstances with positive results, have shown more frailties than expected. That there are just six points between fifth and 18th position show that teams are taking points from each other in an entertaining merry-go-round.
All of this suggests that fans have never had it better.
In the following slideshow, I choose the 11 best players in their respective positions based on their performances for their team, their Actim Index score and the number of clean sheets, goals and assists they have to their name.


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You are so deceived. Obama has sense, yes, but his sense is to do exactly what he wants to do which is the opposite of what America stands for. America needs to support Israel and the Jewish people.
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Clint Eastwood may be the smartest, most intelligent person who has ever spoken at a convention with the most common sense and ability to convey in a few words with a twinkle in his eyes the dark path we will be on if Obama is re-elected.
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September 7, 2012 at 6:25pm
I really don't like this "get what America deserves" kind of comments because there are many of us Americans who would never, ever vote for Obama or anyone like him and if he gets elected it is not our fault and yet we will suffer right along with the goofballs who vote for him. We do not deserve the same fate.
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Obama has no respect for America or her flag, so this is act is not surprising. It is within normal limits for this evil administration.
September 5, 2012 at 7:26pm
God bless Allen West!
August 19, 2012 at 4:15pm
He's leading to the ruination of this once proud country.
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You have the right and only just answer. Leaving the guy alive with or without a beard is a travesty.
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I agree. Anyone telling the truth is a target. Way to go Hank.
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All I can say is "Well, duh."
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Stupid, stupid, stupid to make anything out of this except her excitement over winning!!!!!!! Don't we have something better to do than put down athletes?!
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Wish I had thought up your comment. I am so tired of criminals getting the sympathy when they are caught or killed in their illegal actions. Everyone keep your iron handy!
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February 11, 2012 at 11:53am
Yes, indeedy! We need more parents like this who have the guts to take action even when the P.C. reaction will be negative. God bless this man and his family – especially the young woman who has a dad you cares about her.
February 11, 2012 at 11:51am
It's really sad when the parents are supporters of their daughter's "right" to overt sexual exposure.
January 29, 2012 at 12:39pm
Not for anyone!!! I agree with you this one.
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JACKSON, MI – Combine sweater vests, a little bit of swagger and a whole lot of smarts, and you get a championship "QuizBusters" team.
At least that's how Jackson Christian High School does it, and it's worked for three years in a row.
Earlier this month, seniors Kennedy Wilson, Zack Schneider and Chris Olmos; juniors Bradley Hendrick and Jon Williams; and freshman Andrew Fretwell clinched the school's third straight division championship in the academic game show produced by WKAR-TV, Michigan State University's public television station.
"This was extra sweet," said Schneider, 17. "I don't think something like this happens very often."
The victory earned the team four $5,000 scholarships to MSU and four $500 certificates to MSU's Student Book Store. In three years, the school has earned $62,000 in scholarships and book store certificates, said Joanne Knowlton, a teacher and QuizBusters coach.
"I'm so proud of these guys," Knowlton said. "To three-peat in anything doesn't happen very often. And they are so much fun to coach."
In the competition, team members are quizzed on anything they've learned in high school, as well as pop culture, general knowledge and current events. Teams are put into two divisions based on the size of their schools.
Jackson Christian faced Hillsdale Academy – one of its rivals – on Dec. 3 in its division championship this year.
The back-and-forth game came down to the 60-second lightening round when teams try to answer as many questions as they can. But, if they get an answer wrong, they also lose points.
Hillsdale had a chance to tie with the last question, but missed the answer, lost 10 points and Jackson Christian won 420 to 400.
"We were pretty emotionally drained after that," Knowlton said. "We'd given it all we had."
Jackson Christian then faced Okemos, the other division winner, for the overall championship. Okemos won handily 520 to 310.
The team's camaraderie is one of its strongest points, Knowlton said.
Besides the sweater vests, members have a tradition of eating Chinese food and chocolate and mint for brain power and energy. They also have a good-luck charm in the form of a toy hamster in a ball that goes to every competition with them.
"We just like to have a lot of fun," Schneider said.
Jackson Christian's QuizBusters program will lose three seniors this year, but has gained four freshmen, Knowlton said.
"This has been fun," said Fretwell, the freshman who participated on the winning varsity team. "My useless knowledge doesn't feel so useless anymore."
Jackson Christian's quiz team also is planning to attend the National Academic Championship in Washington, D.C., in the spring. A "Send the Nerds to Nationals" fundraising variety show is being planned for April.
The 24th season of "QuizBusters" airs at 6 p.m. Saturdays on WKAR-TV. The championship rounds should start around May, Knowlton said.


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They better have deleted scenes included! From what I hear there are plenty to choose from.
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Under a special dispensation for a town that's had a tough summer, you get one day of your life back today.
It's sports-related only -- no marriages, anniversaries, births of the kids or grandkids.
So what day do you choose?
It's public, too. The day you get back has to be in a scrapbook everyone can page through.
So pick a day.
Would you take Ohio State's Cie Grant, cheating up from the edge, ready to roar in from the Ohio State 1-yard line in the second overtime, then spin Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey like a wobbly top, and end maybe the greatest game ever?
That would be a lot of Clevelanders' keeper because this is such an Ohio State town, and because it was the first championship in so long.
Or how about Ohio State, down nine at the Big House with seven minutes to play, then Troy Smith started slipping tackles and buying time until Anthony Gonzalez went up for the ball as the third receiver behind Santonio Holmes and Ted Ginn Jr., and came down a Buckeyes legend?
That might be your memory. Listen to the silent night falling over Ann Arbor, which had expected victory all afternoon.
You might prefer Cleveland's most recent championship in 1964. The memories of it might be in black and white now. So was the TV transmission then -- if you could get it, with a doctored antenna, watching through the static and snow. There's Gary Collins, breaking free again!
How about any night in the mid-'90s, when baseball owned the city? The Jacobs Field P.A. is playing a bell tolling, cowbells are jangling in the packed stands, but only until Albert Belle holds out his arm, putting the still in the night as he steps into the batter's box. It was New Year's Eve every night, with honking car horns celebrating victory in the summer darkness.
How about Bernie Kosar going deep down the north sideline to Webster Slaughter in overtime to beat the Steelers when only a TD would do? Regular place-kicker Matt Bahr had hurt his knee in the game. Of the blocking technique on a prospective field goal attempt by Harry Holt, the emergency kicker, Ozzie Newsome, told teammates, "Get low, boys!" That day lifted us up, all right.
Or would it be that arctic night on the lakefront last year when the Browns beat up the Steelers, in a reversal of a long, tired script? Can we bottle that chill and introduce these late August days to autumn with a whiff of it?
What about the night LeBron James scored 48 points against the Pistons, including the last 25? He's dribbling, dribbling at the top of the key, about to get to the rim for the winning layup. The refs swallow their whistles and let Jason Maxiell treat James' left arm like a wishbone. Can we stop that tape right there, when it seemed like the good times with him would go on forever?
Wait. Wait. Eric Metcalf is breaking into the open on two punt returns against Pittsburgh, and he becomes Ted Ginn, skittering through Michigan, who becomes Josh Cribbs burning Kansas City twice. Those are three days you need.
Kenny Lofton is flying around third in Seattle. Kevin Mack is bulling into the end zone in the Astrodome. Daniel Gibson can't miss in the fourth quarter. Will Allen is intercepting Michigan near the goal line. All good days, every one of them.
There is a lot more to love than just championships, though. Take the day Jack Nicklaus shot a 68 at age 58 in the final round of the 1998 Masters. He walked up the hill to the 18th green, applauded every step of the way, waving like a spike-shod pope, luminous in the golden slashes of late afternoon light. It was really his valedictory.
Jack doesn't play competitively anymore, but he does in my head. And so do all the others, on all their fields, through all the days memory keeps fresh.
We wait for someone to fill today as fully as these men filled yesterday. Until then, pick a day.


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Memorial Day observances abound in Kitsap
Flags will be unfurled, wreaths placed at graves and tears will flow as Taps is played at Memorial Day events Monday, May 27 throughout Kitsap County.
Here is a list of known Memorial Day commemorations:
n Retsil Veterans Home: A Mem-orial Day ceremony to pay tribute to fallen veterans will be held at 10 a.m. at the Washington Veterans Home at Retsil, 1141 Beach Drive in Port Orchard. The ceremony is open to the public and will include John King, director of the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs as speaker. The Clam Island Band and Kitsap High School Sign Choir will provide the music, the South Kitsap High School NJROTC will join the Knights of Columbus as color guard, and VFW Post 2669 will fire a rifle salute.
USS Turner Joy, Bremerton: An event sponsored by the Bremerton/Olympic Peninsula Chapter of the Navy League of the United States, begins 10 a.m. aboard the ex-USS Turner Joy along the waterfront boardwalk. Speaker will be Cmdr. George Ridgeway of the Subase Bangor Chapel. A rifle squad from the Bangor Marine Corps Security Force will also assist as will members of the Sea Cadets Honor Guard. Chapter President Vern Young, a retired Navy captain, will throw the ceremonial wreath into the waters of Sinclair Inlet. Refreshments will be served afterwards. Open to the public.
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Bremerton: Branch 29 of the Fleet Reserve Association of Bremerton along with the Ladies Auxiliary of FRA Unit 29 hosts a joint Memorial Day Service at 11 a.m. at Forest Lawn Cemetery, 5409 Kitsap Way (just south of Miller-Woodlawn Cemetery) in Bremerton. Upon entering the cemetery, veer right until you near the flag pole surrounded by a hedge where the FRA Branch 29 plots and services will be held. Capt. Dan Cloyd, commanding officer of the supply ship USS Sacramento will be guest speaker. The services will be supported by the USMC Security Force Co., Bangor Subase Rifle Team and a Navy Band Northwest bugler. This Memorial Day service is open to the public.
Ivy Green Cemetery, Bremerton: Veterans of Foreign War District No. 4 and local VFW Post 239 will host a ceremony at Ivy Green Cemetery at 1 p.m. The cemetery is near the intersection of Naval Avenue and 12th Street in Bremerton. Capt. Wayne Radloff, comptroller at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard will be guest speaker along with Cmdr. Marci Pinkerton, executive officer of Naval Station Bremerton. Members of the Royal Canadian Legion will be attending from British Columbia. Particularly poignant moments at this ceremony are a bugler playing Taps and Amazing Grace played by a kilted bagpiper.
Poulsbo: VFW Post 2463 and American Legion Post 245 will conduct an
Observance at Poulsbo Waterfront Park, Kvelstad Pavillion on May 27 at noon. Guest speaker is Jack Hamilton, retired naval submarine
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a ceremonial wreath laying on Liberty Bay.
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Of late, it seems, the Texas and Wake Forest players have spent as much time on the psychiatrist couch as the trainer's table.
Late-season slides have more people analyzing the mindset of the Longhorns and Demon Deacons as what's gone wrong with their physical skills.
"I don't think anybody has asked our players a positive question for the last two months, " Texas Coach Rick Barnes said.
Perhaps then it's only fitting that the two pieces of damaged goods sporting résumé's more suited for the NIT meet tonight in the finale of four opening-round games of the NCAA Tournament at the New Orleans Arena.
What's more, they're seeded as close as first-round foes can get - No. 8 for Texas, and No. 9 for Wake Forest.
"I guess that makes us even, " Texas junior forward Gary Johnson said. "We've both had our problems.
"That puts us in the same boat, so it should be a hard-fought game."
Of the two, Texas has made the noted slide. On Jan. 18, the Longhorns, then 17-0, reached No. 1 in the polls for the first time in the program's history.
An article in Sporting News that day proclaimed Texas the team of the new decade.
That night, however, Texas lost to Kansas State and has since gone 6-9. In their most recent game, the Longhorns were blown out by Baylor 86-67 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament.
It was Texas' third loss of the year to Baylor, a team the Longhorns had beaten 24 of the previous 25 times. The Bears also are in New Orleans, a No. 3 seed playing Sam Houston.
"That's kind of hard to fathom, " Johnson said. "They played hard to earn what they've got. But it's no fun seeing them there and us where we are."
Only Alabama in 2003 has been No. 1 at one point of the season and fallen to a lower seeding, No. 10. The Crimson Tide was bounced out by Purdue in the first round that year.
Wake Forest (19-10) only got as high as No. 23 this season, but since that happened on Feb. 15 the Demon Deacons have lost five of their past six. On Selection Sunday, Wake Forest was widely cited as having "stolen" a berth that should have gone to Virginia Tech, the team that started the Demon Deacons on their slide.
Wake Forest's most recent game was an 83-62 spanking at the hands of 12th-seeded Miami in the first-round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament.
"We're hearing the same thing, " Wake Forest senior guard Ishmael Smith said. "Al-Farouq Aminu is my roommate and we woke up hearing how Texas and us are so similar talent-wise. Then at the same time, how we're kind of sliding and everybody's trying to figure out what's the problem."
For Texas (24-9), it's mainly been inconsistent guard play.
The losses via injury of Varez Jones and Dogus Balbay certainly hurt, and Barnes has since been looking for some kind of consistency out of Avery Bradley, Justin Mason and Jai Lucas.
"The fact is, it's hard play this game if teams are guarding players, " Barnes said.
"It's very hard to play this game when you're not making free throws. Then, all of those things start playing into your head a little bit where I do think players can lose confidence. I'm not selling out our players, but that's what happened."
Wake Forest, too, has had its guard problems.
And like Texas' standout forward Damion James, the Demon Deacons sport a potential first-round big man, Aminu.
In fact, by most accounts, Aminu, a sophomore, would have been a first-rounder last year if he had made himself available.
As it was, Wake Forest lost two top 20 picks, James Johnson and Jeff Teague, in the NBA draft.
That makes the Demon Deacons, along with Louisville, the only team in the field of 65 to lose two underclassmen in the first round last year and make it back to the tournament.
That puts Wake Forest ahead of UCLA, Southern California and North Carolina.
So at least the expectation level for the Demon Deacons wasn't that high.
But the players admit to feeling the pressure, especially in light of last year's first-round loss to Cleveland State when the Demon Deacons were a No. 4 seed.
"Because you're so tense, you're so tight because you're scared that every time those little jump shots you used to hit and those little passes you used to make become missed shots and turnovers, " Smith said.
"We've got to learn to be free. We've got to learn to play with confidence. If we do that, we'll give ourselves a chance to win."
Likewise, Texas sees tonight's game as a chance for a fresh beginning - even if the reward for winning is a likely second-round date against Kentucky.
"The way I grew up, you don't listen to he said/she said, " James said. "You move on.
"A lot of teams have been in slumps. Tomorrow is a new 40 minutes, and if we go out and win these games, people are going to forget about what happened in the past."
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Fayetteville, N.Y. -- At least six fire departments are on the scene of a fire that appears to have swept through much of the top story of a Fayetteville house on Dartmoor Crossing early Thursday evening.
The fire is mostly extinguished, Fayetteville Deputy Fire Chief Larry Byrnes said. No injuries have been reported. Byrnes thinks the family was outside the house when the fire began.
"We were concerned for a little bit about the dog, but he's fine," Byrnes said.
Crews were still working at about 5:45 p.m. on the top story of the building at 7342 Dartmoor Crossing. Fire departments from Fayetteville, DeWitt, Manlius, Jamesville, Lyncourt and East Syracuse were called to the scene at about 4:55 p.m.
The blaze was "substantial" when firefighters arrived, Byrnes said. Video from neighbors showed smoke billowing out from the top of the house. It's unclear how much damage was done to the home.
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Skip to comments.S.F. bicyclist in fatal crash may face felony
Posted on 04/25/2012 6:26:25 PM PDT by Theoria
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is preparing to file felony vehicular manslaughter charges against Chris Bucchere, the bicyclist who fatally struck a 71-year-old pedestrian in the Castro district last month.
The felony charge - which could result in a 16-month sentence for Bucchere if he is convicted - is a sharp contrast to the misdemeanor count prosecutors filed in a case last year in which a bicyclist struck and killed a woman along the Embarcadero.
The difference this time is prosecutors' conclusion that Bucchere, 35, was grossly negligent in his riding before he ran into Sutchi Hui in a crosswalk at Market and Castro streets March 29.
"I think the evidence is very strong," said one source inside the D.A.'s office, who asked not to be named while the charges are still pending.
The problem wasn't that Bucchere ran a red light - prosecutors think the light was yellow when he rode into the intersection heading south.
But before that, a motorist reported seeing Bucchere fly through several red lights and stop signs along Divisadero Street leading up to the intersection, said police Capt. Denis O'Leary, head of the hit-and-run detail that investigated the collision.
Also, a tracker on Bucchere's bike allegedly showed he was riding faster than 35 mph in a 25-mph zone.
Finally, a video taken from a surveillance camera at 17th and Market streets reportedly showed a hunched-over Bucchere speeding through the intersection, making little or no attempt to stop before hitting Hui on the far side.
"It really shows his recklessness," O'Leary said.
In short, prosecutors will argue that - light or no light - Bucchere was traveling at an unsafe speed and failed to yield to Hui in the crosswalk.
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Has Doc Savage covered this one?
I heard him predict someone was going to get killed there someday.
So, the guy in the crosswalk was walking against the light? Interesting.
Bicyclists are certainly a hazard where I live. I've come close to hitting one a time or two. We've got some narrow hilly streets, and you come around a curve—and there they are. We have bicycle lanes designated, but a lot of them don't use them.
I was in SF some time ago with a LE buddy crossing a street when one of those maniacs on a bike came zooming up to the crosswalk and yelled out: watch out As...les. Within a nano second as the dope zoomed by, my buddy hit him with a straight right knocking him clear off the bike and into the street. He started screaming where are the police...my buddy said to him you are looking at them and you need to watch you mouth around me.
funniest thing I ever saw...that was about 30 years ago, not so sure the end result today would have been so funny for us.
There is an abnormally large segment of the bicyclist population that gives all bicyclists a bad name.
I hit 46 mph on my bicycle (speedo on handle bars) a decade ago when a pack of dogs was chasing me.
I use to ride down hills at 55+ mph...
yeah, then crash into someone.
Love it!
I live in the land of Lance Armstrong—and I think a lot of these guys want to be like him-—but are in no way even close........
Love it!
I live in the land of Lance Armstrong—and I think a lot of these guys want to be like him-—but are in no way even close........
Kind of like 99% of them give 100% a bad name?
Yes, indeed, throw the book at him.
I came within inches of being mowed down by one of these a*****es as he snuck between lines of cars and flew through a red light. I was lucky, I saw him in time and jumped back.
They think they are saving the planet and that gives them special immunity from the law.
Outlaw bikers. They get going 30-35 miles per hour. All hell is breaking loose.
That is incorrect. Castro & Market is a huge intersection. The cyclist might have entered the intersection on a yellow light, but by the time he reached the other side, pedestrians had filled the crosswalk.
The a-hole cyclist, rather than falling and tearing his precious spandex, aimed for a less crowded section of crosswalk.
He belongs in prison. I'd tell him, "Don't drop the soap," but he probably enjoys that sort of thing.
Up to a 16 MONTH sentence? That isn't even a slap on the wrist. Where's the justice?
Yep, kills a guy and laments his helmet. But it's more than no remorse - it's contemptuous, sadistic perversity.
And it's all over the Bay Area. This place has really become Sodom and Gomorrah, and it has nothing to do with homosexuality. It has to do with a breathtakingly heartless cruelty that has pervading the entire area, turning people into reptiles. It's the X-Files for real.
I walk to work on sidewalks. I have had many close calls with bikes coming up behind me on the sidewalk. You can't hear them coming. If I altered my path by a few inches I would have had serious injuries. Cops should go after those people who ride bikes on sidewalks.
I've heard of creative writing. You may have majored in creative reading. Or you've been smoking some of that 'cuban leaf'.
In the Tour de France, coming down out of the Alps, they hit 70, and those ain't straight roads. They're negotiating curves.
54 on a 20 lb bike feels about like 120 on a motorcyle. I've done both. White knuckles.
I was at a stop light in Livermore Calif. today..
A male Bicyclist shot through the intersection like a rocket! He could have never stopped if someone stepped out in front of him.
I wanted to throw a rock at him.
What do you mean? Just the cyclists?
I live in CT and we have the Lance wanna-be's on our road all of the time because it's a winding country road, not much traffic.
Last summer, we were cooking our steak dinner on an apple wood fire, and a group of them came by and started yelling at us about the smoke. "thanx for burning your trash, my lungs really appreciate it" one guy said....another one said something about us recycling our trash instead of burning it...
What a bunch of elitist dumb**s snobs!
And it's all over the Bay Area. This place has really become Sodom and Gomorrah, and it has nothing to do with homosexuality. It has to do with a breathtakingly heartless cruelty that has pervading the entire area, turning people into reptiles. It's the X-Files for real.
That's what happens when a community abandons God. It's hard to believe that the first building in San Francisco was a house of worship.
Mission San Francisco de Asís
DH has done well over 55 mph coming down mountain passes. 30 mph or q little more on the flat is not that remarkable for a seasoned cyclist
The ones that go really fast are like the downhill skiers. Fearless. Willing to risk broken bones, or worse.
I don't know DH top speed and don't want to. I think you have to be more than a little crazy to pedal hard while riding down a mountain pass.....and he talks about being slow compared to some of the lower level pros he rides with from time to time....
Incidentally the rudeness goes both ways. He rides by all traffic laws and in appropriate lanes and has had cars try to run him off the road on multiple occasions just to see if they can make him crash
Me too. 54.5mph is my personal record. Now, I'll admit a lot of the cyclists in big cities are fools, been there done that, bought the t-shirt. But I have to posit those are the exception. I have been riding in Dallas for nearly 40 years, I know hundreds of people who ride a lot. We had a gal get run down on the Katy Trail a year ago. Knocked down and killed from the fall. I still wonder how fast the guy who hit her was going. That is a very congested trail.
Personally, I always do what I can to be a good citizen, I expect the peds with their iPods to turn right in front of me so I do what I can not to run over anybody. It ain't always easy but I have a pretty good record so far.
The bicyclists here are really a piece of work. I saw one punch through a car windshield once for no reason that I could see.
There's also the Critical Mass where they take over the streets for god only knows what reason.
People are conditioned to watch out for the *big things* (cars), not the little things.
I had a Harley driver give me the evil eye in a parking lot last year. I almost pulled out in front of him, because I lost him in the front post of windshield. All I could do was throw up my hands and say "Sorry! Sorry!" It happens.
I think I have as well. No speedometer, but passing cars in an area I drove that fast.
How to handle 'Critical Mass' bicyclers, My experience at Bio 2004:
To: liberallyconservative
Oh, OK...
After moving less than half a block in 20 minutes (one block away from from Moscone), a bunch of bicyclists started riding between the cars, leader with a bull horn, shouting something about taking over the streets.
He had the horn pointed back wards so I didn't hear him coming. Durn! he got away!
However, I popped my door open in front of the third or so cyclist in the string. (I did look first to make sure he had room to stop).
He screams "You effin' clymer!!!" (OK, I cleaned it up a little, so sue me...)
I looked up smiled sweetly and said "That makes two of us..."
Totally messed them up. They had to stop and regroup. His buds split leaving him with two young "ladies" to protect him from the mean man in the car. Boo fricking hoo
I closed the door and he started to pass by and continued to berate me. When he was adjacent to the door I popped it open at him, not to hit him, but to persuade him to move along.
He darn near fell off his bike trying to dodge me.
"We're going to call 911!!!"
"Don't bother, I'll call for you" which I did. (The line was busy)
He and the two chicks decided that it was past their collective bedtimes or something and split.
Felt GOOD...
3,573 posted on 06/08/2004 5:57:17 PM PDT by null and void
I've run across some of them, even the older, professional types, heading up the Mt. Lemmon highway. Riding three abreast, carrying on their conversation, oblivious to the cars piling up behind them. I'd look at the drivers, shrug my shoulders "I'm not with them! I'm not with them!" Educated, intelligent idiots, creating road rage.
Used to be you could find posts of substance, now all we have are beatings,and some rubbish about what the Obama crew is doing or not doing.
Is news so scarce or have we lost the high ground, I hate to think that Drudge is beginning to look good.
I have no reason to doubt your sincerity or your word but in all my years of driving the only "offense" I've ever seen by motorists against a cyclist is driving too close - and even that was unavoidable. I have never seen a motorist try to run down a bike.
On the other hand I have witnessed innumerable acts by cyclists against motorists, pedestrians, and other cyclists. Failure to yield, failure to signal, running lights and stop signs, as well as striking cars and pedestrians. I know that they are out-gunned when it comes to comparisons of sheer kinetic energy, but all the more reason to be wary instead of belligerent.
I have tried to preach to my fellow cyclists about being morons.
Some of them get it. Some don't. Most of my pals are not fools. They recognize the futility of trying to resist a two ton motor vehicle piloted by someone with a bad attitude and a filthy mouth.
Personally, I try to avoid pissing off the people in cars. They may not run me down but the next person they encounter on a twenty pound steed is gonna have a bad day when we do stupid stuff.
Stay save FV. Watch yer six.
I have. I've been the guy on the bike who was assaulted, and I wasn't doing squat. Riding down the bleeding sidewalk and minding my own bidnezz.
Oh yeah, it happens. A lot. Not to be disrespectful, but I've been there. That is one of the reasons I got my CHL.
I ain't making no excuses for richardheads on bikes, but we got no chance against a car, even a Prius. That's why I respect the cars, I don't need any more crashes resulting in surgeries and extended recovery times.
We ain't all morons, some of us are just like y'all.
Arrogant twits do it all the time around here. I guess they
think that because they are smaller than a car it gives them
special privileges. Sorry, shoot someone with a .22 or an
elephant gun and it's the same charge if you kill them.
By the way, I chickened out at the bottom of that hill, due to hi-speed wobble. I think 56 or 57 was there. Plus that stop sign came up really fast. Still remember the name of that, Roberts Road in upstate New York. Had a 30 mph tailwind that day, probably a 7% grade. It's really hard to get the bike moving that fast. I was only around 30 yrs old back then, 20-some years ago. I wouldn't try that again unless I had full leathers and a full-face helmet. :P Cheers.
What a beautiful church.
No. It's simply that the interesting posters got banned.
If you are plot it out, you will find a strong correlation between the length of FReepathons and the number of long time FReeper characters zotted.
Just sayin'...
I did that once, in traffic in Toronto. Exhilarating, but never again.
We have a rally here in N. Texas called the Muenster Germanfest. Out on the north side of the course, just past St. Jo, there is a hill called Freefall. I don't know the metrics but when you go over that thing you have about a mile or so of downhill in front of you. Hit that thing with a slight tailwind and it is all about staying off the brakes and avoiding the people who are grabbing them.
I am older now and probably would not do that again. Bwahahaha, my PR was the day after putting my '91 Paramount back together after a full rebuild, hadn't even tested it yet.
I couldn't see a damn thing, the wind was up under my glasses and my eyes were watery and blurry, but you know what bro? Glory is forever, fear is temporary ;)
The Gods did not want me in Valhalla that day, I guess.
There was another hill in upstate NY, east of Delta Reservoir, really steep, that was good for 65-70 mph. Problem was it was covered with patched potholes, bumpy as hell. I never had the nerve. One of our young civilian engineers did it, but he was hardcore, a competitive cyclist. He used to ride his mtn bike to work in the dead of winter. He put tiny screws in his knobby tires, to make studded tires. Back in the Cold War days.
Diff is most of the roads here in Texas are fairly smooth. A lot of chipseal, but for the most part you can go as far as your fear will let you.
I've done some crazy stuff on bikes, and somehow I still sit here and tell stories. Nowdays I mostly ride off-road, my best road days are behind me. Did the Hotter'n Hell Hundred ten times I guess, some other notable rides around here. A couple of 150s and one 24-hour. Made 243 miles on that one, RAAM qualifier, came in 4th overall. That was 20 years ago, couldn't do that now if my life depended on it.
Scaredest I ever felt was down on the River Road in Big Bend NP down along the Rio Grande. Came around a curve on that old gravel road and ran into a big old hombre standing behind an octotillo with his arms crossed, just glaring at me. I wasn't sure what was about to happen, I mean I was a few hundred meters from old Mexico. I rode by without making eye contact and went on my way. Like a fool, most of my time in the Chihuahuan desert has been solo, but I always liked it that way.
Nobody ever said I have good sense. But I have had some fun times, some death defying times, in my day. I don't regret none of it.
Smart, hell no, but epic. Hell yeah!
That's what happens when the dues come do!
I would prefer a smaller clientele myself.
Ban pedal pushers from the public streets!!!
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More engineers than ever are relying on finite element analysis to predict, as closely as possible, how products will behave in the real world. Besides predicting and avoiding product failures, FEA can give companies the confidence required to innovate and leapfrog old design strategies. It can help reduce the number and cost of physical prototypes, allowing new products to be released faster.
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Have we been here before? Remember the unquestioning trust once placed in computer-aided-design software. At one time, engineers used to believe their CAD models produced finished, perfect geometry. Only much later did designers learn about the problems that unhealed geometry and unrealistic default tolerances caused in manufacturing.
An important reason for performing simulation on a digital product model is to reduce or eliminate testing of expensive physical prototypes. Accurate simulation correlates with physical tests, increasing engineering confidence that analysis results reliably predict product operating behavior and durability in the real world. But unless the simulation accurately models real-world complexity, analysis results will never correlate with physical tests. At this point, engineering management may be tempted to throw up their hands and conclude that simulation is a waste of time.
That would be tragic. Because simulation works. One leading consumer products company recently deployed a customized system that conveniently simulates, overnight, every important force that its particular packaging designs undergo.
So how can you make sure your analysis workflow is simulating behavior that will actually occur in the life of your product? Ask some questions.
For example, how are abusive loading conditions defined? How is durability defined? Do these definitions reference the knowledge available from the team of specialist analysts and test engineers who have hands-on experience with your product?
Your analysis software should have sufficient mathematics horsepower under the hood. It should help you make the decisions that are possible for you to make and inspire a healthy respect for the complexity of everything else.


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Based on a study of U.S. prisons by the Washington-based Sentencing Project, in 1990, almost 1 out of every 3 black males was either in prison or jail, or on probation or parole (19). If this wasn't already shocking to hear, it is also appalling to know that more than 1 in 10 Latino men and 78% of black women were also either in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. In Angela Davis's book entitled, "Are Prisons Obsolete?" Davis stuns her audience with the harsh truth about prisons in the United States of America. Although each chapter in her book shocked me, I will be following on the chapter entitled, "Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolitionist Perspectives Toward Prison".
When I first began to read this book, I was extremely skeptical. The way that Davis criticized prisons made me wonder what her thoughts were on alternatives to prisons. All of my life, I have been taught that if you are bad, you are punished. I always knew that people who committed horrible crimes went to prison. What I never thought about before was what happened once the criminals were prisoners. I never considered what happened to these men and women in jail. It is still hard for me to imagine what a life without prisons would be like. Davis compares this common feeling about prisons, to the way many people in the South felt before the abolition of slavery. Many people could not imagine a legal system that was based on racial equality (23). Under the segregation laws of Jim Crow, African-Americans were officially considered second-class citizens. They were not given the opportunity to vote, to have an education or a proper job, and were not given housing rights (25). When comparing slaves to modern day prisoners, the rights and opportunities they have are relatively the same. Slaves may even have been considered to have more freedom and respect. Although slaves suffered extreme physical abuse daily, slave owners most likely still were concerned for the survival of slaves, considering each individual represented an investment (32). In contrast, convicts are not leased or rented out as individuals and their survival or death does not affect the profitability of a convict crew (32).
On Tuesday, we watched a documentary about modern day prisons and how immoral they are. The documentary included many statistics, one in particular which shocked me the most. The statistic stated that more white people are arrested for crimes, but 2/3 of the people in prisons are African-Americans. This shocking statistic can be compared to the 1880's, when guilt was, "frequently assigned to a black person regardless of the perpetrator's race" (30). Although the majority of prisoners in Alabama during this time period were white, African-Americans were still considered "the South's true criminals". The increase of black prisoners in the South during this time, strengthened the belief that African-Americans were "inherently criminal and, in particular, prone to larceny." (29). When reading this section in Davis's book, I couldn't help but be reminded of "The Clark Doll Experiment". In this experiment, Dr. Clark showed children of color two different dolls (one being black and the other being white) and asked the children to identify the doll that looked "bad". Shockingly enough, the majority of the children chose to label the African-American doll as the "bad" doll. This experiment has been repeated several times and each time it is repeated, the results are relatively the same. In my opinion, the results of this experiment may not have been the same if the Black Codes were not established after the abolition of slavery. These codes prohibited vagrancy, absence from work, breach of job contracts, the possession of firearms, and insulting gestures or acts, but were only criminalized if the person was black (28). The results of "The Clark Doll Experiment" can also be compared to modern day racial profiling. With racial profiling, the police can target a person for no reason other than the color of their skin (30).
Another point that Davis makes in this book, is that prisons were first designed to rehabilitate criminals and to provide convicts "with the conditions for reflecting on their crimes and, through penitence, for reshaping their habits and even their souls." (26). A perfect example of this is the imprisonment of Malcolm X in the 1950's. During the time that Malcom was imprisoned, he spent a large amount of his time reading and educating himself. He even noted that, with the books available to him and the time he had in order to read them he, "never had been so truly free" in his life. Malcom X is famously remembered for his prison literature and can clearly look back at the time he was imprisoned as a life changing rehabilitation. Eddie Ellis states in his documentary that, "the more education [convicts] had, the better they would be able to deal with themselves and their problems" (57). Sadly, our government obviously does not feel the same way. In 1994, all Pell Grants were eliminated for prisoners, which then defunded and eventually abolished all higher educational programs in prisons (58).
So what is the harsh reality of our prisons today? The prisoners in our jails are treated as modern-day slaves, without rights and without basic privileges such as an education. Every idea that was originally designed for prisons, in order to rehabilitate convicts and reshape their souls has not been followed through. Our prisons are causing much more damage than they are improving the lives of Americans. Although Davis suggests many alternatives, it is clear that the answer is not easy in how we can successfully eliminate prisons and keep a manageable society without rapists and murderers roaming our neighborhoods. Even though it is ideal to live in a society in which prisons are either just or eliminated completely, I do not believe that any change will occur in the near future.
Davis, Angela. Are Prisons Obsolete?. New York: Open Media/Seven Stories Press, 2003.