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Visiting again? - updates
Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web email@example.com
Alberta Oil
Buys a cup of coffee
"Peace in our time"?? - Russia invades Ukraine, China threatens Taiwan.
United Nations Security Council, the 5 members with veto power
include Russia & China
Russia is attacking Ukraine, Ukraine is so desirable
China threatens Tiawan, Taiwan has TSMC
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),
is the world's largest, best, and most valuable semiconductor manufacturer.
China makes 12 times more steel and burns 7 times as much coal than the U.S.
If the U.S. gets into a serious war, it will have to import more steel from China.
Table of Contents. This site presents a great deal of Nike Hercules historical, technical and operational information and provides extensive links to Nike related books, documents, museums and to other Nike related web sites. This site also provides a photographic tour of Nike site SF-88 (being restored), location and status of Nike sites, and a List of Nike People, some on-line documents, a bulletin board, a search, a Photo Exchange, an FAQ, and a variety of other features.
2019, the Russians are playing "games" again.
Table of Contents
gotta have a little fun
(Model) Nike Launches from BA-79 just outside of Baltimore
from David Zuchero - Jun 22, 2020
I am working with a group of volunteers who are restoring BA-79 just outside of Baltimore. Last week I launched a scale model of the Nike Hercules from BA-79 off of the one of the elevator doors. Probably the first time any Nike every left the launch site at that base, lucky for all of us!
from JP Moore
This example shows the importance of accuracy in your tax return.
The IRS has returned the Tax Return to a man in New York City after he apparently answered one of the questions incorrectly.
In response to the question, ... "Do you have anyone dependent on you?"
the man wrote: ... "12 million single mothers, 7.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crack-heads, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers, 80,000 criminals in over 85 prisons, plus 450 idiots in Congress and a group that call themselves Politicians."
The IRS stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man's response back to the IRS was.... "Who did I leave out?"
Comments on today's world
Why I like retirement
to help ex-President Obama as he ponders terror, FBI, Harry Truman
Civil Asset Forfeiture, A little Bit of Reality, Commentary, the NFL, 9/11
Reagan's Soviet Jokes, We Forgot!, Senate Testimony
"Carbon Footprint" - 2021 Steel production, China produces 52.8% of the world's crude steel.
12.0 times the U.S. steel production, which is less than either India or Japan.
"Green" California buys most of the steel for its bridges and structures from China!
Thomas Sowell, Cancel Culture Comes to France,
Another election year Political Cartoons
Maybe we are getting the quality of government we pay for?? - as of June 2021
- Senior software engineers in San Jose, CA get an average of $166,452 (indeed.com)
(and can live at home)
- Senators and House Representatives get $174,000 per year.
(and need to live in near Washington DC and in their home district!)
- My "liberal" friends point out that they also get free haircuts and other "benefits" -
- Senior Major League Baseball umpires can earn upwards of $350,000 per year.
- The president of the U.S. gets $400,000 plus free haircuts ;--)
- and either protection or abuse from "the media", depending -
- Nancy Farber, CEO of our local hospital, got $1,200,835 in 2019
- I drive extra miles to avoid that screwed up place
- Buster Posey, a SF Giants baseball player, got $22,177,777/year.
- Enough to pay the salaries of 127 members of Congress
- In 2020, Roger Goodell (NFL) was slated to make $40 million
!! Disinformation from Copernicus !!Consensus of philosophers agree with Aristotle.
Disagreeing with Aristotle, Copernicus claims:
a) The earth turns around once a day.
b) The earth goes around the sun once a year.
c) The earth is not the center of the universe.
To halt spread of the above disinformation:
a) Copernicus book is on the Forbidden List.
b) Giordano Bruno didn't recant - burned alive.
c) Galileo recanted - permanent house arrest.
Stamp Out Disinformation and Copernicus
Is the DGB
Disinformation Governance Board
replacing the
Roman Inquisition ??
Sounds like Vladimir Putin's
previous employer - the KGB.
The same KGB of Stalin fame.
What Nike is all about
Created in 2021, an excellent 13 minute Youtube by Scott Manley
Oddly, I can find nothing to quibble about! Very unusual -
Sott also mentions the WWII German AA rocket, the Wasserfall, hand guided, never fielded/used.
Nike Hercules Missile Q5 High Altitude Intercept - 1.5 minutes
This three minute video is a (successful :-) test of an early Nike Ajax destroying a radio controlled WW-II B-17. Later tests verified that the Nike Ajax was also a killer of higher flying sub and supersonic jets such as used by the Soviet Union. The next generation was the Nike Hercules which was faster, longer range, and could carry nuclear warheads to destroy multiple targets.
The "plotting room" equipment shown in this video must have been an engineering prototype - Things were much more crowded when installed in the two vans - among other things, the plotting boards here are horizontal, in the BC van, they are vertical. The analog computer operational amplifiers are different, big tubes here, in the vans they were "miniature" tubes, and on and on - the zero set switches (the round spinning things in the analog computer) were a little different style -
I think you could say that this equipment was "re-packaged" for field use.
Mike Stucka, a staff writer for the Taunton Daily Gazette, was looking for images for a Nike story and e-mailed "This story is interesting, and everyone is so darned helpful."
( That story has disappeared - I should have made a "local copy" ! )
I thought for a bit and replied:
"These were good days for lots of now older folks - and we were quite proud of - the learning experience - some of us even got a little more "mature" ;-)) - doing something useful - better than flipping hamburgers or selling shoes ?
"Most look back and smile, and like to share the warm feeling :-))"
This site has become a cooperative effort as more than 350 people have contributed text, stories, ideas, information, and corrections.
The Nike surface to air missile system was named after the winged goddess of victory in Greek mythology. Two versions of this system defended the U.S. and other places from hostile aircraft.
The 1st version, the Nike Ajax, was deployed in the U.S. from 1954 to the early 1960s. It had an effective range of 25 miles.
The 2nd version, the Nike Hercules, was developed which was faster, had a range of over 75 miles, and had nuclear capability. The Hercules was deployed starting in 1958. In 1963, there were 134 Nike Hercules and 77 Nike Ajax batteries defending the U. S. - as per "Rings of Supersonic Steel".
Both versions above are made light and transportable by wheeled vehicles, transportable in cargo planes for "easy" mobility. With practice and preparation, a site could be moved in a long, hard day. As many parts as practical are made of aluminum or magnesium, the standard power frequency is 400 Hertz (cycles per second) saving iron and weight in transformers and motors as in aircraft.
The Hercules is still in use (with an improved computer and a few other enhancements) by several countries today.
This web site does not present photos, histories, nor detailed status of most NIKE sites. I link to other web sites take up that interesting challenge.
Almost all Nike Hercules related information has been declassified - the only exceptions are some IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) information, some flight characteristics, and some nuclear warhead information. This site has a little information on the Nike Ajax, and no information on Nike Zeus (external link), also youtube A 20-year History of Antiballistic Missile Systems.
I installed and maintained Nike Ajax fire control equipment (radars & computer) at Chicago site C-41 during 1955-1957. Maybe "we" deterred "them". I have served as a volunteer helping restore an old Nike site (SF-88) near San Francisco for the National Park Service.
About submitting photos to this web site.
Colorful Pictures, Movies, Brochures
Two "action" pictures and four movies
Hercules Night Launch,
(17 K bytes)
From previous army pictures at
Hercules Day Launch,
(from NAMFI, 32 K bytes)
From Rolf Dieter G?rigk
On-Line Movies
Nike Ajax Intercept - 1 minute, Internet Archive
Nike Hercules Intercept - 1.5 min, Internet Archive
Hercules Launchs - 6 min, YouTube
Nike Hercules night launch
The missile (with booster) was launched 0.4 seconds ago, is accelerating at 25 times the force of earth's gravity, has risen 60 feet, and it is now going 210 miles per hour.
Four seconds from now, the missile will be:
If the target is 90 miles approaching at mach 1.5, the missile will meet the target 60 miles away in 90 seconds.
- going 1,700 miles per hour straight up,
- separated from the booster, (the black flaming thing with the white fins),
- turning (diving) towards the intercept point with the target,
- starting the sustainer rocket engine to reach 2,700 miles per hour.
The Nike Hercules shown here defended major U.S. target areas against aircraft attack from 1958 to 1974. It had an effective range of over 75 miles and a speed of mach 3.6. South Korea has over 200 of these missiles, with associated radars and guidance systems, currently in service.
Its predecessor, the smaller Nike Ajax, was in service from 1954 through about 1965. It had a range of 25 miles and a speed of mach 2.5.
... ... Click here for expanded graphics scanned by Pete Wurzbach C/4/562 Alvarado, Texas
2.3 MBytes
A short easy introduction to the Nike Anti-Aircraft system - from Michael Keller - posted May 3, 2013 Click on image to download the .pdf "Camp Sarafi", South Korea
from Al Dietz ... I believe the balloon antennas are left to right: TTR, TRR, and MTR. The LOPAR acquisition radar is behind the building.
I don't normally post pictures of individual sites (too many), but isn't this bleak ?? Gads - imagine winter -
A Great Photo Study of an abandoned Nike site - by Rich Lewis
Lumberton, New Jersey PH23/25, Rich Lewis photo study
A local HTML version, (I worry about "good stuff" going away.)
Intercept - A little more technical ;-))
This is a plot of a Nike Hercules intercepting a target flying at 52,000 feet.
The vertical scale is altitude in feet. (max 100,000 feet)
The left trace is the Nike missile, the right is the target.
The horizonal scale is computed time to intercept, in seconds.
The middle is time zero, intercept.
Note: Against high flying targets such as this, the Hercules does not necessarily go above the target.
from TM9-1400-250-10/2 page 36, Manual
Cold War in South Florida, ... Study available free online - posted Mar 4, 2010
The Cuban Missile Crisis by James Whitaker (Nike, South Florida)
3 MBytes
Click on image to download the .pdf
Good news. The Cold War Study of Nike Hercules in South Florida ($19.95 plus shipping) has been re-released in pdf format as a public domain document.
The tours of HM-69 has been overwhelming at Everglades National Park for the second year. Tours will be conducted through the end of March.
Charles D. Carter
The Cold War is an Electronic War (Soviets shot down 23 of our ELINT Planes) 36 minutes through 44 minutes
Michael Keller wrote (Feb 2009) & (Dec 2010) & (Aug 2011) & (Dec 2012)
Cover of 2 MByte brochure Just found this nice piece on Ebay. Printing Date is 10-15-56. "The purpose of this booklet is to inform high-school graduates-and their parents-of the matchless opportunities that lie within the Army Antiaircraft Command." Well, most of the once-adressed kids will be retired by now, but maybe they remember this booklet. Its a 3 page folder, size 500mm x 100mm. (Yes I prefer metric) :) But look, on the frontcover: seems that track LIMA296 has slipped through!! :)) It has a beautiful painting inside, and a funny 70's scene on the backside. It contains the original Team Nike decal, and a small brochure. Both items came to me together with the MISSILE MASTER booklet. [600 KB]
The diameter of the decal is 4,06 inch. (103 mm)
with kind regards from germany,
A recruiting brochure featuring the Nike Hercules, "Now making its appearance on-site."
Nike History
- Acoustic Ears
- Pre-Nike (Anti-Aircraft Guns)
- Remember history? World's Biggest Bomb
- Nike Historical Information
- First Nike Missile Site
- Nike Technical Background, Then & Now
- Nike Ajax destroying a B-17 bomber - from Kevin Appert
- Nike Hercules, - 10 minutes - recommended by Jon Little
- "Archie to SAM - A Short Operational History of Ground-Based Air Defense" - a Great book!! - InternetArchive, Amazon
Nike in Overall Air Defense
TU-4 "Bull" Bomber
photo credit Wikipedia
TU-95 "Bear" Bomber
TU-22M "Backfire" Bomber
photo credit Wikipedia
?Soviet Airfield?
A response
- 416L is the name of the North American air defense system. ( 28 page, 3.3 MByte .pdf document )
- DEW Line Distant Early Warning Line - more
- Pine Tree Line (with techie error about how radar cooks)
- Some info on Texas Towers 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, AirForce, ...
- SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment)
- MIT - Lincoln Laboratory - SAGE
Nike Site Technical information
- Nike Site Overview
- Nike Integrated Fire Control (IFC) Area Overview
- Acquisition Radars
- Battery Control
- Tracking Radars
- Computer
- IFC Test Instruments other than Radar Aiming Alignment
- Lesson 8. Target Simulation - 1.2 megabytes
- - IFF Symbols and FUIF symbols
- Greg's Nike Utilities fans, heaters, event recorder, ...
- Nike Radars and Computer Manual, MMS subcourse number 150
- Nike Training Films
- Nike Launcher Area Overview
- Formal Names
- Nike Hercules Updates Allied Supportability Program
- Good news ;-)) Nike not considered obsolete. ;-))
Nike Operational information
- Command and Control of Nike Batteries
- NORAD History via Greg Brown
- Training
- Nike Hercules deliveries, from Ken Bahr
- Life on a Nike Site
- Nike Missions Surface-to-Air, Surface-to-Surface, Radar Bomb Scoring
- Nike Battery Alert
- Nuclear Nike Launch Authentication Procedures
- Target Practice
- Nike Site Support
- Documents from a Battery Commander - from Earl Close
- The National Guard *is* Ready
- US Army units on NATO Countries Batteries -by Richard Scheffler
- Life before Transistors
- Nike "Kill Ratio"? or "How good was Nike"??
- Closing a Nike Site by Edward Dowd
Support for Nike Field Batteries (and museums)
On-Line documents - Longer range radars another site
- Un-Numbered Documents
- Numbered Documents
- Un-Numbered Documents - sorted
- 412L Aircraft Warning & Control System 1959-1980 7 megabytes, from Jim Tarbet
412L Systems Drawing, from Jim Tarbet
- Ajax Firing Report - Text , Event Recorder from ???
- An Antiaircraft Artilleryman 1939-1970, - my life in the antiaircraft for 30 years from private in 205th CA(AA) Seattle National Guard to retired Army colonel." by Wilfred O. Boettiger (now for sale at Xlibris)
- Antiaircraft Journal 1948-1954 - spotted by Mark Morgan via Ron Pickinpaugh added July 2010
- Army National Guard in Air Defense 51-74 - from Danny Johnson - 18 MBytes
- Army Preventive Maintenance Magazine - Notes, Nike - from Michael Keller
- Colonel Loop's Nike papers, added Oct 6, 2019
- Emerging Shield .PDF from the Air Force History Office. - spotted by Peter Goetz P.Geol.
- EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) Effects from Nuclear Space Bursts 1962 Test Bursts and Analysis, EPRI HEMP 2017 Executive Summary, EPRI HEMP 2017
- Excess Report, NIKE Hercules Site D-FW-20, Terrel, Texas,
- - .pdf, 1.12 Megabytes, includes site drawings, thanks to Mark Berhow,
- Field Trip to North Bay - (to see a SAGE installation) by Gordon Bell (12 megabyte .pdf)
- History of the OOZLEFINCH by Errol Porter (Published with permission.)
- Hydraulic fluids, specs, from Greg Brown - Launcher fluid is AeroShell 41, Elevator fluid is Tellus S2MX 68
- [ICBM] INTERCEPT TEST HITS BULL'S-EYE We couldn't do this with Nike
- Last Line of Defense from the National Park Service
- Missile Master - brochure - Thanks to Robert C Barr
- NATO Nike Upgrades Pamphlet scanned by NPS
- Nike AJAX Historical Monograph OCR, PDF, by M. Cagle
- Nike Elevator Student Handout
- Nike Elevator Training - Ft Belvoir
- NIKE Hercules in service in the Royal Netherlands Airforce - Updated Dec 2018
- Nike-Hercules Technical Data - by Western Electric, about half the pages, 10 MBytes - from Greg Brown
- Nike-Hercules System Nuclear Training Directorate - via Greg Brown (4.8 MB)
- Nike HERCULES Historical Monograph OCR, PDF, by M. Cagle, via M. Berhow
- Nike - U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous ..., also local copy via Ken Conger - Mar 2014 - 3.3 MB
- NikeAjaxOrd&PropellantHandlingProcedures-1-July-1954-TempSites.pdf 1.2 MB, from Ron Plante Mar 21, 2014
- Production of Hercules Missiles by Douglas Aircraft - thanks to Tony Moore
- RAND Study RM-2560 NIKE Ajax reliability study from Cory Newman
- Redstone Arsenal, 11 minute publicity video - spotted by Olav ten Broek
- "Ring of Fire" Could Nike missiles have protected U.S. cities from a Soviet attack? on www.radones.org
- Introduction to SAGE, 14 page visitor's document
- A SAGE Movie - thanks to Ben Abzug
- The Nike Preservation Group Newsletters
- SF-88 Nike News
- Greg Brown "was trolling through the internet on the NPS GGNA, and found the document that was submitted to the Feds for SF-88 to be an Historical site in 1973."
- The Launching Pad 5th Missile Battalion Veterans
- To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program Warning - 70 megabytes of .pdf - - spotted by Dave Fields
- U.S. Army Air Defense Digest 1965
- "US Army Air Defense Digest, 1972" a Management Overview of US Air Defenses
- U.S. Army Nike Brochure (Improved Hercules, recruiting)
- "US Army Air Defense Digest, 1966" a Management Overview of US Air Defenses
- Vigilant and Invincible(local back-up)
- W-25: The Davidsonville Site and Maryland Air Defense, 1950-1974 by Merle T. Cole
- "What We Have, We Shall Defend: An Interim History and Preservation Plan for Nike Site SF-88L, Fort Barry, California" by J.A. Martini and S.A. Haller, National Park Service GGNRA, San Francisco, CA, Feb 1998 External link to NPS, local copy - (870 kBytes)
- Winged Victory - The History of the Nike Missile Training Program At Fort Bliss 48 pages, 7 megabytes
- YouTube
- Numbered Documents - sorted- a .pdf file of the manual - spotted by Tom Page
- Two lists of Nike Documents, List-Nike-Technical-Manuals.pdf and GOGA-List-of-Manuals.pdf from Charles D. Carter
- Eight of the GOGA scanned manuals size reduced by https://www.ilovepdf.com/compress_pdf
- 750-1-2 Preventive Maintenance Guide for Commanders Aug 1975 - 6.3 MegaBytes - via Google Books
- AD-755-200 Army-Inflatable-Tents Reference Manual on Shelters - Nike Maintenance Protection - pages 36-39, 10 MBytes - spotted by Charles D. Carter June 2011 ( pages 36-39 only 250 KBytes)
- FM 44-1 - July 1962 1965 U.S. Army - Air Defense Employment
- FM 44-1A - September 1965 U.S. Army - Air Defense Employment- a .pdf file of the Hercules part of the manual - via Greg Brown
- FM 44-8 Antiaircraft Operations Center and Antiaircraft Artillery Information Service December 1954, 8 MByte .pdf, scanned by Cory Newman
- FM 44-8 - Army Air Defense Command Posts August 1962, with change 1 - 1964, 2 MByte .pdf, scanned by Cory Newman
- FM 44-9 - AN/TSQ-51 Missile Mentor System, August 1967, 5.4 MByte, copy from Cory Newman
- FM 44-10 U.S. Army Air Defense Fire Distribution System AN/FSG-1 (Missile Master) February 1963, 6 MByte .pdf, scanned by Cory Newman, images trimmed by Ed Thelen
- FM 44-16B/CM, Commander's Manual, Hercules Missile Crewman, MOS 16B Google Books, via Greg Brown
- FM-44-24Q1-2 Soldier's Manual MOS 24Q - Nike Hercules Fire Control Mechanic Skill Levels 1 and 2 Google Books
- FM44-80 - Procedures and Drills of the Nike I System - Table of Contents, Manual - 24 MByte .pdf
- MMS Subcourse Number 150 - Nike Radars and Computer Manual, MMS Subcourse Number 150, revised November 1973
- MMS Subcourse Number 151 - Nike Missile and Test Equipment Manual, MMS Subcourse Number 151, revised November 1973
- MMS Subcourse Number 900 - Lesson 2. Major Units of the Nike Hercules Missile - from Manual, MMS Subcourse Number 900, "Nike Missile Maintenance" Revised March 1973 - 2.1 megabytes
- MWO 9-1400-250-30-22 Modification Work Order, to Launcher area
- PIO4324, "On Site On Guard", 1963 2 MBytes
- ST-44-188 - AN/TPS-1G, a close relative of the AN/FPS-75 ABAR acquisition radar used in some Nike sites
- Introduction to Radar ST-44-188-1 - from Chuck Zellers
- Introduction and Start-Stop to the AN/TPS-1G ST-44-188-2G - from Chuck Zellers - 3.8 megabytes
- Modulator and transmitter of the AN/TPS-1G ST-44-188-3G - from Chuck Zellers - 2.5 megabytes
- AN/TPS-1G Receiver System ST-44-188-4G - from Chuck Zellers - 2.08 megabytes
- AN/TPS-1G Moving Target Indicator System ST-44-188-5G
- (Chapters 1 - 4) - 2.1 megabytes (Chapters 4+ - ) - 2.7 megabytes - from Chuck Zellers
- AN/TPS-1G Indicator System ST-44-188-6G - 3.8 megabytes - from Chuck Zellers
- T1 Field Manual 7.6 megabytes - thanks to Rolf D Goerigk
- TM-5-1450-201-15 Elevator, Hydraulic, Guided Missile, Automatically Operated Doors - 31 MBytes
and Elevator Docs via Bruce Long,
TM 9-1400-250-10/2 - A great introduction to the Nike Hercules system, in technical manual format - 135 pages, and also in smaller sections. (There is also a Tactical Control section) TM-9-1410-250-12/1 - OPERATOR AND ORG MAINTENANCE MANUAL: MIM-14A AND MIM-14B (NIKE-HERCULES AND IMPROVED NIKE-HERCULES) November 1967 TM-9-1410-250-24P-1-2 Organizational, Direct Support and General Support Maintenance Repair Parts and Special Tools list Including Depot Maintenance Repairs parts and special Tools - Illustration Supplement for ... MIM-14B and MIM-14C - - 10 MB .pdf TM 9-1410-1250-12/1(FMS) Intercept-Areal Guided Missile MIM-14A, B, C - July 1981, 88 MBytes - from Rolf Goerigk TM 9-1430-250-10 Operators's Manual: RADAR COURSE DIRECTION CENTRAL (HERCULES) - scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286NIKE I Systems, - 4.5 MB - from Greg Brown TM 9-1430-250-10/3 Operators's Manual: ELECTRONIC COUNTER-COUNTERMEASURES: RADAR COURSE DIRECTION CENTRAL (HERCULES)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM9-1430-250-12P/10/2 Illustration Supplement for ... (Improved Nike-Herc) - 12 MByte TM 9-1430-250-15P/2/2 Supplement for RADAR COURSE DIRECTING CENTRAL ANTENNA-RECEIVER-TRANSMITTER GROUP ACQUISITION OA-1601/T ... Part 1, Part 2 scanned by Michael Keller "from Germany" - Acq rotation drive near page 88 TM-9-1430-250-15P/9/1 Radar Course Directing Central Director Station - 1969 @ SF-88 TM-9-1430-259-15P/10/2 (IFC) Tracking Radar Control Trailer TM-9-1430-250-20-5 Organizational Maintenance Theory: Radar Course Directing Central (less HIPAr)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM-9-1430-250-20-11 Organizational Maintenance Theory: Theory: Low Power Acquisition Radar System (ATBM)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM-9-1430-250-24P-9-1 special tools ... for Director Station @ SF-88 TM 9-1430-250-24P-22-2 ILLUSTRATION SUPPLEMENT FOR ANTENNA-RECEIVER-TRANSMITTER GROUP, MISSILE TRACKING TRAILER MOUNTED OA-1340/MPAA 1430-000-586-4996- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM 9-1430-250-35 FIELD AND DEPOT MAINTENANCE: THEORY: ACQUISITION RADAR SYSTEM (Hercules)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM 9-1430-250-35P/2/2 (LOPAR) ACQUISITION RADAR SYSTEM, Illustrations, Assembly Parts Breakdown (Hercules)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM-9-1430-251-12/3 Unit Schematic Diagrams - Computer System and Data Recorder @ SF-88 TM-9-1430-252-12/2 Unit Schematic Diagrams - Target Tracking and Missile Tracking Radar Systems and Radar Test Set TS-847/MSW-1 - October 1966 @ SF-88 TM-9-1430-253-12-4 Overall Physical description of the Radar Course Directing Central - Improved NIKE-HERCULES (32 MBytes)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM9-1430-253-14P_2_2 Nike Plot Pages 125 to 152 TM9-1430-253-34 TTR, TRR, MTR, Radar Test Set - DS & GS Main. Man. - Google scan, via Jack Anderson TM 9-1430-254-34 DS AND GS MAINTENANCE MANUAL: ACQUISITION ANTENNA-RECEIVER-TRANSMITTER GROUP (Hercules)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM 9-1430-255-12-1 OPERATOR AND ORGANIZATIONAL MAINTENANCE MANUAL: CHECK PROCEDURES: (LOPAR) (IMPROVED Hercules)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM-9-1430-255-12-2 Unit Schematic Diagrams. Low Power Acquisition Radar System (LOPAR)- scanned by NPS, collection GOGA 35286 TM-9-1430-257-20 Hercules Acquisition Radar @ SF-88 TM 9-1430-1256-12/1(FMS) Check Procedures, Target Tracking, Target Ranging, Missile Tracking Radar Systems and Radar Test Set Group - Allied Configuration, September 1983, 28 MBytes - from Rolf Goerigk ???? Nike Hercules Overall System Description TM 9-1440-10-1 Guided Missile Launching Set (Hercules) (incomplete) Introduction, Chapter 2, Appendicies TM9-1440-250-10-2 List of Nike Technical Manuals - from Charles Carterside truss, loading rack support, launcher transport modification kit, and launcher basic accessory kit TM 9-1440-250-12/2 Aug 66 - Mobile Launching Set -
Extracts for an Army Correspondence Course Program of the US Army Air Defense School - for use with ADA Subcourse 8000 Nike Hercules Missile Crewman,, Part 1 (16B20) and ADA Subcourse 802 - Part 11 (16B40) - from Dennis Claudio, added August 27, 2021, 8.8 MBytes
TM9-1440-250-20-1 Hercules Guided Missile Launching Set Launcher repair kit.pdf - 9 pages from Michael Keller TM9-1440-250-29P-6-2 Illustrated Supplement Rail, Launching-Handling Guided Missile, M3A1 1450-00-474-0717 TM_9-1440-252-34 Hercules Monorail Laucher, Launching-Handling Rail, TM_9-1970-2_Feb_58, part 1, part 2, Ammunition Antiaircraft Guided Missile M1 (Nike-Ajax), Identification, Description, Packing, Care, Handling, Preservation, and Destruction ( each about 4 megabytes ) from Scott Murdock via Ron Plante TM9-1970-2-35P Field and Depot Maintenance Ammunition, Guided Missile, M1 (Nike-Ajax), Repair Parts and Special Tools List
- 2 MBytes, from Michael Keller via James Fee Langendoen
TM9-5000-3 - NIKE I Computer TM9-5000-9 - Acquisition Radar Circuitry - 13.5 MByte, TM9-5000-13 - Nike I Computer - SAM Problem Analysis, DC Amplifiers, Automatic Zero Setting, Servo Loop Elements, and Power Distribution - 6.3 MBytes TM9-5000-14 - Computer Prelaunch Section and Initial Turn Section Circuitry 2.7 MB TM9-5000-15 - Computer Steering Section Circuitry - 6.8 Megabytes TM9-5000-18 NIKE 1 Systems, TTR Transmitter and Receiver Circuitry - 8 MBytes TM9-5000-19 - Target Tracking Radar Range and Presentation Circuitry 3.7 MB TM9-5000-20 - TTR Antenna Positioning Circuitry - 10 MB TM9-5000-21 - Missile-Tracking Radar Circuitry - 10 MB TM9-5000-28 NIKE 1 Systems, Nike I Missile Guidance Unit
TM9-5000-29 - Missile Electrical Checkout Equipment - 9.3 MByte TM 9-6092-1-1 - Antiaircraft Fire Control System M33C and M33D Operation, June 1956 TOE 44-535T, 1959-TO&E, 753 KBytes, pdf, from Charles Carter
Places to visit, physical and on-line
- Red Canyon Archeology, (20 MB), via Mark Sale, permission granted
- J. P. Moore's RED CANYON RANGE CAMP web site
- YouTube Nike videos
- Nike Movies on Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=nike and
http://www.archive.org/details/nikeherc01 - To open, click on "Unknown" in the "Stream (help)" box. Service can be a little slow. Spotted by Mike Stucka
- Manufacturing Nike equipment
- How to Visit SF-88, the Nike Site being restored
- Photo tour of SF-88, the Nike Site being restored
- Locations of Former Nike Sites
- Maps showing Nike sites
- Nike Museums & Displays
- Nike, Military related and other favorite WWW sites
- - I understand the Army is about to obliterate listed Site Summit March 2004 Help Save Summit, -spotted by Thomas Page
People and Trip Reports
- List of Nike People, Please add your self to the list
- History of Nike SF-88 Restoration - just starting -
- Current volunteers at SF-88
- On-going Maintenance at SF-88
- SF-88 ?Benign? Neglect
- "Nike and Me" by Elliot Deutsch - added Dec 2016
- 2004 Red Canyon Reunion organized by Ron Pickinpaugh
- Ed's Crete Trip Report (NAMFI Nike Firings), side trip to Bletchley Park
- Trip Reports
- Ft. Bliss Foreign Student Handout Handout .pdf 8 Megabytes from A.J.M. (Jos) Weijenberg
- 1999 White Sands Missile Range Trip Report and Red Canyon Reunion
- People (even soldiers) like pay.
- 2012 Florida Nike 2/52 Reunion ( lots of big pictures )
- Ken Bahr Docs mostly Surface to Surface development testing
and The 1974 digital conversion of Nike Hercules.
Stories, Questions
- Nike People Stories
- Nike Technical Stories
- An illustrated article by a Nike officer at BA-18, gives a flavor of the army, including scrounging for trading material ;-)) From the Coast Defense Study Group (CDSG) Journal, thanks to editor Mark Berhow. 5 MB .pdf, Dec 2013
- Nike in Movies - Mark Ferguson wrote "LA site in Malibu, was used in the movie, "Escape from the Planet of the Apes". You can see a Deuce and a half rolling out of the admin main gate and the mess hall was used for the "Hospital" in the movie.
Also, there is an episode of Mannix, where they run around a HiPar dome, that was in the IFC area."
- "A "Cold War" decade as a Missileman in Air Defense" - by Eric P. Muth - updated Nov. 2006
- Once busy "Red Canyon Range Camp now dozes" - by Jim Eckles
- Ken's & Friend's RCAT Korner (stories)
- Images of Soviet bombers and airfields
- Frequently Asked Questions ("FAQ")Radar Bomb Scoring - the Air Force using Nike equipment
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- Invasion Of Japan - "I was scheduled to die"
- Burial at sea via Thomas Pepper
- North Platte, Nebraska
- Soviet SA-2 missile system
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- Vietnam memorial by state & city
- a short video WWII Recon Pilot - Spitefire via Ron Pickinpaugh added 2018
- a proposed documentary film "Missiles at the Gate" - Sept 2017
- Federal Color Standards
- Military Humor
- Nike Hercules Manufacturing
An excellent Nike System description - in French by "Gaston J. Dessornes" - 10 MB .pdf, July 2014 A Nike Ajax Missile restoration project - Turning junk into beauty
- then came Oct 2012, Hurricane Sandy - devastation :-((
- A Nike Simulation "Game" - Sept. 2018
- Hpasp provides Soviet equipment simulation from this web site.
- I (Ed Thelen) have not run the above program and can guarantee nothing.
Even better than The Statue of Liberty :-)) The Famous Patton Speech What has America become? 2nd Verse of the Star Spangled Banner added June 7, 2010 Ratings of Veterans Charities - from Jim Biles Bull Crap Journalism Help with Cold War Metal - letter from Jim Rhodes Cold War Veterans Association Nike Folk Art Photo Exchange Start your own Nike Web Site
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Nike Recruiting Brochure
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Search for people
- Yarbourgh's "How To" book
Are there Nike Models, Kits, Dimensions?
Nike Aircraft Kill vs. Patriot Scud Kill
Remedial Efforts Thanking Veterans - newest near topSpotted by Jay Youngbluth
- Star Spangled Banner As You've Never Heard It via EPM
- Little Known VA Benefit (updated Jan 2018) - from James Biles - jtbiles @ earthlink . net
- Robin Williams as the American Flag
the "NFL" :-(( via Thomas Pepper, Oct 1, 2017
I'm now watching what we Americans call "Soccer" :-))
- Burial At Sea via Thomas Pepper
- An Airline Captain's Report via Thomas Pepper
- Taps with Andre Rieu's orchestra. Full length. Beautiful trumpet solo.
Remember that silly tale spread by the Obama administration about the cause of the Benghazi Massacre
"Someone in Los Angeles offended Muslims."
reminded me of this "joke",
and a not so funny poem.
Little Known VA Benefit - from James Biles - jtbiles @ earthlink . net Angel Flight It is the Veteran - J.P. Moore votes this best Veteran vs ("liberal") Politican Jane Fonda Memorial Bill Mauldin, for Willie&Joe, 1921-2003, 1.1 million Veterans do not get the multi-million dollar bonuses handed out to bailed out Wall Street gougers TAPS Ann Margret :-)) Memorial for Darrell "Shifty" Powers of "Band of Brothers" A Simple Thank You The Rock The Final Inspection It Won't Be Long And They Will Be Gone - forwarded by Byron Standing Guard at the 38th Parallel
From Richard Brody, author of "Standing Guard at the 38th Parallel" - What really pisses me off- glad you asked- is that the dogs killed in Vietnam have a website dedicated to them, listing each of the dog's names. None of the US soldiers lost (killed) in Korea after the war, (which never really ended), are listed anywhere as casualties. Only their moms, wives and families know, and some of us who were there and lost buddies :>(( Veteran's Day Poem Christmas Poem Simple Soldier Experts or at least helpful Stories about SAGE, Sage Talk, manual Introduction to SAGE AN/FSQ-7 & AN/FSQ-8 collecting aadcp information Military Occupation Specialty Codes (MOS)
Formal identifications (as per Ron Parshall).
Nike Ajax
TARGET TRACKING OA-858/MPA-4 Missile Tracking Radar OA-859 MPA-4
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Thank you
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Good news ;-)) Nike not considered obsolete. ;-))
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Subject: Status updat of my FOIA to Redstone Arsenal for the history of the Nike Hercules weapons system by Mary T Cagle
From: James Newman < jamesnewman1976 @ yahoo . com >
Date: Mon, July 17, 2017
Dear Ed,
I just got my FOIA to Redstone Arsenal US Army Material Command denied. I am going to appeal within the 60 day time limit. This document was denied under Executive order 13526 section 3.3 Section 4 "For State of the art technology" the document will remain classified for 50 years from its creation date until 2023. Vacuum tube technology of the early to mid-1950s is not state of the art technology. This system went defunct in 1980 when the last Nikes were decommissioned in Florida and Alaska.
Cory Newman
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What a ride
Silly guard!
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Style is an attitude
Ottawa, Canada
Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia
She Looks On
Dubai, UAE
A girl visits one of the oldest holy sites in the world, the Temple at Garni. This temple was first constructed in the 3rd century BC ot 77 AD depending on your source.
A Jolly Eyptian rides a donkey
Aswan, Egypt
Electrozavodskaya Station, Moscow
More sound than advice
Mumbai, India
Cuban Style
Havana, Cuba
This is the first paper recycling plant in Nairobi. It started a few years ago and is swamped with paper - as you can see. Recycling is just starting to catch on as both a profitable and societally/environmentally beneficial activity.
The Lost Piramids
Giza, Egypt
Thumbs up
Al Shamkha, UAE
Against the Current
No bike lanes, not even sidewalks. Not a single provision to encourage any mode of transport other than fossil fuel burning vehicles.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Layers of New York, NY
Three school boys. The recently rich country of the UAE is speding billions overhauling its education system. It is proving very difficult. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Scarcity, whether artificial or real defines our lives. We live in the desert.

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eOne strikes multi-territory deal for The Good Lie.
eOne has inked a multi-territory deal for script The Good Lie, which will star Reese Witherspoon.
The deal for UK, Spain, Benelux and Australia/NZ marks eOne's first acquisition for Spain after its acquisition of Alliance.
Lionsgate International represented international rights on behalf of the film's producers.
From Canadian director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar), The Good Lie tells the story of a young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the US with three other lost boys.
They develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman (Witherspoon) assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to his new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
Written by Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire), Ron Howard and Brian Grazer produce with Molly Smith and Karen Kahela Sherwood. Kim Roth and Deepak Nayar are executive producers.
The deal was negotiated by eOne's worldwide acquisitions lead Lara Thompson, evp, filmed entertainment for eOne.


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Following Microsoft's investment in a Nook spin-off and the continued success of Barnes & Noble's e-reading empire, we can expect to see some serious changes in the future. In fact, William Lynch, who heads up Nook, has already let a few of them slip.
Talking to Fortune, Lynch has been explaining how the Microsoft deal will affect Nook and how the future of e-reading will see publishers working more closely with technology. Perhaps most interesting are his suggestions of using NFC:
"We're going to start embedding NFC chips into our Nooks. We can work with the publishers so they would ship a copy of each hardcover with an NFC chip embedded with all the editorial reviews they can get on BN.com. And if you had your Nook, you can walk up to any of our pictures, any our aisles, any of our bestseller lists, and just touch the book, and get information on that physical book on your Nook and have some frictionless purchase experience. That's coming."
In fact, in the interview he hints that this could be coming some time this year. Elsewhere, he talks about how the deal with Microsoft was motivated by the fact that "they bring... hundreds of millions of screens and windows", through which Nook can leverage their understanding of reading and relationships with publishers.
But it seems that the relationship with Microsoft is about more than filling screens; it's about deep integration with Windows, too:
"Microsoft is obviously very entrenched in Windows. On the reading software side, in reading technologies, they're making interesting integrations into Windows, potentially Office. That kind of work has already started... imagine an integration where an information worker, student, author, consumer, creates something in Office and has it immediately published for sale through the Nook book store. It starts to open a lot of exciting possibilities."
That makes it sound like Barnes & Noble could be targeting Apple's iBook Author—only through the most widely used OS in the world. It will be interesting to see exactly what developments come out of Nook over the coming year. [Fortune]


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If you are stressing because there is not a single bed-and-breakfast in Bugarach, France (purportedly the only place in the world safe from the predicted Mayan apocalypse of 2012), relax. For a variety of reasons, the world is NOT going to end tomorrow. December 21, 2012, has been ballyhooed for years as the date the world will end. Fin. Finito. That's all folks. And I'm not paying that cable bill either.
Except… that it won't be.
The list of "Yep-that's-it. The-world-has-become-as-evil-as-it-possibly-can-be-and-____________(your god here)-has-HAD-ENOUGH" is a loooooooooooooooooooong one, folks. Better get crackin' on buying that gift for your aunt, because no one is gonna give you an eternal excuse. Here is a brief list of the various "We Are DOOMED!" scenarios, all come and gone:
634 BCE and Some Pissed-Off Eagles
Many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years.
1st Century, Early Christians
Some first-century Christians expected Jesus to return within one generation of his death. According to some scholars, Paul the Apostle was one of these.
375-400 CE, Martin of Tours
Stated that the world would end before 400. Writing ""There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power."
500 CE, Hippolytus of Rome,Sextus Julius Africanus,Irenaeus
All three predicted Jesus would return in the year 500.
January 1, 1000: Pope Sylvester II
The Millenium Apocalypse. Various Christians predicted the end of the world on this date, including Pope Sylvester II. Riots in Europe.
Panicky Europeans, 1346-51
The black plague spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
1656, Various Christians
There's always been a lot of monkeying around with numbers, with sects swearing that they have figured out the secret formula (yeah…riiiight…. we still don't know what, precisely, the secret spices are in KFC…). Anyhoo…. "[s]ome Christians believed the world would end this year, as 1656 was the number of years between Creation and the Great Flood in the Bible."
1697, Cotton Mather
Well-known for his love of a good prank (kidding), "[t]his Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times."
(Okay.. this is getting tedious. There are literally dozens more but in the interest of time, and of course, our imminent demise, let's fast forward to the twentieth century).
Feb. 4, 1962: "Psychic" Jeane Dixon
Predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world.
1975, Jehovah's Witnesses
In 1966, Jehovah's Witnesses estimated it had been 6000 years since man's creation; therefore, in the fall of 1975 it would be "appropriate" for Christ's thousand-year reign to begin. These claims were repeated throughout the late 1960. In 1974, they reaffirmed their belief that there was just a short time remaining before "the wicked world's end."
Oct/Nov 1982: Pat Robertson, Evangelical Pastor
In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982. (Well, that was the year of my first date, an event many would've predicted would bring the world to an end so perhaps a little leeway for ol' Pat).
April 29, 1987: Leland Jensen, Halley's Comet
Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1988, causing widespread destruction.
July, 1999: Nostradamus
A prediction attributed to Nostradamus stating the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears of the end.
Annnnnnnnnnnd… Presenting… Despite All Historical Evidence and Obvious Fallacies to the Contrary! THE MAYANS!
The so-called Mayan apocalypse at the start of the 14th b'ak'tun. The Earth is destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova.
Good night, all. Unless I am destroyed by aliens or burned to a crisp by a supernova, I'll see you next week with some elegant toasts for the New Year, in which, surely, there will be predictions that all of us will become toast.


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A few weeks ago, we heard that the San Francisco Port Authority had red-tagged Pier 38 — putting up warnings that the space was unsafe. This is a big deal because Pier 38 is something of a tech hub. It's home to tenants including Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, Automattic, True Ventures, 99 Designs, EGG HAUS, and more.
While Robert Scoble grabbed some pictures showing just how serious these notices were — it's never good to see a big red sign with the word "UNSAFE" on the door to your business — Polaris' Ryan Spoon downplayed the warnings. Here's what he said to us at the time:
Over the last few days, Pier 38 has undergone a management change (we have always been sub-tenants). The City of San Francisco has notified Pier 38 building management of specific code violations. We are in close contact with building management and the port authority – and we have been informed that normal operations should continue at this time. Meanwhile, the pier is as vibrant and active as ever: home to Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, Automattic, True Ventures, 99 Designs and many more. We're working to better understand what the management change and ports plans mean for us all.
Fast forward to last week. The Port Authority put up new signs indicating that all tenants had to vacate the property within 30 days. But some tenants were trying to negotiate ways to extend this window, and there was hope they could do that. But today, after a meeting between the Port Authority and the Pier 38 tenants, that hope has died. Everyone must be out by September 30.
Again, this is awful news for the tech community that has thrived in the space which resides right on the water in the city. An important part of WordPress operates out of here. And the Dogpatch space Polaris set up gave a first home to startups like Instagram.
Reached for comment, Spoon confirms the decision today and writes:
The Port Authority of San Francisco notified all Pier 38 tenants, including us, that we must move out by September 30th. This is obviously unfortunate for the Pier and for the Dogpatch Labs – which has hosted over 250 entrepreneurs and 100+ companies like Instagram, Formspring, TaskRabbit, Recurly, Yardsellr, LOLapps, Appjet, etc. In total, these companies have raised over $100m in seed and venture funding. We are actively working on finding a great new Dogpatch Labs home and hope to be settled and taking applications by end of Q3.


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text: SCM Staff 24 May 2012 WCC Player of the Year is just one of the honors sophomore Katie Le '14 has garnered both on and off the SCU tennis courts. In her second season at SCU, Katie Le '14 continued to raise the bar by collecting WCC Player of the Year and All-WCC First Team honors for both her singles and doubles tennis play. It's the first time in school history a women's tennis player has been so rewarded. And on May 23, she took to the courts at the University of Georgia, becoming the first Santa Clara student-athlete ever to qualify for the NCAA Championship Singles tournament. Le made it to the third set, but lost to Abigail Tere-Apisah of Georgia State. "I'm really excited about being named WCC Player of the Year because I've been working really hard all season long. It feels great to see my hard work pay off and be recognized for my efforts," Le said. "It's an honor, especially with the type of competition we play in the WCC." The Milpitas, Calif., native has had an impressive year, ending the 2012 regular season with an 18-5 record having played every match at the No. 1 singles spot for the Broncos. Le was also named WCC Player of the Month in March after stringing together a 10-match winning streak. In addition to her honors on the court, Le was named to the WCC All-Academic First Team as she maintains a 3.81 GPA in computer engineering. "Katie has worked really hard over the two years she's been at Santa Clara. She came in as a great player and has improved greatly since she's been here," said Bronco head coach Ben Cabell. "The whole team is really proud of her accomplishments, and we know she will continue to thrive over the next couple of years." Visit the Santa Clara Broncos' website for more information on Le and SCU's Women's tennis. Share


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Generally, when a hot water heater is leaking, it needs to be replaced. Over time, the minerals naturally occurring in your water will create deposits or corrosion that can crack the glass lining of the water heater tank. Note if your tank is self-cleaning or not; water heaters with self-cleaning tanks should last longer and are less-susceptible to glass cracks and leaks.
If your water heater is leaking from one of the connections or valves, it may be repairable. So it's important to note where your heater is leaking when assessing if a repair or replacement is appropriate for your situation.
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(HealthDay News) — For women with operable breast cancer, moderate immunohistochemical expression of human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2 (2+) without amplification of HER-2 (HER-2 2+/HER-2−) is an adverse prognostic factor, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in The Oncologist.
Valentina Rossi, M.D., from the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment in Candiolo, Italy, and colleagues compared the clinical outcomes of 1,150 women (median age, 58 years) with operable breast cancer who were not receiving adjuvant trastuzumab. Patients were stratified according to a common HER-2 testing algorithm.
Of the women, 40 percent were considered HER-2 0+; 39 percent were HER-2 1+; 10 percent were HER-2 2+/HER-2−; and 11 percent were HER-2+ (3+ or HER-2+) by fluorescence in situ hybridization. The researchers found that, on multivariate analysis, a HER-2 2+/HER-2− status correlated with worse disease-free survival, compared with a HER-2 0 or 1+ status. A HER-2 2+/HER-2− status showed a time-dependent effect on the probability of disease-free survival, with an initial advantage that lessened every year by a factor of 1.649, compared with a HER-2+ status.
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"A HER-2 2+/HER-2−status is an adverse prognostic factor in patients with operable breast cancer," the authors write. "Because of suggestions from randomized trials that the benefits of adjuvant trastuzumab may not be limited to patients with HER-2+ tumors, patients with a HER-2 2+/HER-2−status are ideal candidates for studies testing this hypothesis."
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.


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Mary Plantation spans 7 1/2 acres of fertile river ground with groves of ancient oaks twisted and bended through time as if they were speaking the untold stories of the love and life they witnessed through their centuries. Sitting quietly, one can hear the distant echoes of the past and feel a heartfelt devotion to Mary where many souls labored, lived and loved. Mary is undergoing a wonderful transformation with the recent addition of a beautiful meandering walking trail circling the plantation grounds and a charming wedding chapel.
Mary Plantation is located about 22 miles downriver of New Orleans on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in the city of Braithwaite in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The unique name of the parish is taken from the Indian word "piakimin" for persimmon. Just upriver of Mary is English Turn, a landmark bend in the Mississippi river.
Whether it's an elegant garden wedding and reception amidst the breathtaking grove of ancient oaks, or a simple ceremony in charming Mary Chapel, Mary Plantation is truly a romantic, fairytale setting. Whether you're considering an intimate or extravagant affair, the staff of Mary Plantation will work with you to plan and create the plantation wedding of your dreams.
Spanning nearly ten acres of fertile river ground, Mary stands proudly in an enchanting grove of ancient oaks. Alhough Mary is located just 22 miles downriver of New Orleans, you'll feel you've been taken to a far away world and another time.
Mary's history dates back two centuries and is the oldest structure in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Early records of Mary date back to 1723. She is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is recorded with the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Mary Plantation is available as a party and event venue. Whether it's a corporate meeting, a romantic get-away, a Louisiana Crawish boil or family reunion. – Mary and her beautiful grounds set the stage for a truly memorable event.


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Just Like in Fan Fiction, Dustin Hoffman Kissed a One Direction Guy Last Night
Five members of a tiny twink army, known to most as One Direction, were on The Late Show With David Letterman last night. They were pretty humble, albeit kind of boring, during their sit down with Dave. But the show's most exciting moment was their entrance when fellow guest Dustin Hoffman accompanied them to the stage. Left with nowhere to sit, Hoffman sat on the lap of 1D's Niall Horan.
Then he gave him a really exaggerated fake kiss.
Not exciting for you? Well it was certainly exciting for Niall. He was immediately taken back to the day at the beach. That day, yes. Liam had taken him to the shore on his family trip. They were closest in the group at the time. "C'mon we're both a little stressed with this whole new fame thing, let's get away," Liam had said.
So Niall had followed him to the beach. He was always following Liam. When they got into the water, Liam pulled Niall close and said "It's so freezing," through his chattering teeth. And just like Dustin Hoffman said last night on the couch, Liam whispered, "I'm going to kiss you on the mouth, okay?"
And Niall said yes, knowing just how jealous his friends would be, especially Harry...


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How to Kill IE11 - What the Deaths of IE6 and IE8 Tell Us About Killing IE | Mike Sherov
An interesting look at the mortality causes for Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 8, and what they can tell us for the hoped-for death of Internet Explorer 11.
I disagree with the conclusion (that we should actively block IE11—barring any good security reasons, I don't think that's defensible), but I absolutely agree that we shouldn't be shipping polyfills in production just for IE11. Give it your HTML. Give it your CSS. Withhold modern JavaScript. If you're building with progressive enhancement (and you are, right?), then giving IE11 users a sub-par experience is absolutely fine …it's certainly better than blocking them completely.


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St. Paul, MN--Larry Pogemiller, Director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE), is on the Iron Range today to discuss Governor Mark Dayton's budget recommendations for higher education with students.
Funding for higher education is a key component of the Governor's budget proposal, including the largest increase in direct aid to students in over 25 years, funding that will make college more affordable for over 100,000 Minnesotans.
"As I talk to students across the state, I repeatedly hear the same message: they believe a postsecondary education is valuable and necessary, but the high cost is a heavy burden," said Pogemiller. "The provisions in the Governor's budget will help lower the cost of college for thousands of Minnesota students, as well as improve quality and learning opportunities."
Dayton is proposing a balanced $240 million investment for postsecondary education, the largest percentage increase for any area of the state budget. His recommended $80 million for the Minnesota State Grant program expands eligibility for over 5,000 additional students, including over 2,000 in the middle-income range. Every state grant recipient will receive an increase in the size of their award.
His budget also helps hold the line on tuition increases, invests in internships and state-of-the art equipment and will help retain high-quality faculty.
Pogemiller is meeting with area education and workforce leaders, touring Iron Range Engineering at Mesabi Community College and visiting Nashwauk High School to learn more about the Applied Learning Institute Program.
On Thursday morning he is participating in a regional student forum, with students from five area colleges participating.
"Over the past decade, tuition and fees have increased by more than three times the rate of inflation and family income, we have the third-highest student debt rate in the country for a bachelor's degree, and an ever-increasing number of jobs are requiring some level of postsecondary completion," said Pogemiller. "The Governor's support for both the public and private benefit of post-secondary education and training is crucial and timely."
Director Pogemiller has been meeting with students across the state since Governor Dayton rolled out his budget in January. Upcoming visits include St. Cloud, Marshall, Rochester and Duluth.
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< Games
|File:Games powermanga ss powermanga06.jpg
|An Arcade Shoot'Em'Up Game!
Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. It runs in 320x200 or 640x400 pixels, with Window mode or full screen and support for 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bpp. As you go through the levels, you will destroy enemy spaceships and bosses, collect gems to power up your ship and get special powers, helpers and weapons. It uses SDL to generate the gameplay.
General Information
- Name: powermanga
- Official URL: http://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/
- Type: Scrolling Shooter (Shot'em'Up!)
- Repository: Fedora Extras
- License: GPL
- Download Size: Approximately 6.3MB
- Installed Size: 15.5MB
Installing and Running
Powermanga is available under the Fedora Extras Community repository, and can be installed using the yum tool. To install, either use a front-end tool (like yumex) or issue the following command in a terminal as root:
yum install powermanga
This will grab the game and all its dependencies from the Internet, so you need to be connected to the Internet. After installing, you can run the program under the menu:
Applications -> Games -> Arcade -> Powermanga
Or press ALT+F2 on your desktop (or go to a terminal like
gnome-terminal and
konsole), type
powermanga, and press Enter.
Game Options
Some extra options for gameplay are available within the command-line method. You can execute these options with
powermanga --option, where
option is one of the following:
--easy- Set game to easy, giving more bonuses (colored gems/powerups)
--hard- Set game to hard, giving less bonuses (colored gems/powerups)
--nosync- Disable game timer, affecting the game speed
--window- Windows mode (full screen mode is default)
--help- List some more options
After starting the game, you command a spaceship and has to destroy all other ships that appear on the screen as you go. Use the
arrow keys to move the ship, and
space key for shooting.
As you destroy other ships, gems will appear. When you get (touching) a gem, each color does something to your spaceship:
- Green Gems increase your upgrade options by one. The upgrade options are on the right side of the screen.
- Red Gems increase your upgrade options by two.
- Blue Gems duplicates or quadruplicates score when you destroy ships.
- Pink Gems increase your energy. If you energy is already full, it will give you a mega-blast which destroys all enemies on the screen.
- Yellow gems increase the number of protectors on your ship by one. When you're already with 6 (max) protectors on your ship, and you get another yellow gem, you get a special weapon.
The game also has bosses that you have to fight. Each 3 levels you encounter one. Stay prepared!
Game Controls
There are some in-game options accessible by pressing these keyboard keys:2
CTRL+S- Enable/Disable music
CTRL+Q- Finish the current play (having to start again)
CTRL+A- About the game
F10- Quit the game
P- Pause/Unpause the game
F- Toggle full screen mode on and off
- Try to get a big upgrade in the beginning (unless you're in hard mode): upgrade your ship (last upgrade option) and try to get the first missile upgrade. Your shots you cause much more damage and you'll get more green/red gems to update further more!
- When you see a pink gem and you have full energy, try to get as many enemies/asteroids as possible on the screen and then grab the gem. It will destroy everything and you'll likely get more gems!
- When you do a spaceship upgrade (last upgrade option), it downgrades all your upgrade options by one.


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Sankra (Zion) Mennonite Church (Madhya Pradesh, India)
Sankra (Zion) Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located in Madhya Pradesh, 18 miles west of Dhamtari, a member of the India Mennonite Conference, began as a mission in 1908, under M. C. Lapp, P. A. Friesen, and G. J. Lapp, and was at first called the Zion Evangelistic Station. The first Christians came from other mission stations. Worship services were conducted on the veranda of the bungalow. In 1912 the Malguzar of Sankra offered a small plot of land in the hamlet for a church building, and in 1913 a small meetinghouse was built. The Christian community grew rapidly during the famine of 1920-21 when many people came to this and other mission stations for relief and responded to the appeals of the Gospel. A new and larger church was built in 1925 at the mission station, a mile from the village. Under Dr. Friesen a larger medical dispensary with an operating room and several wards was built in 1926. The missionaries also conducted roadside medical clinics. Soon after the Christian community was established at Sankra an elementary school for the children of the community was opened. The government school was some distance away. The children received more kindly consideration in the church schools. In 1946 the name appeared in the Yearbook (Scottdale) as Zion. In 1957 the membership was 102, with O. P. Lal and S. Paul Miller as ministers.
|George J Lapp
|Date Published
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Lapp, George J. "Sankra (Zion) Mennonite Church (Madhya Pradesh, India)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 2 Oct 2023. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sankra_(Zion)_Mennonite_Church_(Madhya_Pradesh,_India)&oldid=134589.
APA style
Lapp, George J. (1959). Sankra (Zion) Mennonite Church (Madhya Pradesh, India). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 2 October 2023, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sankra_(Zion)_Mennonite_Church_(Madhya_Pradesh,_India)&oldid=134589.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 417. All rights reserved.
©1996-2023 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


text: Facebook today "re-open-sourced" the Thrift binary communication protocol with its own internal branch of Thrift, which is designed to provide a new set of core features and crank up performance.Facebook Software Engineer Dave Watson explains that the company always wants to choose the best tools and implementations for its backend services, regardless of programming language. By using programming languages on a case-by-case basis, it can optimize performance, ease and speed of development, leverage existing libraries and so on. "To support this practice, in 2006 we created Thrift, a cross-language framework for handling RPC [remote procedure calls], including serialization\/deserialization, protocol transport and server creation," Watson says. "Since then, usage of Thrift at Facebook has continued to grow. Today, it powers more than 100 services used in production, most of which are written in C++, Java, PHP or Python." After a year of internal use, Facebook released Thrift to the open source community, where development of Apache Thrift continues. But, as Watson notes, while Apache Thrift gained wide use outside Facebook, IT organizations using it ran into performance concerns and issues separating the serialization and transport logic. Inside Facebook, IT was running into similar issues as it gained experience running Thrift infrastructure. Watson says the team realized that Thrift was missing a core set of features, and that a lot more could be done for performance. "For example, one issue we ran into was that internal service owners were constantly reinventing the same features again and again\u2014such as transport compression, authentication and counters \u2014 to track the health of their servers. Engineers were also spending a lot of time trying to eke more performance from their services." "When Thrift was originally conceived, most services were relatively straightforward in design," Watson adds. "A Web server would make a Thrift request to some backend service, and the service would respond. But as Facebook grew, so did the complexity of the services. Making a Thrift request was no longer so simple. Not only did we have tiers of services (services calling other services), but we also started seeing unique future demands for each service, such as the various compression or trace\/debug needs.Over time, Watson says, it became obvious that Thrift was in need of an upgrade for some of our specific use cases. In particular, we sought to improve performance for asynchronous workloads, and we wanted a better way to support per-request features." The end result is fbthrift, which Facebook released today on GitHub. Watson says the largest changes are in the new C++ code generator (available as the new target language cpp2), as well as header transport and protocol changes for several languages, including C++, Python and Java. He adds that a number of services that have moved to the new cpp2-generated code have achieved up to a 50 percent decrease in latency and large decreases in memory footprint. Watson notes that it doesn't reflect all Apache Thrift changes, but the team did track the upstream changes closely, and he adds that Facebook hopes to work with the Apache Thrift maintainers to incorporate the work on fbthrift.Thor Olavsrud covers IT Security, Big Data, Open Source, Microsoft Tools and Servers for CIO.com. Follow Thor on Twitter @ThorOlavsrud. \nFollow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.


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By Kim Yuthana
Phnom Penh Post
OPPOSITION parliamentarian Yont Tharo has sought help from National Assembly President Heng Samrin and Prime Minister Hun Sen in resolving the eight-month old case of his son's killing.
The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) parliamentarian said Thursday that despite the fact that a warrant was issued in December for the suspect in the case – 30-year-old Bun Vimol, an anti-drug police officer at the Ministry of Interior – local police had yet to take any action.
"The police have not seemed to pay any attention to arresting the suspect at all, and as a result, the suspect walks in and out of the Ministry of Interior freely," Yont Tharo wrote last week in a letter that he said had been forwarded by Heng Samrin to Hun Sen.
In the December warrant, investigating judge Yeith Molin charged Bun Vimol with intentional murder in connection with an August 2009 traffic altercation.
In that incident, 25-year-old Yont Thauron was shot and killed and three of his friends were wounded at a noodle stall near Daun Penh district's Wat Botum after a road accident.
Yont Thauron and his friends were driving in a Lexus SUV when they collided with a number of motorbikes near Wat Botum park, and the shooting occurred minutes afterwards.
"I request that Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen kindly help push the police to follow the warrant, arrest the perpetrator and bring him to face the law so that justice can be found for the families of all the victims," Yont Tharo said Thursday.
In September of last year, SRP parliamentarians sent a joint letter to Minister of Interior Sar Kheng to urge that action be taken on the case.
Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth said Thursday that police have received the warrant and have been hunting for the suspect, but that their efforts have been unsuccessful.
"There has not been any sign of the suspect so far," Touch Naruth said.


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LASU Resumption Date 2023/2024 | Lagos State University, Ojo
LASU resumption date 2023 is out. The Lagos State University, Ojo has announced the resumption date for the 2023/2024 academic session.
On this page, we will share with you all you need to know regarding the Lagos State University, Ojo approved resumption date for both freshers and returning students.
A great number of the students of LASU, returning students and freshers alike have been asking when the university will resume its new academic session. It is on this note that we've decided to write this article so that you'll be duly informed about the institution's resumption.
LASU Resumption Date 2023
The approved date for resumption of academic activities at LASU is October 24th, 2023. The school management has instructed that all freshers and returning students must resume fully on the said date.
Oftentimes, the date for resumption might be changed due to certain circumstances, for example; ASUU Strike, public holidays, etc. so bear in mind that if for any reason this resumption date is changed, we will ensure to keep you updated on time.
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"Erv was a professional 6 day bike racer who competed at Madison Square Garden, Chicago Coliseum, Montreal and Toronto, Canada. During WWII, he parachuted into Normandy Beach on D Day."
On March 5 of this year, Erwin "Erv" Pesek was just one of many lives memorialized in the fine print of the death notices pages in the Chicago Tribune. But compressed into the paid notice word limit was that one-two sucker punch of accomplishment, offered in a near vacuum of context. The D-Day note adds a touch of bad-ass action-hero detail to a historical event memorialized multiple times a year. But the first sentence is less familiar, offering a taste of fleeting fame and popularity in a long forgotten event: the six-day bike race.
Six-day races come from the same era as dance marathons and flagpole sitting, though the cycling events were more athletic challenge than endurance fad. In early days, a single cyclist would ride for as many hours as his body and mind would allow, prompting a delirium by the end that drew the scorn of an 1897 New York Times editorial-"An athletic contest in which the participants 'go queer' in their heads, and strain their powers until their faces become hideous with the tortures that rack them, is not sport, it is brutality."
The growing outcry against the dangers of a solo six-day race prompted New York City and Chicago laws in 1899 forbidding cyclists from racing for more than 12 hours a day. To circumvent those rules, promoters paired up riders into two-man teams, at least one of whom was required to be on the track at all times while the other man rested or ate in small, square huts set up on the inside of the bowl. The winners were determined by the number of laps completed by each team at the end of the week, combined with a separate tally of points accumulated in two-mile sprints during peak times to spice up the proceedings.
In this year's Tour de France, competitors will cover nearly 2,200 miles over 23 days. In a typical six-day race, each team would cover up to 2,800 miles in less than a week, during 146 hours of continuous riding. However, in the six-day race, the scenery wasn't as good: instead of French country roads, it was lap after lap after lap around a banked wooden track constructed in the middle of a smoke-filled stadium. The over-arching event was punctuated by matinee and evening sprints in front of full arenas, with exhausted racers from around the world going all out for cash and prizes while jazz bands set up inside the oval accelerated their tempo to match the-occasionally literal-breakneck speed.
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"As far as I'm concerned this is the roughest sport and the toughest sport because you had to train so hard," Pesek said at his Cicero home in 2008. "When you're riding against foreigners up there, they're out to get you and you're out to get them. You can do anything you want if you don't get caught."
Pesek was 90 years old, but age hadn't done much to diminish a guy his peers considered one of the toughest on the six-day circuit . In the basement was a stationary bike-Pesek's wife made him stop riding on the streets after heart troubles set in-and two red trunks filled with racing bikes dating back to the 1930's. The interview that day started with a lot of short sentences and coaxing interjections from Pesek's wife Blanche. But as we leafed together through dusty books of photographs and race programs, the rider once known as "Mr. 13" (a number he would later wear on his back while air-dropping into Normandy), opened up about the lost history of the six-day races.
The heyday of the six-day bike race spanned roughly the first half of the 20th century, and for a time was in the upper tier of the American sports landscape. In the four corners of the old Chicago Stadium, faux-Greek sculptures depicted the premier indoor athletes of the day: a boxer, a track runner, a hockey player, and a bicyclist. Though outdoor road races were king at the turn of the century, promoters figured out that track racing on a wooden, banked, 1/6-mile oval could sell more tickets. Instead of watching the competitors whiz by once from the side of a street, people could pack into arenas and see them run thousands of laps.
"You're racing all day long, you're relieving each other," Pesek remembered. "You would get an hour or two where you could have meals, but there was a rider on the track all the time. You only had sprints when people were in the building. There would be the matinee, then they close the place down, open the windows, air it out, and get ready for the evening session. We'd have dinner, get cleaned up, get ready for evening races. A lot of times after about 4 am, newspapermen would come in to check if you were still riding down there."
"It was very exciting, it was very fast; it wasn't like roller derby where it was phony knock-you-down," said Oscar Wastyn, Jr., whose father built custom bikes for many of the premier racers out of the family's store (which still sits, 100 years after opening, in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood). "It was a dangerous damn sport. These guys were flying, and when they went down they got hurt. The hair would just stand up on your arm. The speed was awesome, the handling was amazing, they were riding right on top of each other. There were probably 40 bike riders going 35 to 38 miles per hour, inches apart, when it came by it was unbelievable. If somebody made a bad move, you were taking a lot of guys down."
Pesek was one of many Chicago racers who came up in the 30's in the city's thriving amateur sports scene, with rival clubs from the Catholic Youth Organization and neighborhood groups sponsored by local politicians facing off in Wednesday night meets under the lights at the Humboldt Park Bike Bowl. Constructed from thousands of thin wooden planks by the Chicago Park District, the bowl stood near the southwest corner of the West Side park with grandstands that could hold thousands of people flanking either side. When meets weren't being held, professional Chicago racers used the bowl to practice for the lucrative six-day races, typically held in winter on temporary tracks built inside venues that would later become famous for other sports.
"Madison Square Garden and Chicago Stadium were built for six-day racing and hockey at the time," Wastyn said. "Basketball was like a nothing. The showgirls and all the stars when they closed their venues, they came to the bike race, they loved it. One time Argentino Rocca in New York came in with two prettiest blondes you'd ever seen in your life, sat down and said-boom-$500 for a sprint, and the place went wild."
* * *
When I talked to six-day racer Bill Jacoby, he was 86 and still fit enough to take a few laps every so often on the velodrome in Northbrook, made of smooth asphalt instead of splintery wooden boards. Hearing his stories, it's kind of a miracle he could even walk. For $100 a day (not a bad take in 1930's dollars), riders drove themselves to the brink, and weren't afraid to get physical with their competitors.
"I think the bike game was good for me. I enjoyed every bit of it," Jacoby said. "Three broken collarbones, a couple cracked ribs, a chipped pelvic bone, thousands of splinters, and the whole bit."
In one picture, he points out a smudge and says, "This little speck here is part of my scalp, with part of my hair attached to it." He got stitched up at the hospital and rode the rest of the race wearing a "turban."
I asked Jacoby about the worst injury he ever saw in a bike race.
"A guy named Mike Apt went over the fence on Friday night at the Humboldt Park Bowl, the top part. Fell about 20 feet. He got hurt and didn't come back."
Did that happen often?
"Occasionally, yeah. You would bump a wheel and before you know it, it's…" Jacoby smacked his hands together with a crack.
Wastyn showed me one graphic photo of an injured rider named William "Torchy" Peden, a Canadian with a shock of red hair who was one of the top six-day riders, and remembered witnessing the crash as a kid from his father's bike mechanic station on the infield.
"The banking was about 47 degrees, and Torchy was at top. He was a big guy just going a little bit too slow, his tires gave up, and he came sideways down the track on his right hip. They had to carry him out, he had splinters in his ass…you can't imagine. They had to take him up and get a doctor, had to pull half the wood off of him. There was blood everywhere."
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As the 1940's began, the Chicago area had produced several promising young riders for the six-day circuit, including Pesek, Bill Jacoby, Ed Carfagnini and Sears Taylor. But their professional careers-and in Jacoby's case, a spot on the U.S. team for the canceled 1940 Olympics-were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.
Some cyclists, Carfagnini for one, didn't come back. For the surviving racers, professional cycling attempted to regain its position in the American sports scene, but could never return to the heights of the pre-war era when top cyclists like Australian Alf Goullet made more money each year than Babe Ruth. Attendances dwindled, promoters lost interest and races were pushed out of stadiums by the rising popularity of basketball and hockey. The Humboldt Park Bike Bowl burned down in a 1946 fire, which a 1962 Tribune article blamed on "hoboes who built a fire to keep warm."
"The war basically killed the whole thing," Wastyn said. "It's really a shame because it was this fantastic sport."
The sport found increased winter competition from the new National Basketball Association, and stadium owners such as the infamous "Dollar" Bill Wirtz in Chicago were no longer thrilled about renting their venue out for an entire week to the six-day racers.
But some cyclists stuck around, unwilling to drop out of the race. Jacoby lost his desk job at Schwinn when he defied his boss' orders and returned to racing during a brief revival in the mid-1950's. Pesek rode on into the late 50's, including a race in 1959 at the New York City Armory where he was "given the hook" by a rival racer and suffered a horrific crash. Bleeding from his head and with track burns up his legs and arms, Pesek was sent to the hospital against his will, then tried to re-enter the race upon his release the next morning. When he was unable to walk a straight line for a race official, he was disqualified. It was his last race.
"The damn bike game died," Jacoby said. "It was just one of those things."
The six-day races live on in the diminished form of a race named after one of the premier six-day venues, the Madison. A men's cycling event at the Olympics from 2000 to 2008, the Madison features a similar format of two-man teams whizzing around a velodrome, but only for a mere 200 laps completed in around one hour. In Europe, some "six-day" races come slightly closer to recreating the endurance challenge (and party atmosphere) of the original format, but teams only race in daily eight-hour sessions.
At the time I conducted these interviews, the last few American survivors of the pre-war bike-racing circuit met every six months or so at a restaurant in suburban Chicago and swapped old stories. Wastyn, who decades ago would stay up late as a kid at his father's shop listening to those same tales, now organized the gatherings, sending out invitations as far as California even as the numbers got "lower and lower," he said. For those that remained, the stories kept the sport's forgotten heyday alive just a little bit longer, even as the group chose a name that indicated their marathon was coming to a close.
"One of most famous cyclists of all time, Norman Hill, he told me The Bell-Lappers was the most appropriate name for our group," Wastyn said. "In cycling, the bell lap indicates the final lap, and some of us are getting closer to the finish line, he said. It was pretty heavy stuff, but that's how he related to it. That's how he saw the name, the Bell-Lappers."
Republished from The Classical.
Rob Mitchum writes about science and music for the University of Chicago, Pitchfork, and others. He tweets @robmitchum. Photos from Classic Cycles.
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Vail Pass recpath opened Thursday
VAIL — The Colorado Department of Transportation will open the Vail bike path from East Vail, mile marker 180, to Copper Mountain, mile marker 195, today at 2 p.m.
Despite late spring snowfall, crews have worked daily to clear the path so it could open by Memorial Day.
The Department of Transportation urges cyclists to ride with caution as the path still has a few icy spots and more ice may form if the area receives colder temperatures or inclement weather.
In addition to the work of Department of Transportation maintenance crews, engineering crews are preparing for a project to begin in late May or early June that will resurface the path from Copper to the summit of Vail Pass and will repair a timber bridge to help improve safety for riders.
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